An Accurate map of Cambridgeshire divided into its hundreds [map] : drawn from the best authorities, illustrated with historical extracts, relative to the natural produce of the county, as also of the antiquity of the university, and the foundation of all its colleges and halls; the trade and manufactures of the chief towns &c. describing also the church livings and charity schools, with other improvements / by Emanl. Bowen Geog[raphe]r to His late Majesty.

Record ID: 
292972
Accession number: 
MA 665.18
Author: 
Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767, cartographer.
Published: 
London : printed for Rob[er]t Sayer & John Bennett, No. 53, Fleet Street John Bowles, No. 13, Corrhill, & Carrington Bowles, No. 69, St. Pauls church Yard as the Act directs, 1777.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description: 
1 map : col. ; 57.4 x 43 cm
Notes: 

With red dots painted at 13 sites (matching locations mentioned in the penances of MA 665.1-14, and Cambridge).
Map has been cut into four quarters and mounted onto four subsequent pages in the volume.
Part of a collection of 14 penances enjoined upon members of Protestant congregations in the diocese of Ely (MA 665-1-14); 5 maps of Cambridgeshire (MA 665.15-19); and 1 leaf on Ely from Philemon Holland's English translation of William Camden's Britain (MA 665.20). Items are cataloged individually in 20 records.

Summary: 

Showing county boundaries (hand colored with yellow, blue, pink or green wash), rivers, parks and settlements. Relief shown pictorially. With a view of men trapping fish in the lower left.

Provenance: 
Purchased by J.W. Ford of Enfield Old Park at a public auction; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
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