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• Title:A new & accurate map of the North Pole, with all the countries hitherto discovered situated near or adjacent to it as well as some others more remote : drawn from the latest and best authorities and regulated by astronom[ica]l observat[io]ns / by Eman. Bowen.
  
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• Variant Title:New and accurate map of the North Pole
  
• Author/Creator:Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:[London] : [Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward [and 13 others]], [1747]
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3270 1747 .B68
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/u?/coll0803-2,15
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3270 1747 .B68
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:North Pole--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Northern Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Arctic regions--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Northwest Passage--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:Scale [ca. 1:21,500,000] (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--N 50°).
  1 map : hand colored ; 41 cm in diam., on sheet 38 x 42 cm
  
• Local note:UBC Library has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_38. The Library has both uncoloured and hand-coloured copies.
  
• Notes:Relief shown pictorially.
  Includes descriptive notes and ornamental cartouche.
  "Meridian of London."
  Scale determined by using graticule method.
  In lower margin: No. 110.
  Detached from: A complete system of geography ... / by Emanuel Bowen ... London : Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward [and 13 others], 1747.
  
• Cited in:Kershaw, K.A. Early printed maps of Canada 419