"1789 World Map" Print
- Contributor: Carington Bowles
- Year: 1789
- Themes: Maps
- Art Styles: Vintage Art
- Horizontal Landscape Orientation
- Art Type: Fine art print, canvas, framed wall art, giclee print
& canvas
- All canvases ship ready to hang on 3/4 in. wood stretchers (2
in. for Heavy Duty), with the exception of unstretched canvas
Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe
: laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries
particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron,
Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators,
illustrated with a variety of useful projections and
representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved
astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with
an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and
interesting phenomena in the universal system.