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Bowen: Antique Map of Garden of Eden & Noah's Ark
Bowen: Antique Map of Garden of Eden & Noah's Ark
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Title/Content of Map: 'A correct map of the countries surrounding the Garden of Eden, or Paradise, with the course of Noah's Ark during the Flood' The map covers the Old Testament biblical lands from the Caucasus south to the Persian Gulf, including parts of present day Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Kuwait, Armenia, Azerbaijan & Georgia. The Black Sea and Caspian seas are marked. Noah is indicated to have built the Ark at Cyparisson, near Mosul in present-day Iraq, before piloting it to Jawat, near Baku in present day Azerbaijan, and then on to a curiously misplaced Mount Ararat, shown on the map to be in present-day western Iran (it is in fact in eastern Turkey).

  • Date Printed: 1785
  • Image Size: Approx 30.5 x 19.0cm, 12 x 7.5 inches (Medium)
  • Type: Antique copperplate map with original outline colouring
  • Condition: Good; suitable for framing.
  • Verso: There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is plain
  • Artist/Cartographer/Engraver: Thomas Bowen
  • Provenance: "Whole, genuine and complete works of Flavius Josephius, the learned and authentic Jewish Historian and celebrated warrior.", by George Henry Maynard LL. D. [and] the Rev. Edward Kimpton. London, printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Paternoster Row

    Emanuel Bowen (1694- 1767) was an English map engraver, who worked as a geographer for George II of England and Louis XV of France. His attractive maps are recognizable by his habit of filling every corner and space of the map with jottings and footnotes, both historical and topographical.

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  • Condition
    Good; suitable for framing.
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    Bowen: Antique Map of Garden of Eden & Noah's Ark

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