Bowles's New and Accurate Map of the World, or Terrestrial Globe

Carington Bowles

ca. 1780

Shows routes of several 18th century circumnavigators. Includes numerous astronomical inset maps and text, including: Solar System, Northern Celestial Hemisphere, Southern Celestial Hemisphere, Astronomical Latitude and Longitude Analemma, Chart of the World According to Mercator's Projection, Selenography or a Map of the Moon, Vicissitude of Seasons Explained, and more.

The full title of the map is: 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 Phoenomena in the Universal System.

Originally printed on 4 sheets.