"A Map of Old Greenland or Oster Bygd & Wester Bydg... [on sheet with] A Map of the Islands of Ferro or Farro... [and] A Draught of the Whirl-Pool on the South East of Sumbo Rocks... [and] An Improved Map of Iceland", Bowen, Emanuel

This attractive copper engraving includes four maps of islands in the North Atlantic on one sheet. Of particular interest is the depiction of a spurious "whirlpool" off the southern coast of Suouroy Island (Faroe Islands), which is also depicted in the map of the Faroe Islands at lower left. Mt. Hecla is depicted as an active volcano in the map of Iceland, and a note in the map of Greenland indicates "the coast is dangerous of access, because of floating and fixed mountains of ice."

References: McCorkle (18th c. Geography Books) #17-41 (Vol II); Shirley (BL Atlases) T.BOW-2a #71.

Condition: B+

Light toning with a tiny hole along the neatline at left and a few damp stains confined to the sheet edges.