Published in the second edition of John Harris's 'Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels', first published without Bowen's maps in 1705. The map shows the known world, but assumes an uninterrupted eastern coastline of Australia. A note beneath the map states: "The Reader is desired to observe that Sir Francis Drake was the First Navigator who made the Circuit of the Globe: For tho' Magellan was First in that Design yet as he was unfortunately Killed at one of the Ladrone Islands, he cannot properly be intitled [sic] a Circumnavigator".

The mapmakers
Amongst Emanuel Bowen's first work were maps for George Willdey's 'Atlas of the World' (1717). There followed a period during which he engraved charts for some of the leading hydrographers of his day: Joseph Avery, Samuel Fearon and John Eyes, Nicholas Dobrée, and Murdoch Mackenzie. He also produced a prodigious number of maps for British periodicals. Significant maps that he subsequently published under his own name, include: 'A new and accurate map of South Wales … delineated from an actual survey and admeasurement by Eman. Bowen', (1729), a large six-sheet map, sold by subscription, mostly to local wealthy landowners.

In the early 1730s, Bowen took on two apprentices, Thomas Kitchin and Thomas Jefferys, both of whom would become pre-eminent map makers in their own right. There followed some large-scale maps of Norfolk and Huntingdonshire, 'A new and accurate map of England and Wales' (1734), maps for John Harris's 'Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca' (1744–8), as well as numerous atlases, including Bowen's 'Complete System of Geography' (1744–7), and 'Complete Atlas' (1752).