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A NEW MAP OF THE EASTERN
PARTS OF ASIA MINOR,
largely taken as Also of Syria,
Armenia, Mesopotamia &c. .
WELLS, Edward
Oxford, 1712
38.1 x 50.8 cm.

Decorative map of the region from
Cyprus and the Eastern
Mediterranean and the Holy Land to the Caspian Sea.
Old Coloring…
Edward Wells Biography
Edward Wells was a Church of England clergyman and advocate for education. He
published prolifically, including several atlases of the ancient and contemporary world.
Wells was the son of a vicar and entered Christ Church, Oxford in late 1686. He graduated
BA in 1690, MA in 1693, and worked as a tutor at his college from 1691 to 1702. Then, he
entered into a living at Cotesbach, Leicestershire, from where he continued to publish his
many works. He attained the degrees of BD and DD in 1704, after he was already at
Cotesbach.
From roughly 1698 onward, Wells wrote many sermons, books, and atlases. He focused
on catechismal and pastoral works, as well as educational books. For example, some of
his first works were mathematics texts for young gentlemen, which included how to use
globes and determine latitude and longitude. He also translated classical and Christian
texts, sometimes adding geographical annotations.
His descriptive geographies were not overly original works, but they were popular in their
time. First, he produced a Treatise of Antient and Present Geography in 1701; it went on to
four more editions. Next was a Historical Geography of the New Testament (1708),
accompanied by a Historical Geography of the Old Testament (1711-12).