Senex, John UNTITLED ATLAS. LONDON: MARY SENEX, [C.1738-1741] Large folio (685 x 535mm.), 34 engraved maps, 12 full-page, including Ancient Greece bound in 2 sheets, the rest double-page, catalogue of the maps pasted on inside front cover, and advertisement for works by Senex pasted on inside back cover, contemporary outline colour, contemporary half calf over boards, chart of Solar System and world map creased with loss, a few maps frayed and some split at lower folds, binding worn John Senex was one of the leading English mapmakers of his generation, in competition with Herman Moll His atlases were particularly successful. The map of Hungary marks battles fought in 1738, while the letterpress catalogue pasted on the rear end-paper bears Mary Senex's imprint (the earliest of seven such) and refers to "other Maps and Charts that were begun in Mr. Senex's Life-time [which] will be finished with all convenient Speed, according to his Drawings, and with the same Care as if under his immediate Inspection" - suggesting that the atlas was sold soon after his death on 30th December, 1740.
Senex, John UNTITLED ATLAS. LONDON: MARY SENEX, [C.1738-1741] Large folio (685 x 535mm.), 34 engraved maps, 12 full-page, including Ancient Greece bound in 2 sheets, the rest double-page, catalogue of the maps pasted on inside front cover, and advertisement for works by Senex pasted on inside back cover, contemporary outline colour, contemporary half calf over boards, chart of Solar System and world map creased with loss, a few maps frayed and some split at lower folds, binding worn John Senex was one of the leading English mapmakers of his generation, in competition with Herman Moll His atlases were particularly successful. The map of Hungary marks battles fought in 1738, while the letterpress catalogue pasted on the rear end-paper bears Mary Senex's imprint (the earliest of seven such) and refers to "other Maps and Charts that were begun in Mr. Senex's Life-time [which] will be finished with all convenient Speed, according to his Drawings, and with the same Care as if under his immediate Inspection" - suggesting that the atlas was sold soon after his death on 30th December, 1740.
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