South America
Corrected from the Observations Communicated to the Royal Society's of London & Paris. By John Senex. To Edmund Halley. LLD. Savilian Professor of Geometry in Oxford and Fellow of the Royal Society. This Map corrected from His own Discoveries In gratefull Acknowledgement of his Ready assistance to Encourage this Designe is Humbly Dedicated.
Stock Code 108448
John Senex, at the Globe against St Dunstans Church, Fleetstreet, London 1710 [-1728].
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South America . John Senex (1678-1740) was one of the foremost mapmakers in England in the early eighteenth century. He was also a surveyor, globemaker, and geographer. As a young man, he was apprenticed to Robert Clavell, a bookseller. He worked with several mapmakers over the course of his career, including Jeremiah Seller and Charles Price. In 1728, Senex was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, a rarity for mapmakers. The Fellowship reflects his career-long association as engraver to the Society and publisher of maps by Edmund Halley, among other luminaries. He is best known for his English Atlas (1714), which remained in print until the 1760s. After his death in 1740 his widow, Mary, carried on the business until 1755. Thereafter, his stock was acquired by William Herbert and Robert Sayer (maps) and James Ferguson (globes).
Double-page engraved map on 2 sheets joined, with full contemporary hand-colouring. Size: 960 mm by 653 mm, sheet size: 962 by 680 mm.
Some light soiling to folds and outer margins, tear to top and bottom margins, both repaired. Fold repaired.
Double-page engraved map on 2 sheets joined, with full contemporary hand-colouring. Size: 960 mm by 653 mm, sheet size: 962 by 680 mm.
Some light soiling to folds and outer margins, tear to top and bottom margins, both repaired. Fold repaired.
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