SENEX, John. G. De L'Isle
A Map of the Provostship and Vicounty of Paris
A Map of the Provostship and Vicounty of Paris
Drawn from a great number of particular Memoirs made according to the Observations of the Royal Academy of Sciences By G. De Lisle of the same Academy.
Stock Code 108633
London J. Senex, at the Globe over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street 1713
Paris
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).10Engraved map, with full contemporary hand-colouring, size: 490 mm x 627 mm, sheet size: 525 x 680 mm.
Light stain across fold.
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