The Province of Artois
and the Country Adjacent by William de l'Isle Geog[raph]er. Member of the Royal Academy of Science in Paris. To the Right Honorable Sr. Richard Temple Baronet Lieuetenant General of Her Majesties Forces This Map is humbly Dedicated and Presented by J. Senex.
Stock Code 109310
London John Senex at the Globe against St. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet London. [1710 -1728].
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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).
Engraved map, with full contemporary hand-colouring, size: 485 mm x 598 mm, sheet size: 517 x 685 mm.
Spit at fold to right margin.
Engraved map, with full contemporary hand-colouring, size: 485 mm x 598 mm, sheet size: 517 x 685 mm.
Spit at fold to right margin.
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