Nov 3, 2008 10:00 EST

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  Lot 3071
 

3071

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Senex, John. [A New General Atlas].
[London: various publishers, 1721]. Half calf, marbled sides. 20 3/4 inches (21 cm). 7 ff. engraved with the arms of the subscribers (on 15 pp., verso last leaf blank); followed by 33 (of 34) double-page engraved maps and plans on guards, all but the city views hand-colored in outline. Spine perished, boards detached, marbled paper on boards largely lacking. Within, generally a clean copy, although some maps are creased at the gutter, and some few have taped repairs. Three of the four maps of American interest are present, but the map of the Mississippi is lacking, and that for the Isthmus is creased. No title-page is present.
The map of Africa has a later broadsheet with a hand-colored view of St. Helena attached.

Sold for $13,750
Estimated at $6,000 - $9,000

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[MAPS]
Senex, John. [A New General Atlas].
[London: various publishers, 1721]. Half calf, marbled sides. 20 3/4 inches (21 cm). 7 ff. engraved with the arms of the subscribers (on 15 pp., verso last leaf blank); followed by 33 (of 34) double-page engraved maps and plans on guards, all but the city views hand-colored in outline. Spine perished, boards detached, marbled paper on boards largely lacking. Within, generally a clean copy, although some maps are creased at the gutter, and some few have taped repairs. Three of the four maps of American interest are present, but the map of the Mississippi is lacking, and that for the Isthmus is creased. No title-page is present.
The map of Africa has a later broadsheet with a hand-colored view of St. Helena attached.

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