1719 Set of 3 Antique Road Maps LONDON TO ABERYSTWYTH Wales Oxfordshire Senex

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Seller: Antique Paper Company, ASHFORD, Kent, United KingdomAntique Paper Company

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1719 Set of 3 original antique Road Maps titledTHE ROADfrom LONDON to ABERISTWTH (!) on the Sea Coast in Cardiganshire wherein are included the Roads both to Oxford and WorcesterA superb FIRST ISSUE very early set of 3roadmaps by John Senex Superb condition, especially being from the First Edition. Good margins, perfect for mounting and framing and with fine hand colouring. Overall size of each map approx23cm x 19cm.John Senex (1678-1740), was born in Ludlow. In 1695 he was apprenticed to the London bookseller Robert Clavell. He became a renowned engraved and seller of maps and globes and certainly one of the more respected cartographers of the 18th Century.Senex started his own business in 1702, working the London hotbed of cartographic creativity that was the Strand and then in Cornill until 1706. He formed a partnership with various map-makers including Jeremiah Seller and Charles Price who were the successors of map maker, John Seller.During the course of his career as an engraved and publisher, John Senex produced a vast array of cartography, from maps of the world and the continents as well as individual county maps of phenomenal detail. But it is for his Road Maps that he is best known and 1719 saw is sham version of John Ogilbys Britannia - a series of superb strip maps, larger than Owen Bowens and smaller than Thomas Gardners/ It ran through many editions with this map being from the FIRST ISSUE.

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1719 Set of 3 Antique Road Maps LONDON TO ABERYSTWYTH Wales Oxfordshire Senex
Author
OGILBY, John

Antique Paper Company

ASHFORD, Kent, United Kingdom

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We are dealers in original antique maps, prints, atlases, plate books, periodicals, postal history, ephemera & rare stamp collections. We have a comprehensive stock of very affordable antique prints and maps from £7 up to many thousands of £'s . We never sell modern reproductions. We are happy to provide valuations for insurance or probate. We also specialise in the Large Panoramic Prints from the Illustrated London News & The Graphic and always have a very comprehensive stock of prints and maps of the county of Kent. We are always interested in buying all of the above and especially entire collections, original archives, libraries, periodicals (especially runs of the Illustrated London News, The Graphic, Sporting and Dramatic News, Harpers Illustrated, individual better maps and prints. We are especially interested in purchasing original archives of documents, correspondences & letters from estates, solicitors, libraries and similar sources. We are happy to travel throughout the UK, Europe and the rest of the World in order to appraise and buy items.

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ANTIQUE PAPER COMPANY LIMITED

Office 2, TWEED HOUSE, PARK LANE
SWANLEY, United Kingdom BR8 8DT