SENEX, JOHN
Untitled Atlas [circa 1730's]
Tall narrow folio [690 x 300mm], 34 engraved folding maps [20 on 2 sheets joined and 14 full page], original printed numbered index to the maps pasted inside front cover. The maps all have the Senex name except for Map number 33, Graeciae Pars Septentrionalis. 18 of the maps are dated 1707 - 1725.
Following his election to the Royal Society in 1728 he added F.R.S. to his name. Several of the maps in this atlas are pre 1728 and do have F.R.S. following his name.
Map 26 Turky in Europe has the names, Io Senex and Io Maxwell, undated [1712] in the dedication cartouche.
All the maps except the first 'Whiston's Solar System' are in contemporary hand colour many of them with elaborate allegorical cartouches and dedications. The maps are clean and the colour crisp. There are short repairs at the folds marks, base of the maps where the paper has thinned through opening, each map has the corresponding number to the index in a contemporary hand, top right corner verso.
In the original full panelled leather binding, blind stamped, some abrasions and edge wear, taped at the foot of the spine. A very good copy of an early and rare Senex atlas.
Provenance: Library of T.L. Seddon.