Research Catalog

Title

[Modern geography: or all known countries in the world. Laid down from the latest observations and discoveries, communicated to the Royal Society of London and Academy of Sciences at Paris. To which is added the geography of the ancient world, showing in six maps the Grecian and Roman Empires ... and in another map those parts of Africa which serve to illustrate ecclesiastic history].

Author

Senex, John, -1740.

Publication

[London : J. Senex, 1708-1725]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

34 maps (33 col.) on 34 leaves (some folded).; 69 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

• Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 333.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Alternative Title

• Collection of maps usually bound as part of A new general atlas
• Senex maps

Subjects

• Senex, John, -1740 > Bibliography > Catalogs
• Geography, Ancient > Maps
• Atlases > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
• Early maps > Bibliography > Catalogs

Note

• A collection of Senex's sheet maps bound together.
• Title based on Phillips 550.
• Lacks a t.p.
• Some maps have dates from 1708 to 1725, and some maps are without dates.

Indexed In (note)

• ESTC
• NYPL. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division
• Phillips

Call Number

Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Senex, J. [Collection of maps usually bound as part of A new general atlas])

OCLC

16948217

Author

Senex, John, -1740.

Title

[Modern geography: or all known countries in the world. Laid down from the latest observations and discoveries, communicated to the Royal Society of London and Academy of Sciences at Paris. To which is added the geography of the ancient world, showing in six maps the Grecian and Roman Empires ... and in another map those parts of Africa which serve to illustrate ecclesiastic history].

Imprint

[London : J. Senex, 1708-1725]

Indexed In:

ESTC N62836

NYPL. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division, IX, p. 109

Phillips 550

Local Note

Copy in Map Div. includes "A catalogue of the maps as they are placed in this book" (1 leaf) and "A catalogue of globes, maps, & c. made by the late John Senex ... and continue to be sold by his widow, Mary Senex ..." (1 leaf) inserted.

Copy in Map Div. cataloged in NYPL Dictionary catalog of the Map Division under the title: [Collection of maps usually bound as part of A new general atlas engraved or revised by J. Senex]

Copy in Map Div. 97-6057 has spine title: Senex maps.

Copy in Map Div. 97-6057: [54] folded leaves : 34 maps (most hand col.) ; 70 x 32 cm.

Copy in Map Div. 97-6057 includes handwritten contents list in ink on front paste-down endpaper. Three Moll maps listed, no. 7, 10, and 11, are wanting. No. 8 bound between no. 4 and 5.

Copy in Map Div. 97-6057 has pasted on back paste-down endpaper "A catalogue of globes, maps, & c. made by the late John Senex F.R.S. and continue to be sold by his widow, Mary Senex, at the Globe ..."

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Spine Title

Senex maps NN

Research Call Number

Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Senex, J. [Collection of maps usually bound as part of A new general atlas])

Map Div. 97-6057 [LHS 333; atlas cases]