1719 Antique Road THREE ROAD Maps LONDON to OAKHAM Rutland Yorkshire Derbyshire

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Listing Template 2018 Home About Us View Feedback Contact Us 1719 Antique Road THREE ROAD Maps LONDON to OAKHAM Rutland Yorkshire DerbyshireDescription1719Set of Three Original Antique Road Maps titledTHE ROADfrom LONDON to OKEHAM in RUTLAND Extended to RICHMOND in YORKSHIREA superb FIRST ISSUE Set of Three very early road maps by John Senex showing the road starting from ST ALBANS via LUTON, BEDFORD, WELLINGBOROUGH, KETTERING, UPPINGHAM on to OAKHAM - then onto RICHMOND in YORKSHIRE via MILTON MOWBRAY (Leicestershire), NOTTINGHAM, MANSFIELD, DERBYSHIRE, ROTHERHAM, BARNSLEY, ALMONDBURY, SKIPTON, RIPON and through to RICHMOND.CONDITION:Superb condition, especially being from the First Edition. Good margins, perfect for mounting and framing and with hand colouring. Overall size of each Map including margins 23cm 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 en 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 shamm version of John Ogilby's 'Britannia' - a series of superb strip maps, larger than Owen Bowen's and smaller than Thomas Gardner's/ It ran through many editions with this map being from the FIRST ISSUE.All our items are original Antiques and as described.We provide a No Quibble Money Back Guarantee View Our Categories Decorative Prints World Wide Maps Scotland Maps Architecture Design England Maps Royalty About UsWe specialise in selling all items that can be considered to be Antique Paper. * PRINTS * MAPS * HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS * POSTAL HISTORY * BOOKS * POSTERS * STAMPS * POSTCARDS * EPHEMERA And anything else that is considered Antique and made of Paper. ALL OF OUR ITEMS ARE ORIGINAL ANTIQUES - NOT MODERN COPIES. We are also very keen buyers of anything similar and especially after better collections, original archives, whole libraries and better single items and have and#163;250,000 in cash funds at anyone time to buy the right items. Contact UsIf you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us through the eBay messaging system. Feedback We will always help you to have a 100% positive happy buying experience. Contact us if you are unhappy about any aspect of your purchase from us. We only want five star feedback from you so buy with confidence. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8F4BCB985484462C801E532A82F97F14

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