A New General Atlas, containing a Geographical and Historical Account of all the Empires, Kingdoms, and other Dominions of the World: with the natural history and trade of each country. Taken from the

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THIS IS A SUBSCRIBERS COPY from the Macclesfield library, with Lord Thomas Parker’s name in the subscribers list and his arms below which is engraved The Rght. Hon Lord Thomas Parker, Baron Macclesfield and Ld. Hgh, Chancellor of Great Britain. Senex’s ‘New General Atlas’ was the most ambitious English atlas of the period, undertaken by a consortium of leading booksellers and publishers of the day. It was a substantial undertaking; the finished atlas comprises 34 maps, 261 pages of letterpress text and eleven page index; in order to spread the cost, and risk, the atlas was produced by subscription (there is a three-page list of subscribers printed at the front, and thirteen plates of subscribers’ arms. The first subscription announcement traced appeared in ‘The Post Boy’ for 21st - 23rd October 1718: “This Day is publish’d, Proposals for Printing a new General Atlas; being a Geographical and Historical Account of all the Empires, Kingdoms, c. in the World: The Maps are laid down according to the Observations communicated to our Royal Society, the French Royal Academy of Sciences, and those of our latest Travellers; with full Descriptions adapted to the Maps … I. To contain about 100 Sheets of an Elephant Paper, printed on the same Letter with the Proposals, and the Maps upon distinct Sheets handsomely illuminated. II. The Price is two Guineas and a half, one Guinea in Hand, and the Remainder on the Delivery of the Book. …”. The atlas had a long gestation, with frequent apolog

• Binding: Hardcover

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