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A John Senex 12-inch terrestrial table globe, English, circa 1740, image 1
A John Senex 12-inch terrestrial table globe, English, circa 1740, image 2
The Stephen Edell Collection of Pocket and Table Globes
Lot 178

A John Senex 12-inch terrestrial table globe,
English, circa 1740,

15 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,375 inc. premium

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A John Senex 12-inch terrestrial table globe, English, circa 1740,

the cartouche printed A New and Correct GLOBE of the EARTH together with a view of the general and coasting trade winds, monsoons etc. Laid down according to the newest discoveries and from the most exact observations by John Senex, F.R.S. Sold by him at the Globe against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street, 1738, mounted in brass meridian within horizon ring applied with printed calendar, zodiac and compass point scales, on four turned mahogany columns with stretcher,
18in (46cm) high

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Provenance:
The Stephen Edell Collection.

A leading figure of the London globe trade during the first half of the 18th century, John Senex (1678-1740) first worked with Charles Price and a number of other makers before he moved to his own premises in Fleet street by 1710.

Senex produced globes in a range of sizes, from 2 3/4in pocket globes to examples measuring 9in, 12in, 17in, and 27in diameter. The inclusion of the initials F.R.S on the cartouche of the present globe indicates that it was made after 1728, the year Senex was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

The Senex copper plates for the globes (except for the pocket globes) saw continued use for decades after his death. In 1757 the plates were purchased by James Ferguson, and these designs featured on globes made in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, by Benjamin Martin and later by Dudley Adams.

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