Lot 305
A Map of the World by Moll, With The South Sea Coast by John Senex. Two maps matted together and framed to 16½" x 35½". (1) A Map of the World, Shewing the Course of Mr, Dampiers Voyage Round it: From 1679 to 1691, [London, James Knapton, 1697]. Image is 7" x 11¼". Dampiers was a buccaneer, explorer and map-maker, the first person to circumnavigate the world three times; he is often credited with the European discovery of Australia. Information he collected was used by James Cook and Horatio Nelson. After his first voyage, he wrote a book, A New Voyage Round the World, based on his journals.
(2) The South Sea Coast, engraved by John Senex, 7¼" x 15½". It shows the Pacific Coast of Mexico from 8 degrees to 17 degrees north latitude and was published after a Spanish map said to have been captured by English rover Capt. Woods Rogers. It appeared in A Cruising Voyage Around the World, London, 1712. Senex was a cartographer, explorer, astrologer, geologist, and geographer to Queen Anne; he was also the creator of pocket-size world maps. Both maps with considerable toning. Not examined out of frame.
Estimated Value $500 - 600.
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