Price, Charles (sold)
Charles Price (1679? - 1733) was an English instrument-maker, engraver, surveyor, mapmaker and mapseller. In the course of his career collaborated with many of the leading lights of English cartography. Nothing is known of his childhood. He was apprenticed to the mapmaker John Seller in 1694, and witnessed his master's will; he and Jeremiah Seller became free in 1703 and entered into a partnership. He moved on to work with John Senex from 1705-1710, and George Willdey from 1710 to 1713. He also worked with instrument maker Benjamin Scott. He appears to have been prolific. Unfortunately, by 1731 he was in debtors' prison; he died in 1733.
Earliest example of the largest early 18th century English map of Poland.
Poland: corrected from the observations communicated to the Royal Society at London and the Royal Academy at Paris.
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This is a lovely, original old color example of John Senex' important map of Poland, one of the largest English maps of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The map reaches from the Baltic, Silesia and Hungary in the west to Biela, Molenskow and Severia in the east. It is superbly engraved and richly detailed, with mountains and forests rendered pictorially. The cartouche, with its dedication to Sir James Hallett, has a particularly martial character. Surmounted with weapons, it is flanked by figures representing Mars and Winged Victory, perhaps alluding to the many wars suffered by the Commonwealth. It is unclear what connection Sir James Hallett (1690 - 1734, who may have been a Goldsmith, might have had with the subject matter. (more details)