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Rare early edition of this fine map of the World on Wright's projection, engraved by a young Herman Moll.
Shows California as an island, a substantially incomplete Australia, a portion of the West Coast of New Zealand, fascinating NE Coast of Asia, including The Land of Iesso, no NW Coast of America and a host of other interesting details. The map shows the various trade winds and currents, along with a large inset of the North Pole.
Charles Price (1679?-1733) was an engraver, instrument maker, and mapseller.
Price had been apprenticed to John Seller, famous mapmaker and father to Charles’ business partner, Jeremiah. In fact, Jeremiah and Charles were made free of the Merchant Taylors Guild on the same day, September 1, 1703. The two were already working together by then.
After breaking off with Seller, Price worked with John Senex (1705-10) and George Wildey (1710-13). He was still working in the 1720s, but was in Fleet Prison in 1731 for debt and died two years later.
Jeremiah Seller (1671-?) was the second son of prominent London mapmaker John Seller. He inherited two-thirds of the business upon his father’s death in 1697. From 1700-5 Seller worked in partnership with Charles Price. In 1705, Jeremiah lost the family contract to supply instruments to the Royal Navy, which led to the dissolution of his partnership with Price. Seller left the map trade in that year, passing his stock to Richard Mount and Thomas Page.
![La Carte Generale du Monde. dressée sur les Relations les plus recentes. Par P: Du Val [General Map of the World, Based on the Most Recent Observations. By P. Du Val]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/95625.jpg)
![A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps Of all the known Countries in the World. Constructed from the Latest Authority [Binder's title: Lucas's Cabinet Atlas]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/80266.jpg)
