Of the diverse materials offered, Claudius Ptolamaeus's Geographia Universalis, 47 (of 48) double-page maps, Basel, circa 1542 (above), sold on June 11, for $12,000, and Thomas Jefferys's The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America, with 18 folding maps, London, 1760 (below), sold on December 3, for $16,800.
Labels: Gary Garland, Maps and Atlases