Maps

Sought-after book of recipes including a puff-pastry print first was intended for the use of his pupils

The commercial fortunes of a 19th century map of the Arctic offered at Cheffins (25% buyer’s premium) this month were boosted greatly by its annotations.

Seventeenth century map of Bermondsey area reveals garden suburb character in a pre-industrial age

John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium) Fine Paintings sale in Fernhurst on February 20 included a good example of The Pictorial Missionary Map of the World - a rarity that appears at auction perhaps once in every decade.

London Transport commissioned publisher Edward Stanford to create the so-called ‘Bubble Map’ in 1934-35.

For Helen Sunderland-Cohen collecting is a family business. The Sunderland Collection was launched by her father, and several years ago she came on board.

A rare Islamic Mecca-centred world map, considered a masterpiece from Safavid Persia, will star in the Islamic and Indian Art sale at Bonhams.

Three-inch globes were mostly sold as pocket globes, typically as a terrestrial globe contained within a ray-skin case with the celestial gores for the heavens pasted inside.

An Australian bidder secured this early 19th century 2ft 4in (71cm) Bardin terrestrial library globe at Copake Auction’s (25% buyer’s premium) recent estate sale in upstate New York.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Key to the success of the London Map Fair was an international outlook combined with keeping it local.

Widely varying plans outlining a faraway harbour and a slice of rural Yorkshire bring saleroom surprises

Works by the three sisters including copies published under pseudonyms come to a Cambridge auction

The County Durham-born cartographer John Arrowsmith (1790-1873) was responsible for one of the first ‘modern’ atlases of the 19th century.

The London Map Fair, which bills itself as the world’s oldest and largest event of its kind, is widening its scope.

Now hugely popular, this collecting field actually took many years to get going

Despite volatility in so many markets, the rare book world continues to offer a calm respite, as Rupert Powell of Forum Auctions writes

Inscription signalled one of American literature’s most significant editorial relationships

Trebling its high estimate in a sale in Surrey was a large, in fact elephant folio-sized Atlas Royal… from c.1733

Sixteenth century work edited by Hakluyt aimed to encourage English expansion and influence