Maps

Small group of the author’s ever-popular works makes a big impression at Gloucestershire saleroom

Clare Wabe of Molly and Harlequin specialises in antique maps and prints with a focus on natural history, though the stock ranges wider.

The creation of James T Palmatary, the engraved and framed birds-eye view or plan of Chicago of 1857 pictured above is almost 7ft wide.

Calculations on planetary movements rise to the occasion in New York saleroom

First part of a collection which covered the walls and cellar of two whole flats is offered at auction

A Dutch travelogue from the early years of Arctic exploration sold for £44,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Chiswick Auctions on October 26.

Estimated at £600-800, a 1777 first in marbled board covers of John Chapman and Peter Andre’s 'Map of the County of Essex from an Actual Survey' was sold for what would appear to be an auction record.

The big attraction in a job lot estimated at £60-100 that went on to sell for £14,000 in a September 23 sale held by Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium) was a copy of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description…, Dr Edmund Gibson’s 1695, updated and English language version of a well-known earlier work.

A pair of 19th century globes by the Newton family is on offer from FE Anderson of Welshpool at the Chester Decorative Antiques & Art Fair.

Doubling its mid-estimate to sell at £50,000, one of the top lots in a sale of September 7 was Paulo Forlani’s Il Disegno del discoperto della nova Franza…

In the years 1881-82, the Rev William Essery was for many months a passenger on the SS Ceylon.

The Map of Florida shown here was issued in 1829 to encourage settlement following its still recent acquisition from Spain.

Set of charts, plans and views was published by the Admiralty for Royal Navy use

Dramatic rescue of 1916 was recorded visually by the polar explorer two years later

Maps and views of San Francisco were among the principal attractions of an April 21 sale held by local auction house PBA Galleries (25/20% buyer’s premium) to disperse the first portion of the Charles Fraccia Collection.

Estimated at just $200-300, this folding map of the island of Antigua proved rather more expensive than expected.

Dealer Tim Bryars previews this year’s London Map Fair with an eye on current collecting trends

Bid to £2800 in a recent Norfolk sale was a detailed and now rare Map of the Parish of St Mary Abbotts, Kensington… dating from 1879.

Nineteenth century aquatint and map provide global perspective in Gloucestershire saleroom

In Rodney Shirley’s monumental study of 'The Mapping of the World… 1472-1700', the very first entry is a simple, circular woodcut known as a ‘T-O’ map, one in which the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa are very simply shown as named segments.