Map

Pictured here is a detail from an 18th century parchment roll map documenting the primary roads on a journey from London to Durham through the counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Durham.

Mary Tudor’s personal copy of Vergil’s history of England comes to auction in Gloucestershire this month.

Library items shelved away in now closed college include some of the first North American histories

A world atlas produced by a Dublin-born man who is considered the first US commercial publisher made its way to the Irish capital to be sold at auction house Adam’s (25% buyer’s premium).

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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