Map

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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