Map gives a one-sided religious global view

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.

Drawn by John Gilbert (1810-99) and engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, the 1861 map presents il…

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