The very model of a British map...

UK: THE Travel sale held by Sotheby’s on December 14 included a fine collection of what are known as ‘Lafreri-School’ maps, the product of a remarkable flowering of cartographic arts that took place in Rome and Venice, c.1540-70.

A great many of the maps, often based on large wall maps of cities, provinces, states and countries …

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