Cosmographical delight and colossal crustaceans

Top lot in a June 6 sale of maps, natural history and other colour plate books held in New York was a rare map by Lewis Evans of what were then still the ‘Middle British Colonies’ in America.

That important map, which sold at $100,000 (£76,900), was featured and illustrated as Pick of the …

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