Maps

An Australian bidder secured this early 19th century 2ft 4in (71cm) Bardin terrestrial library globe at Copake Auction’s (25% buyer’s premium) recent estate sale in upstate New York.

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.

Widely varying plans outlining a faraway harbour and a slice of rural Yorkshire bring saleroom surprises

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

The County Durham-born cartographer John Arrowsmith (1790-1873) was responsible for one of the first ‘modern’ atlases of the 19th century.

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

Despite volatility in so many markets, the rare book world continues to offer a calm respite, as Rupert Powell of Forum Auctions writes

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

Sixteenth century work edited by Hakluyt aimed to encourage English expansion and influence

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

Clare Wabe of Molly and Harlequin specialises in antique maps and prints with a focus on natural history, though the stock ranges wider.

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.

Calculations on planetary movements rise to the occasion in New York saleroom

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.

Estimated at £600-800, a 1777 first in marbled board covers of John Chapman and Peter Andre’s 'Map of the County of Essex from an Actual Survey' was sold for what would appear to be an auction record.

The big attraction in a job lot estimated at £60-100 that went on to sell for £14,000 in a September 23 sale held by Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium) was a copy of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description…, Dr Edmund Gibson’s 1695, updated and English language version of a well-known earlier work.