Map

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

Maps and views of San Francisco were among the principal attractions of an April 21 sale held by local auction house PBA Galleries (25/20% buyer’s premium) to disperse the first portion of the Charles Fraccia Collection.

Estimated at just $200-300, this folding map of the island of Antigua proved rather more expensive than expected.

Dealer Tim Bryars previews this year’s London Map Fair with an eye on current collecting trends

Bid to £2800 in a recent Norfolk sale was a detailed and now rare Map of the Parish of St Mary Abbotts, Kensington… dating from 1879.