First Atlas Sells for Pounds 2.1 Million

Evening Standard - London › October 10, 2006

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THE world's first printed atlas today sold for a record Pounds 2.1 million at auction.

The winning bid for the 529-year-old work, which contains the earliest known map of Britain, smashed the previous record for an early atlas of Pounds 1.5 million.

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First Atlas Sells for Pounds 2.1 Million

The 61-...

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