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A 435-year-old map containing the first ever reference to the state of Virginia has sold for five times its estimated value after a bidding war - for £167k.
Peter Martyr's chronicles of the Spanish conquest of America is an incredibly rare book but finding a copy which also contains an early map of America has never happened before.
The exceedingly rare engraved folding map of the New World, known as the Hakluyt-Martyr map, also shows partially blank outlines of Japan and New Guinea.
Pic: ForumAuctions/BNPS
A 435-year-old map containing the first ever reference to the state of Virginia has sold for five times its estimated value after a bidding war - for £167k.
Peter Martyr's chronicles of the Spanish conquest of America is an incredibly rare book but finding a copy which also contains an early map of America has never happened before.
The exceedingly rare engraved folding map of the New World, known as the Hakluyt-Martyr map, also shows partially blank outlines of Japan and New Guinea.
Forum Auctions 3 Jan 2023 3442x5933 / 15.3MB