Rare Elizabethan atlas up for sale

From icWales:

A RARE copy of the first printed atlas of England and Wales is to be offered at auction, it was announced today.

Sotheby’s said it was selling the “extraordinary” item in London on March 15.

The work of Yorkshire surveyor Christopher Saxton, printed between 1579 and 1590, is bound in one volume with a rare set of five charts by Giovanni Battista Boazio, illustrating Sir Francis Drake’s expedition to the West Indies and America from 1585-1586.

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