The auction catalogues of an outstanding collection of atlases.
The Wardington Library: Important Atlases & Geographies. Part One: A-K. [&] Part Two: L-Z.
London: 2005 & 2006. Two volumes, publisher's cloth with pasted illustration on front board; Vol I pp. 367, Vol 2 pp. 371, profusely illustrated.
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The two-volume auction catalogue for the sale of the 650 maps and atlases in the Wardington Library, collected by Christopher "Bic" Henry Beaumont Pease, 2nd Baron Wardington (1924-2005), and sold by Sotheby's in London over two sessions on 18 October 2005 and 10 October 2006. The items, which dated from 1472 to the late C20th, included a unique composite Lafréry atlas assembled by Andrea Doria, the Genoese admiral.
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