Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. La Jolla map dealer Alex Clausen came across this rare 14th century nautical chart at an estate sale for Ann and Gordon Getty.
The rare 14th-century portolan chart is worth $7.5 million. Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images Last fall, Christie’s auctioned off a “highly unusual” nautical map as part of an estate ...
THE Royal Geographical Society has had placed at its disposal a fund for the reproduction of a series of selected manuscript maps, and the first issue of this series is the reproduction of the ...