JH Robinson’s Map of Mexico, Louisiana and the Missouri Territory… of 1819, sold at a record $280,000 (£202,900) by Sotheby’s New York.
The American West was the theme of a 43-lot, single-owner collection offered as part of the same January 17 sale held by Sotheby’s New York featured on the facing page.
A few books and photographs were included, but it was the maps and atlases that brought the high bids. Several of them brought substantial five-figure bids, but two went higher still.