The world map from the 1475 edition of the Rudimentum Novitiorum… sold by Reiss & Sohn at €900,000 (£814,050).
In Rodney Shirley’s monumental study of The Mapping of the World… 1472-1700, the very first entry is a simple, circular woodcut known as a ‘T-O’ map, one in which the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa are very simply shown as named segments.
In the following year, however, there appeared the far more complex and much larger, woodcut T-0 map.