As ever, the most recent sale held by Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) – on January 29 – contained a great many maps and atlases and shown right is one of the highlights.
Sold at £3700 was an example in contemporary colour of a Somerset map bearing the date 1575 but seen here as issued in the pioneering Saxton atlas of England and Wales published in 1579. A Cambridge-educated Yorkshireman, Christopher Saxton was attached to the household of Thomas Seckford, at whose instigation and expense – and with the approval of Elizabeth I – the counties were surveyed and maps drawn up.