$1-Million Sale for 1507 Map With ‘America’
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A nearly 500-year-old map from the first set to identify the New World as “America” and depict the eastern Pacific Ocean was sold for $1 million, Christie’s auction house said. The printed map, one of only four known surviving examples produced in 1507 by a group working under German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, was bought by a company that deals in maps, books and other rare items.
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