The world-famous 58-year-old collector, Jonathan Potter (Jonathan Potter), who decided shortly to retire, ready to sell his famous catalog of antique maps, worth 3 million pounds sterling.
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Jonathan Potter began collecting old maps of nearly forty years ago. Subsequently, this fascinating hobby grew into a business. Enterprising collector founded the gallery, which currently shows one of the largest collections of antique maps in the world.
1.Samym expensive exhibit, for sale, is a globe master Mattaeus Greuter, established in 1632. It is estimated to be £ 90 000 pounds
2.Eta magnificent 16 th century map of Iceland was published in Abraham Ortelius Antwerp. It is famous not only vivid images of a mountainous area with erupting volcano Hekla, but numerical creatures, real and fictional, are drawn around the map of the island itself. Card price £ 7 £ 500
3.Karta world of "Geography" of Ptolemy, printed in Ulme in 1482, Potter was sold for £ 12 000. Now it costs up to an incredible sum of £ 150 000 pounds sterling.
4.Dekorativnaya world map John Speed, representing the two hemispheres, was published in 1627 entitled "New and accurate map of the world". This is the first map, which clearly demonstrates the mistaken impression that California is an island and Australia is a solid great beach. Its price - £ 12 800 pounds.
5.Karta North America in the performance of Pierre Mortier from the atlas "Atlas Nouveau", printed in 1692. Site is interesting because it depicts California as an island.
6.Karta Japan, based on multiple sources, collected in the East Indies. It was published by JB Tavernier in Paris in 1679. The cost of this card - £ 3200 pounds.
7.V humorous card William Harvey, who wrote under the pseudonym Aleph, Spain is shown as a native resident of this country, whose face is closed veil, but in the hands she holds a bunch of grapes. The woman turned her face to fit and noble bear, which symbolizes Portugal
8.O his next creation Aleph wrote: "A woman with a hooked nose is France, the Empress of food, fashion and dance. She - a symbol of victory, power, wealth, art and imperial heritage."
9.Karta moon, created in 1720 by astronomer, geographer, mathematician and physicist Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr. Map Earth satellite was printed Johann Baptist Homann in some of his atlases.