Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)

(25.5 cm), 144 (6) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 293 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes six portolan charts “at one time in the collection of the Counts of Maldeghem, one of the great noble families of Flanders” (catalogue foreword to lots 172-177). The 15th century Genoese portolan of the Mediterranean made £286,000 (”Barnes”), and an early 17th century Portuguese chart including America made £330,000 (”Costa”), “but the prices paid for the others were scarcely less astonishing” (from saleroom report, in The Book Collector, Summer 1988, p.244). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.