£1.3m atlas in pole position

BY IAN MCKAYWRITING about some of the more important items in his peerless private collection of atlases and geographies, the late Lord Wardington said of the Doria Atlas: “I just hope that it... will prove to be as good an investment in the future as I might have made in stocks and shares.”

He had seen the British Rail Pension Fund buy this remarkable 16th century composite atlas for £140,…

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