Shapero bids record £1.9m for first printed atlas
When Sotheby’s sold the first portion of the Wardington library of atlases and geographies last year, London dealer Bernard Shapero set a cartographic auction record by paying £1.3m for the ‘Doria’ atlas, a superb collection of so-called Lafreri School maps of the latter part of the 16th century.
When the second part of this incomparable private collection was offered on October 10, Shapero was …