Essex map reaches new height

Estimated at £600-800, a 1777 first in marbled board covers of John Chapman and Peter Andre’s 'Map of the County of Essex from an Actual Survey' was sold for what would appear to be an auction record.

It boasted 24 hand-tinted, double-page engraved maps of the county, with this splendid double-page t…

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