Cartography creates demand as collection of former chancellor comes for sale

Rare atlases from the 17th to 19th centuries provided the top-sellers as an extensive library collection emerged from the estate of a descendant of one of Britain’s longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer.

Consigned via the family seat of Sir Michael Hicks Beach* (later ennobled as the first Earl St Ald…

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