The First Map of America Sold for $1 Million!

First map of America sold for $1 million

LONDON — A nearly 500-year-old map from the first set to identify the New World as "America" and depict the Pacific Ocean was sold Wednesday for a record $1 million, an auction house said. The printed map, one of only four known surviving examples produced by a group working under German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, was bought by Charles Frodsham and Co. Ltd., a company that makes, collects and deals in items ranging from clocks to maps to books, Christie's auction house said. Christie's said the $1 million price — $880,000 plus auctioneer's premium — was the highest amount ever paid for a single-sheet map at an auction.

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