Record Price for Ptolemy Atlas

The world's first-ever printed atlas fetched a record 2.1 million dollars at Sotheby's in London recently. It was a 1477 edition of Cladius Ptolemy Atlas and beat the previous record of the Doria Atlas sold in 2005. The Ptolemy Atlas was bought by London dealer Bernard Shapero for a private collector. I took my 1914 Badaker's Southern France Guide with me to France just to compare it with the way things are now. It was quite interesting to flip through when visiting various sites and cities. In fact some of it will be featured in my GoNOMAD piece. When I bought the book in a old bookstore in Maine it had a pink ribbon folded in it and made me wonder if perhaps it might have been used on a honeymoon. I'll state for that record here and now that I was not the private collector that purchased the Ptolemy, I felt bad enough blowing $30 bucks on the Badekers.