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January 24, 2011: Manuscript map of North America Sells for £170,000
"Dated 1699, it is signed by the London 'plattmaker' (cartographer) John Thornton (1641-1708), a prolific member of the Thames School of map and chart makers, who worked as a hydrographer for both the English East India Company and the Hudson's Bay Company."
