World's first printed atlas - 1477 edition - sells for record US 3.9 million »

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The first atlas ever printed sold for a record US$3.9 million at auction Tuesday. The sale at Sotheby's of the 1477 edition of Claudius Ptolemy's landmark atlas established a new record for any atlas ever sold at auction.

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moemebe
Oct. 11, 2006, 12:15 p.m.
LMAO!! Good one worker...you crack me up!

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