Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LONDON, April 13 (UPI) -- One of four remaining copies of the first map showing the world as a globe is expected to fetch at least $1.5 million at Christie's auction in London in June. The 1507 detailed drawing was made by German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller, and sat undiscovered in the stock of a European collector until two years ago. He hadn't realized the value of it until seeing a newspaper article about another Waldseemuller map, the BBC said Wednesday. Advertisement The map was drawn based on claims by Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci that the New World was a separate continent, and not part of Asia as Christopher Columbus said. Columbus mistakenly named the indigenous people he encountered "Indians." It is the first map to distinguish North and South America, using a derivation of Vespucci's first name. Christie's will auction the map along with others, as well as atlases and globes June 8.
