Team

Daniel Crouch

Daniel has worked as a bookseller since the age of sixteen; first at Sanders of Oxford on weekends and holidays whilst at school and university, before starting full-time in 1997 and becoming general manager in 1998. Subsequent to this, he left to work as a business developer in the book department at Bonhams auction house in 1999. In 2002 he was invited to set up a map and atlas department at Bernard Shapero Rare Books in London.

Daniel has given numerous lectures on maps and atlases, including talks at the Library of Congress, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Fine Art Museum, Houston.

In the summer of 2010, with the support of a group of their customers, Daniel together with Nick Trimming started Daniel Crouch Rare Books. Daniel still lives in Oxford with his wife, Jen, and two young daughters.

Nick Trimming

Nick studied classical civilization and archaeology at King’s College, London. He started work as a porter at Bonhams in 2000, and was appointed saleroom manager in their Knightsbridge rooms in 2002. He joined Daniel at Shapero in 2003 and, in the summer of 2010, with the support of a group of their customers, they started their own business. Nick lives in Hampshire with his wife Clare, and young son and daughter.

Kate Hunter

Kate is the senior specialist at our New York office.

Kate was born in Perth, Western Australia, where she grew up surrounded by books. Her family have been book collectors for generations and her mother Penny Bannister has been an antiquarian bookseller there for nearly 50 years.

Kate began her bookselling career in England at Cavendish Rare Books, and would later work for Maggs Bros., and begin her own business in 1994. In 2004, she moved with her family to New York, where she worked for Christie’s, and later on Graham Arader.

Kate has extensive experience in appraising material for permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, for both Insurance, and Fair Market Value purposes. She has conducted appraisals, on both a small and large scale, on behalf of private, public and educational foundations; for booksellers and individuals. She is a Certified Member of the Appraiser’s Association of America.

Katherine Wood

Originally from Kansas City, Katherine completed her bachelor’s degree of fine art in Siloam Springs, Arkansas where she specialized in illustration, with a focus on oil painting and mixed media. Katherine moved to London in the fall of 2023 to complete her Art History MA in Byzantium and the Medieval Middle East at the Courtauld, where she wrote her dissertation on the façade of the North portal of San Marco in Venice. Katherine is passionate about art and literature in all forms, and since graduating, has worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, as well as a registrar for a photography gallery. Her interest is most keenly focused on celestial maps, and the zodiac, the more illustrated, the better. Her responsibilities at the gallery include all things logistics, including fairs, exhibitions and sales.

Rose Grossel

Rose joined us in 2023, having completed a BA in Classics and an MSt in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford. Day-to-day, her work is a combination of cataloguing and gallery management. She has a particular interest in ephemera and in thematic maps, and is consistently fascinated by what cartography can tell us about the different ways in which people understand the world around them.

Ivone Chao

Ivone grew up in Sāo Paulo, Brazil, and moved to London to study a BA in Interior and Spatial Design and PgDip Design for Visual Communication at the University of the Arts London. She joined us in 2011, and is responsible for all the visual communication of the gallery, including catalogues, videos, the website and social media. She speaks Portuguese, Cantonese, and some Mandarin and Spanish.

Evelyn Unwin Tew

Evelyn grew up in Brisbane, Australia and joined us in January 2026. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in History with Law, from the University of Tasmania. Whilst there she resided at Christ College, the oldest tertiary institution in Australia, where she was Vice-President and Secretary of the student club. Throughout her time at university Evelyn was involved in a large variety of extra-curricular activities, including holding the positions of Editor-in-Chief of the University of Tasmania’s Independent Newspaper, and President of the National Association of Australian University Colleges. Evelyn is particularly interested in the mapping of the Asian-Pacific regions and gastronomic cartography.