Rare Maps
Rare Atlases
Rare Books
Rare Prints
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For our inaugural catalogue we are proud to offer the Gestetner Collection of maritime atlases and voyages. Undoubtedly one of the best libraries of sea atlases in private hands, the books are remarkable both for their exceptional quality and their rarity. The Gestetner family started building a collection of maritime atlases and voyages twenty years ago to celebrate their love of sailing and the many happy times they had spent together on their various boats, all named ‘Grumpy Skipper’.
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For our second catalogue, we are proud to present a selection of rare and important atlases, sea atlases, wall maps, manuscript maps, and voyages.
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Welcome to the third catalogue from Daniel Crouch Rare Books. Within these pages you will find 100 plans showing London’s rapid development, from the Tudors to the Windsors. You will see London the glutton, purged by fire, the home of the rich as well as the poor, and a refuge and opportunity for strangers; a city not dissimilar to the one we inhabit ourselves.
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In celebration of The European Fine Art Fair’s 25th anniversary, we areproud to present 25 spectacular items from the first four hundred years of the history of printing.
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Catalogue IX, released for both the opening of our New York gallery and the inaugural TEFAF fair in New York. Fittingly, many of the items in the catalogue deal with new frontiers, from a copy of the terms of Columbus’s journey to America to a globe showing one woman’s plans for a socialist utopia on Mars.
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Welcome to the fifth catalogue from Daniel Crouch Rare Books. The catalogue comprises a selection of the items that we will be exhibiting at the 26th European Fine Art and Antiques Fair in Maastricht and, as a consequence, it has an undeniably Dutch feel about it.
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Catalogue VI represents something of a departure for Daniel Crouch Rare Books. In the year that marks 300 years since the passing of the Longitude Act, and the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, we thought it a good time to put together a collection of calculating machines from the first information revolution.
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Welcome to Catalogue VII, published on our fifth anniversary. To mark this occasion we have selected from our inventory the most spectacular examples in each of the fields in which we specialise – atlases, maps, globes, voyages, and scientific instruments. Each item is distinguished by its historical interest, rarity, or beauty. The most exceptional combine all three, like the pair of Blaeu globes made for Schloss Baldern in Germany (item 46). All represent pinnacles of human achievement, created by the most gifted scholars and craftsmen of their time.
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In 2011, Daniel Crouch Rare Books produced a catalogue of maps showing London from 1574 to the present day. In 2016, we return to the capital, but this time, with a catalogue of prints.
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The 1531 planisphere signed and dated by Vesconte Maggiolo is a remarkable survival: a monumental early sixteenth century portolan chart of the known world, in astonishingly good condition, with rich decoration, vibrant colours, and heightened in lapis lazuli, gold, and silver.
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In this catalogue we have selected 28 items – one for each of the states of the current European Union – that explore the history and idea of the European nation state. In his introductory essay Professor Colin Crouch argues that territorial sovereignty is rooted more in political expediency than in natural borders or cultural identity. Advances in mapmaking technologies not only preceded the birth of the modern European nation state, but were also necessary conditions for its creation.
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The earliest printed maps condensed and edited information from three “traditions” of map-making: Christian iconography, classical cartography, and contemporary charts.
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In this catalogue we focus on the early modern world – roughly the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries – when exploration, celestial observation, and mathematical map-making transformed how the globe was measured and imagined. In its pages you’ll find charts and books that trace that shift, from tentative coastlines to confident global projections, showing how paper, ink, and ingenuity turned unknown oceans into navigable space on both the library shelf and in the human mind.
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![ARROWSMITH, Aaron To The Hon[oura]ble the Court Directors of the East India Company This Improved Map of India](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/35709_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C4170&ssl=1)
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By ARROWSMITH, Aaron, 2nd January, 1816.
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By LAS CASAS, Bartolomé de, 1552-1553.
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By STADEN, Johann von, 1557 [dedication, page 14, 1556].
![PALLACHE, Don Samuel [aka Morenu ha-Rav Shemuel PALACHI] An archive of original unpublished documents related to the trial, in London, of Samuel Pallache, on charges of committing "pyracie, spoyle and outrage at sea", in 1614-1615.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/35651_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C2765&ssl=1)
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Cities, like people, are full of contradictions. They promise order but grow through chaos. They are built on careful plans, yet shaped by imagination and memory. Cities, like dreams, a collaboration between Daniel Crouch Rare Books and Michael Hoppen Gallery for TEFAF Maastricht 2026, explores how cities have been pictured and understood across three centuries - how they have been drawn from above and experienced from within.
The exhibition brings two very different ways of seeing together. Monumental eighteenth‑century town plans - made at a time when faith in reason and measurement was at its height - are shown next to Sohei Nishino’s large‑scale photographic dioramas, dreamlike reconstructions of the same cities created from thousands of individual photographs. These pairings reveal what the city has always been: both a system and an emotion, something that can be mapped and yet never truly contained.
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![JONES, W[illiam] A New Portable Orrery [and planetarium attachment].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/35485_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C5124&ssl=1)
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