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The British rare maps and books dealer Daniel Crouch is preparing a Brexit-themed booth for his stand at the Tefaf art fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands city made famous for its role in the European Union’s recent history. Crouch, who opened a new space in New York in January, says his fair booth will explore “the myth of boundaries and the nation state”.

Daniel Crouch Rare Books opened launched its New York City premises on Wednesday with a Burns Night celebration.

Daniel Crouch Rare Books will mark the opening of their New York Gallery at 24 East 64th Street with a launch party on Burns Night (25 January 2017). A small selection of Celtic cartography will be on display, in keeping with the traditional Scottish celebration, as well as the gallery’s reputation as specialist dealers in fine and rare antique maps, plans, sea charts and voyages.

The venerable European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf), held in Maastricht since 1988, has pulled off its first mini-edition for older art in New York, an event that closed on Wednesday. Organisers revamped the Park Avenue Armory to great effect and hosted 94 galleries with pieces from antiquity to the early 20th century. With nearly a third of booths of the Maastricht flagship, Tefaf New York Fall was more digestible and focused (a separate Modern and contemporary version will be launched in May.)

It was in my last column that I wrote just how busy St. James’s specialist dealer in rare maps and atlases Daniel Crouch is at the moment. I was highlighting his exhibition of 200 prints and panoramas of 600 years of London which he showed at Frieze Masters before moving on to TEFAF New York where he currently shares a stand with Dutch rare books dealers Antiquariaat Forum.

Say “Maastricht” to anyone in a certain precinct of the art world and they will know you are talking about TEFAF Maastricht, the grande dame of art fairs, specializing in extremely high-end art and antiques. Now comes TEFAF New York, a new fair scheduled to appear twice a year at the Park Avenue Armory, in the fall and the spring, and repeat that museum-quality level.

Daniel Crouch Rare Books is to sell a spectacular 16th century world map by Genoese cartographer Vesconte Maggiolo at the TEFAF art and antique fair in New York.

At first glance they look like entirely different cities – one its skyline dominated by church spires and palaces, the other a modern tangle of skyscapers and tower blocks.

In 1531, Italian sailor and cartographer Vesconte Maggiolo created a “Portolan planisphere,” a navigational chart of the known world, that included the first depiction of the eastern seaboard and therefore of New York harbor. Bloomberg tells us that the 6.7′ x 3′ map made of six goat skins is now in the possession of rare book and map dealer Daniel Crouch, who will put it up for sale for a whopping $10 million this Saturday at TEFAF art fair. If it fetches this price, it’ll become the most expensive map ever publicly sold.

Just when you thought the global art calendar—between auctions, art fairs and biennials—couldn’t get any busier, TEFAF (the European Fine Art Fair), is almost here. The premier event, which opens for VIPs on Friday, October 21, is happening for the first time in New York.

Now this is definitely one of those once in a lifetime sort of moments when a 500-year-old (!!!) map appears on the market, and what’s more it’s the first map ever to depict the New York Harbor. Come Saturday, it will be on sale at the Park Avenue Armory for an equally jaw-dropping number: $10 million, Bloomberg reports.

The oldest map of North America—including New York—is slated to go on sale at TEFAF, an Amsterdam-based arts fair, for a cool $10 million. Of course, the vintage map is basically completely inaccurate, but it’s still cool, right?