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A new book of maps explores the way humans interpret the world, writes Paul Best.

Daniel on Will Gompertz BBCRadio Oxford show, talking about ‘the map that changed the world’.

Embelished with 38 inset maps and views of the Mediterranean’s major ports, this early edition of a circa-1694 maritime chart by Romeyn De Hooghe almost guarantees conversation. Who hasn’t been at least somewhere recognizable on one or more of its three hand-coloured, engraved sheets, joined for a total width of 57 inches and a height of 24 inches? Its dealer, Daniel Crouch, can show this treasure at his homeport of London,or June 6 to 7 at the London Map Fair, Europe’s largest antique map market.

Quedan menos de dos semanas para que comience TEFAF MAASTRICHT 2015, que este año tendrá lugar del 13 al 22 de marzo. Esta gran feria del arte y las antigüedades, la más importante del mundo, contará con la presencia de más de 270 galerías procedentes de una veintena de países. Cinco de ellas son españolas: Deborah Elvira, Artur Ramon Art, Galería Caylus, Galería López de Aragón y Coll&Cortés Ltd. Una sexta, Elba Benítez, asistirá como invitada a la nueva sección Night Fishing, comisariada por Sydney Picasso y dedicada a la escultura postmoderna.

Even after 40 years, TEFAF never fails to delight, with enticing works of art of every material, creed and age of antiquity.

La XXVIII edición de la feria de arte más importante del mundo, TEFAF Maastricht, se celebrará del 13 al 22 de marzo de 2015 con la presencia de 274 galerías de 22 de países. En esta ocasión se mostrará un recorrido por 7.000 años de historia a través de más de 30.000 obras de arte, desde el Antiguo Egipto al ‘street art’ de Banksy. La ciudad holandesa también se prepara para la feria con una programación cultural paralela.

It may be fair to say many of us today will take out our phones or simply log into our GPS units in our cars and allow a soothing, distant voice to guide us to our destination.

LET us hope St. James’s rare map and atlas expert Daniel Crouch, one of the leading dealers in his field, has a relaxing Christmas because next month he again embarks on what must be one of the most formidable fair schedules of any international dealer.

IN 2012, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the founders of Frieze—the colourful, sometimes raucous art fair in Regent’s Park, London—launched a new, overlapping event nearby. Frieze Masters, they hoped, would demonstrate the ways in which old art influences what is being made now. In this context, “old”, like historic or traditional, is relative: 1999 is the fair’s cut-off point.

MID-October and the Frieze phenomenon is in full swing in London with press coverage blanketing not just the art columns but also the lifestyle, fashion and, of course, gossip sections.

Daniel Crouch Rare Books is the first books and maps dealer to take a stand at Frieze Masters.

There’s been a glut of map-related exhibitions in London recently, but this small free exhibition at the Oxo Tower makes a fine diversion. Tightly curated, it offers a sort of ‘greatest hits’ of London cartography, showcasing the chart-toppers from John Rocque and Harry Beck to Stephen Walter.