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This September Daniel Crouch Rare Books presents a special pop-up exhibition of London maps at the Gallery@OXO on the South Bank as part of the city’s multi-event Totally Thames festival. The earliest work, the first printed map of London, dates to 1572, while the most re¬cent, a depiction of subterranean London, was created two years ago by Stephen Walter for the London Transport Museum in honor of the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. The assembled collection visually encapsu¬lates the history of the British capital.

Daniel had a chat with Jo Good and Simon Lederman about the Mapping London exhibition at gallery@oxo, as part of the Totally Thames festival.

One of the earliest maps of London is being put on show in the capital this week by a Jewish expert.

LONDON.- From the 4th – 14th September 2014 (preview 3rd September) the London-based dealer will host a pop-up selling exhibition at the Oxo Tower’s gallery@oxo, featuring some of the most important large-scale printed surveys of London ever produced – including ground-breaking maps of Georgian London, an exceptionally rare trade card map of Islington and a contemporary map of the bunkers and tunnels of subterranean London.

Part of the Totally Thames festival, Mapping London is an exhibition of maps of the capital, dating from 1572 to 2013. Curated by Daniel Crouch, a leading specialist map dealer, it runs from 4 to 14 September at the gallery at Oxo Tower Wharf.

Daniel Crouch Rare Books presents exhibition as part of the programme for Totallly Thames.

London-based dealer Daniel Crouch Rare Books hosts a pop-up selling exhibition at the OXO Gallery as part of the programme for the Totally Thames festival.

As part of Totally Thames, Daniel Crouch Rare Books brings a selling exhibition of London maps to the Oxo Tower – and the show includes some stunning rarities. You’ll be able to see the first printed map of London, published by Braun and Hogenberg in 1574, as well as an example from the time of Oliver Cromwell, on which you can see ferrymen and barges setting about their work, and several large-scale Georgian examples by John Rocque. To bring things up to date, there’s Stephen Walter’s incredibly detailed contemporary map, investigating subterranean London with its sewers, lost rivers and transport tunnels, which was commissioned by the London Transport Museum for the Underground’s 150th anniversary.

Event timed during Wimbledon targets “cultural tourists” as well as connoisseurs, and draws celebs from Rod Stewart to Charles Saatchi.

It may only be his fourth exhibiting at TEFAF, but London dealer Daniel Crouch Rare Books made a key sale over the first weekend of the fair: a pair of 17th century globes by Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571-1638), with an asking price of £1.2m.

Maps from centuries past served a dual purpose. They had a practical use as guides for explorers and navigators. But maps also highlighted places unknown to populations curious about what lay beyond their shores. Daniel Crouch specialises in antique maps, atlases and sea charts. He founded his company Daniel Crouch Rare Books in 2011 and has a collection of some of the world’s oldest and rarest maps. Crouch says: “People have a fascination in exploration and discovery. Maps are not only beautiful works of art but scientifically fascinating and historically interesting.”

Antique maps provide a fascinating insight into how the planet was once perceived and have great investment potential, too, as the experts from this rarefied world can verify.