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Daniel Crouch Rare Books Will Show Monumental City Maps at the Winter Antiques Show
5 December 2017
Daniel Crouch Rare Books will bring maps of three of the most exciting cities in the world to the Winter Antique Show, which runs from 19 – 28 January in New York’s Park Avenue Armory.
A Dutch Treasure Trove Returns to New Amsterdam
27 October 2017
The European Fine Art Fair, known as TEFAF and held every March in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht, had a reputation for stability: the same dealers year after year, bringing their choicest paintings, furniture, and diamond brooches to a well-heeled collector base. But a roiling art market, and increasingly eclectic tastes, led the Dutch fair to set out for New York — and to establish a pair of satellite events, spring and fall, that brought the gentility of Maastricht to a new American crowd.
Daniel Crouch Rare Books to Offer a Collection of Pocket Globes at TEFAF NY
20 October 2017
Before the iPhone and Google maps, the must-have portable geographical gadget was the pocket globe.
Why are museums taking patrons to Frieze?
5 October 2017
How curated yours are helping institutions to build relationships with their supporters
Bring on autumn hunting
4 October 2017
As masterpieces become harder to locate, London’s October fairs offer rarities aplenty
Curiosities and cabinets
1 October 2017
Frieze Masters | The fair is expanding beyond fine art to include artefacts, tribal art, ceramics, rare books and textiles. Emma Crichton-Miller reports
Maastricht, la ciudad en la que la feria de arte le gana la pulseada a las subastas
12 March 2017
La cita holandesa confirma la tendencia de 2016: los coleccionistas prefieren la confidencialidad de las compras privadas; claves de la presencia argentina
TEFAF Dealer Spotlight
10 March 2017
Daniel Crouch
Daniel Crouch Rare Books, London and New York
Specialty: Rare books and maps
Will American buyers show up to Tefaf Maastricht?
10 March 2017
With two new New York editions, and US collectors curtailing international travel for economic and political reasons, some dealers are sceptical—but remain hopeful
Tefaf apre lo scrigno dei suoi tesori: collezionisti in fila
9 March 2017
Tefaf a Maastricht, la fiera d’arte e antiquariato più importante del mondo che si svolge nel polo fieristico MECC stamattina ha aperto i battenti ai collezionisti e accoglierà i visitatori fino al 19 marzo. Già ieri sera una assaggio delle opere in fiera è stata offerta ai collezionisti ospiti della cena di gala: i 275 galleristi presenti con opere dall’epoca egizia ai giorni nostri erano negli stand per gli ultimi ritocchi. Le opere rigorosamente sottoposte al vetting (verifica di autenticità e provenienza) hanno un valore assicurato di oltre 3 miliardi di euro. La fiera, palcoscenico per mercanti d’arte e specialisti di tutto il mondo, presenta opere preziose, in una panoramica di oltre 7.000 anni di storia, acune sono offerte sul mercato per la prima volta dopo decenni.
Brexit at Tefaf
7 March 2017
Politics and arts come together at the thirtieth edition of Tefaf Maastricht, which opens Friday 10th of March. The British dealer in rare books and prints Daniel Crouch is furnishing a themed stand on Europe and Brexit. ‘A joke of course, but with a serious tone to it,’ he says. Because through a variety of costly atlases and old maps he makes it clear to the public that our idea of the age-old European nation states with each their own national identity is nothing more than a myth.
Daniel Crouch Rare Books Opens in New York
3 February 2017
Daniel Crouch Rare Books of 4 Bury Street, St. James, London has recently opened a shop in New York at 24 East 64th Street. The firm is a specialist in antique atlases, maps, plans, sea charts and voyages dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and is a partnership founded by Daniel Crouch and Nick Trimming.