Bringing Britain’s Great Gardens to Life

“This exhibition celebrates the artistry of mapmakers and the vision of garden designers who shaped Britain’s most cherished landscapes,” says Daniel Crouch.

“These works not only chart land and ambition but offer a window onto the evolving

Pick of the Week

We’ve been chosen for Country Life’s ‘Pick of the Week’, with our selection of garden plans.

Capturing the original layouts of estates such as Chelsea and Kensington, these plans tell us of the historical designs of each

Books in Bloom at Firsts London

For Firsts, we’ll be presenting a selection of maps and plans for London’s most beautiful gardens.

This includes the formal organisation of Chelsea Physic Garden as surveyed by John Haynes in the eighteenth century.

Decorated with floral imagery

Selling Fast

In addition to the high profile clients expected of the world’s leading art fair, we’re delighted that TEFAF sales are pointing towards the return of the middle-class buyer.

Find the full scope of first-day sales from this

Trump’s Turbulence Won’t Faze the Art Market

Well-heeled collectors from China and America have ignored the latest threats of tariffs – it’s business as usual at TEFAF Maastricht. 

Visitors can find our striking Chinese ‘Blue Map’ of the world, published in 1811. Read the

Nine Promising Young Women at TEFAF

Our very own Ellida Minelli was interviewed by Harpers Bazaar at our stand in TEFAF. With a special place in her heart for women in art, Ellida is encouraged by young people attracted to art collecting

Opportunities to Watch

We’re featured in the Collectors’ Corner of the Knight Frank Wealth Report.

In a world of shifting geopolitical tides and data visualisation, maps have never been more relevant and collectable. A synthesis of art and science, maps

All the Fun of the Fair

Country Life covers TEFAF Maastricht delights this year, including our recreation of a seventeenth-century cartographer’s library.

Record Attendance at the Winter Show

Daniel Crouch Rare Books from London exhibited a selection from the world’s largest collection of playing cards, held by the French artist Jean Verame; the display includes a deck from the 12th century, uncut sheets of

“The booth may be this fair’s biggest draw”

For as long as the Winter Show has been running, Belgian artist Jean Verame has been collecting playing-cards. Daniel Crouch is offering the total collection – the world’s largest in private hands – for a seven

Private collection in one pop

There are playing cards, and then there are playing cards more than 600 years old. Daniel Crouch is hoping to sell 2,500 decks and associated items from a private collection in one pop. “We want to sell it

Bureaux Typographique

Two objects on view at the Winter Show that have defied the odds when it comes to survival are two wooden chests, each with more than a hundred slots containing thousands of adapted playing cards at

A Timeless Celebration of Art, History, and Community

One of the most prestigious art and antiques fairs in the world, the Winter Show presents 5,000 years of artistic and cultural heritage, all while supporting a noble cause. This year, The Times Square Chronicles have highlighted

The Winter Show is back

The Winter Show is the longest-running fair in the United States to be devoted to fine art, antiques, and design. With us at the show is the d’Angers maquette: a recently-discovered allegory of the printing of the

Silk, silver, and rawhide

The Winter Show opens its doors today. We’re exhibiting a magnificent collection of playing-cards from the Jean Verame collection – the largest in private hands. Including decks made of silk and silver, Apache cards on rawhide, and

Fish-catching at Firsts Hong Kong

Fine Books and Collections highlights Daniel Crouch Rare Books, who are exhibiting at Firsts Hong Kong. On display will be Cornelius De Jode’s rare circular map of China, China Regnum, from 1593. Featuring illustrations of East Asian

The Unseen Cultural History of the Middle East

This year, Abu Dhabi Art expanded with the birth of a new section called the Collector’s Salon, which features antiquarian works for the first time, ranging from manuscripts and astrolabes to armour and rare books. The section

Time Out’s Take on Firsts

Time Out magazine covers Firsts Hong Kong, a rare book fair held in the Maritime Museum this December. The article highlights Daniel Crouch for bringing the only Dutch edition of the first atlas of China produced in

The Marauders Map

Daniel Crouch Rare Books were the winning bidders on the Marauder’s Map from the Harry Potter film series. Sold on behalf of ‘The Boy Who Lived’ – David Holmes, Radcliffe’s stunt double for the first six Harry

The Tempus Christmas Gift Guide 2024

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Asala Collection Focus for Abu Dhabi Art

The focus of the week for Fine Books Magazine was on The Asala Collection, an archive of over 33,000 photographs of The United Arab Emirates, The Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Palestine and The Holy Land,

A Con-Man’s Fictional Country

Just over a year ago, Daniel Crouch came into possession of a 19th-century map drawn by a man named Gregor MacGregor. “The first thing you need to know about Gregor MacGregor, from the Clan Gregor, is

The Asala Collection

The Abu Dhabi Art Fair transcends a typical art fair. It serves as the pinnacle of a year-round programme of art installations, exhibitions, talks, and events. Daniel Crouch Rare Books will be exhibiting The Asala Collection, an

Collection of maps takes us to a world of fantasy

All the best books begin with a map. Daniel Crouch brainstormed this idea with daughter over a pint in a pub. Shortly afterwards, the collection of fictional cartography – I wisely started with a map! – began

Enthusiastic Crowds at Frieze

Frieze Masters is an art fair that brings attendees “face to face with millennia of art history,” and this year’s edition was no exception. It drew in buyers and institutions with a deliberate and conscientious collecting

Narnia Comes to Frieze

For Frieze Masters this year, our exhibition I wisely started with a map! traced over 2,700 years of fictitious cartography, featuring maps of much-beloved lands like Middle-Earth, Lilliput and Oz. We created a magical, Narnia-like stand,

2,700 Years of Fictional Cartography

From a first edition of Daniel Defoe’s Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, to a world map by Herman Moll, our stand at Frieze Masters this year included:

• Dante’s infernal survey of hell
• The first map of Atlantis, printed in 1665
• A
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The Cartography of Fictional Worlds

With Frieze Masters 2024 fast approaching, Daniel Crouch Rare Books has been featured in Country Life. Huon Mallalieu writes:

“Daniel Crouch, the London antiquarian map dealer, has created an exhibition of the cartography

London According to Daniel Crouch

Down Under

The Melbourne Rare Book Fair, taking place from July 25-27 at The University of Melbourne, is now in its 53rd Edition. Alongside other international exhibitors, Daniel Crouch Rare Books will be flying in from London to present

A chance find at a car-boot sale

Most Expensive AbeBooks Sales 2024

Mercator’s 1595 map of the world, in fine original colour, was one of the top ten sales from the recent AbeBooks.co.uk quarter. Daniel Crouch comments that this map is “The first edition of the first map in

There’s Nothing Like an Art Fair

Audubon Taking Flight at TEFAF Maastricht

TEFAF Maastricht will have John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-38). Priced at $12.5mn, this rare four-volume edition will be available through Daniel Crouch and Stéphane Clavreuil. With 435 etched and coloured plates, showing 1,065 individual birds and

“Maps are storytellers. The first thing that hooks me is what tale a map tells”

Nine Bookshops to Visit in London

With so many bookshops in London, here are nine of the must-visits. We’ve been counted as one of the top places for bibliophiles, especially for those wishing to explore atlases, sea charts, maps, plans, and voyages

Unlocking the Secrets of Time: The San Zeno Calendar and the Astronomicum Caesareum

By TEFAF Editors

The Best Booths at TEFAF Maastricht from Rediscovered Old Masters to a Collection of 160 Decks of Historical Playing Cards

By Devorah Lauter

ARTnews.com

The Best Booths at TEFAF Maastricht from Rediscovered Old Masters to a Collection of 160 Decks of Historical Playing Cards

By Devorah Lauter

ARTnews.com

The past’s treasures are not in Vogue, except at this Art Fair

By Scott Reyburn

The New York Times

The past’s treasures are not in Vogue, except at this Art Fair

By Scott Reyburn

The New York Times

Coming home: New York Winter Show staged at regular venue for first time since 2020

Laura Chesters

The Antiques Trade Gazette

Coming home: New York Winter Show staged at regular venue for first time since 2020

Laura Chesters

The Antiques Trade Gazette

Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale Launch Joint Event

In February this year, two leading French art fairs – the venerable Biennale, one of the world’s oldest art fairs (formerly known as La Biennale des Antiquaires) and the fast-growing Fine Arts Paris – announced that

Frieze Masters feels positive

Frances Allitt for the Antiques Trade Gazette

A Tour of Frieze Masters at Frieze Seoul

Frieze Seoul, Videos

Frieze Seoul Director Pat Lee ‘Younger Korean collectors are really trending’

Anny Shaw for the FT

Extraordinary Works from Medieval Europe to 20th-Century Korea: Frieze Masters at Frieze Seoul 2022

Frieze

What to see at TEFAF Maastricht 2022

Maria Howard for Apollo

A World of Wonder

Homes & Antiques Magazine

Blended Spirits: A Curious Objects Cocktail Hour at the Winter Show

From an early Renaissance list of statutes stipulating the amount of wine that every man, woman, and child of Bologna would receive daily, to a chunky twentieth-century cocktail ring, you’ll hear about wacky objects and the

Public cash call to help keep Armada maps in the UK

Antique Trade Gazette

Can the Spanish Armada maps be saved for the nation?

The Telegraph
By Joe Shute, Senior Feature Writer
Image: Heathcliff O'Malley/The Telegraph

The Bigger Picture Podcast

Capital Idea

Antique Collecting magazine

by May Geolot

When maps and caricatures collide

The Ephemerist - Autumn 2020

by May Geolot

The Objects with the Most Intriguing Provenance at TEFAF Maastricht

galeriemagazine.com

Stylish Aesthetes Came Out to the Winter Show’s Young Collectors Night

by Elise Taylor

Vogue.com

A First Look At The Winter Show

by Laura Beach

Antiques and the Arts Weelky

Object lessons: from a manuscript globe of Mars to a Baroque female self-portrait

The Art Newspaper, 31 January 2020

Celebrating art across globe at NYC’s Winter Show

Xinhua

Time travellers are packing their suitcases for New York this week

Irish Examiner

Editors’ Picks

Artnet News

Bathroom Reading

mentalfloss.com

The Best 18th-Century Toilets Were Designed to Look Like Books

atlasobscure.com

Story time

Antique Trade Gazette

2019 Guardian Fine Art Asia soon to be unveiled at an unprecedented scale at the end of October

people.cn

What to see at the 10th Edition Masterpiece London Art Fair

malymail.com

Masterpiece preview

by Caroline Roux

The Telegraph, 26 June 2019

The best of Masterpiece 2019

by Emily Tobin

Apollo Magazine

Preview Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair

Fine Books & Collections

Les Enluminures Returns to Masterpiece London

Fine Books & Collections

TEFAF 2019

Elle Decoration Russia

Tefaf Maastricht overhauls Modern art section in battle to stay on top in changing market

The Art Newspaper

TEFAF 2019: The talking points

Christies.com

Tefaf Maastricht’s new direction

Financial Times

Dutch stalwart juggles with a market in flux

The Art Newspaper

TEFAF Maastricht hosts virtual reality tour of 470-year-old Amsterdam map and four other fair highlights

Antique Trade Gazette

World for Sale at CA Book Fair

Fine Books & Collections

Collecting: India Art Fair mindful of #MeToo

Financial Time online

Abu Dhabi First Manuscripts Conference and Exhibition

AbuDhabiEvents

Abu Dhabi Exhibit Displays Rare-Edition Quran

International Quran News Agency

Despite – or due to – technology, collectors covet rare texts and charts

Japan Today

Highlights From TEFAF’s Fall Edition In New York:

forbes.com

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics”

With An Injection Of Funding From Art Basel Parent MCH…

Harper's Bazaar Arabia

Top 10 Must-sees at Masterpiece London

blouinartinfo.com

Mob Map Set To Fetch Tens Of Thousands

CBS Chicago

How Many Liquor Bottles Can You Find in This 1931 Map of Chicago?

Atlas Obscura

A rare 1931 map of Chicago’s ‘Gangland’ could be yours – for 20000 pounds

Chicago Tribune

Al Capone’s murder map of Chicago

Mail Online

Moonshine map

The Daily Telegraph

‘The map that changed the world’ offered at London gallery for £100,000

Antique Trade Gazette (online)

Unprecedented collection of maps of Japan offered by Daniel Crouch Rare Books in Tokyo

Antiques Trade Gazette (online)

Daniel Crouch Rare Books Move Heaven and Earth at TEFAF Maastricht 2018

Fine Books & Collections

Sneak preview of five TEFAF Maastricht highlights

Antiques Trade Gazette (online)

Daniel Crouch Rare Books Offers Collection of Maps of Japan at the Tokyo Book Fair, March 23-25

Fine Books & Collections

Dealer Daniel Crouch brings New York maps home to the Winter Antiques Show

Antiques Trade Gazette

How the filthy rich will spend their cash this Christmas

executivestyle.com.au

Daniel Crouch Rare Books Will Show Monumental City Maps at the Winter Antiques Show

Fine Books & Collections

A Dutch Treasure Trove Returns to New Amsterdam

The New York Times

Daniel Crouch Rare Books to Offer a Collection of Pocket Globes at TEFAF NY

finebooksmagazine.com

Why are museums taking patrons to Frieze?

ft.com

Bring on autumn hunting

Country Life

Curiosities and cabinets

FT Weekend

Maastricht, la ciudad en la que la feria de arte le gana la pulseada a las subastas

La Nacion

TEFAF Dealer Spotlight

Art + Auction Magazine

Will American buyers show up to Tefaf Maastricht?

The Art Newspaper

Tefaf apre lo scrigno dei suoi tesori: collezionisti in fila

Il Sole 24 Ore

Brexit at Tefaf

De Telegraaf

Daniel Crouch Rare Books Opens in New York

rarebookshub.com

Brexit-themed booth

FT.com

Daniel Crouch launches in New York with Burns Night celebration

Antiques Trade Gazette

Daniel Crouch Rare Books to Launch New York Gallery on Burns Night, Jan. 25

finebooksmagazine.com

The Art Market: it’s up to you, New York

The Financial Times

Crouch takes a $10m map to Manhattan fair and opens his own new gallery around the corner

Masterart.com

9 Rarities Appearing at a New York Art Fair’s Debut

The New York Times

16th century world map valued at $10m

Paul Fraser Collectibles

How London barely changed in 300 years

telegraph.co.uk

Oldest map of New York may become most expensive map ever sold at $10M

6sqft.com

From Old Master Paintings to Rare Gems, TEFAF Brings Top-Notch Wares to New York

artnet.com

The first map to include New York harbor is also the most expensive map ever

Time Out New York

The first map to include New York harbor is also the most expensive map ever

Time Out New York

Oldest map of NYC could fetch $10M

therealdeal.com

Early map of world, East Coast hits market for $10 million

miamiherald.com

$10 million map of New York Harbour to be offered at TEFAF New York

artdaily.org

The Oldest Map of New York Is Drawn on Goat Skin, Costs $10 Million

Bloomberg

Daniel Crouch Rare Books at the Inaugural TEFAF New York

Fine Books & Collections

Daniel Crouch Rare Books at the Inaugural TEFAF New York

Fine Books & Collections

What Sold So Far at Frieze Masters 2016?

Artnet news

What Sold So Far at Frieze Masters 2016?

Artnet news

Frieze London and Frieze Masters Report Strong Preview Sales

blouinartinfo.com

See What London Looked Like 600 Years Ago

Londonist

Why Frieze refuses to stand still

Antiques Trade Gazette

Preview: C&TH’s Highlights of Frieze Week 2016

Country & Town House online

New gallery for Daniel Crouch Rare Books opens in New York

Antiques Trade Gazette (online)

Alternative Collection

Art Collection + Design Magazine

What DC superheroes have in common with Renaissance giants

spearswms.com

Peak Bard

The TLS Blog

The world of Shakespeare and Cervantes on show

Antiques Trade Gazette

A rich record of two empires at their peak

The Times - Court & Social

Daniel Crouch Rare Books to bring five museum-quality pieces to TEFAF 2016

artdaily.org

British Library to put very big royal atlas online

The Art Newspaper

The Giver and the Gift: Daniel Crouch and Tom Harper

Spear's

Astral Time

VV Luxury Magazine

A Blue Map of China #Frieze

It was hanging there with majesty, an imposing size, a jaw-dropping blue: our favorite blue piece at the Frieze Art Show 2015 was a gigantic blue map presented by Daniel Crouch Rare Books, a specialist dealer

The Very Best of Frieze Masters

AnOther Magazine

Daniel Crouch ArtTactic Podcast

ArtTactic

Reality made visual

Australian Financial Review

‘The Map that Changed the World’ 200 years ago.

BBC Radio Oxford

I was there (and so was I!)

Show Boats International

Las curiosidades que esconden los tesoros de Tefaf Maastricht 2015

Revista de Arte

The riches of Maastricht measure up once more

Country Life

TEFAF, 7.000 años de arte

hoyesarte.com

Take A Look At Old Maps Of Florida And The World

wlrn.org

Daniel enters the Pirates’ den with sea charts of the Caribbean

Masterart.com

Fair trading

The Economist - Prospero blog

Life in the Frieze frame

Masterart.com

Frieze Masters: Daniel Crouch Rare Books

Apollo Magazine online

The greatest hits of London cartography: ‘Mapping London’ at Oxo Tower Wharf

Apollo Magazine

Daniel talks about Mapping London exhibition at gallery@oxo

BBC London radio

Daniel Crouch maps London

The Magazine Antiques

Old maps show Daniel the route to millions

The Jewish Chronicle

Daniel Crouch Rare Books presents ‘Mapping London’ as part of the programme for Totally Thames

artdaily.com

London maps: a unique view of the capital through classic cartography

The Guardian - online

Mapping London, Oxo Tower Wharf

Telegraph Luxury - online

Mapping London at The Gallery @ Oxo

visitlondon.com

Totally Thames: Mapping London

timeout.com

Masterpiece art fair opens for business

The Art Newspaper

TEFAF highlights

Antiques Trade Gazette

Old maps: stories in cartography

Alto Magazine

Route Masters

Brummell Magazine

Globetrotters’ passion: Collecting maps

BBC Capital (online)

7 things you probably didn’t know about maps

CNN Style

British Book Dealer Discovers Rare Maps of Houston That Predate the City

Houstonpress.com (blog)

Mapping Empire and Exploration in America

ArtfixDaily.com

International Events

Antique Trade Gazette

British Dealers Invade New York with a Trove of Paintings, Jewelry and Rare Maps…

ArtfixDaily.com

Daniel Crouch Rare Books Debuts Chicago Wage Maps At Inaugural Chicago International Map Fair

ArtfixDaily.com

Where the folks used to live

The Jewish Chronocle

London in vintage maps

Condé Nast Traveller

From 1572 to 2013, London’s history in maps

londonlovesbusiness.com

Mapping the World

A guide to rare maps.

Chart hits

Flanders Today

In with the new

FT - Life & Arts

Young dealers target museums

The Art Newspaper

Going Dutch

Apollo - The International Art Magazine

Collecting: Maps of the World

forbes.com

Masterpieces at Maastricht

Country Life

All Mapped Out

Country & Town House

Celtic cartography at the Caledonian Club

caledonianclub.com

Blurring the Lines Between Book and Art

Fine Books & Collections

Mapping the price of atlas

Financial Times

London fair boasts a cornucopia of antique maps and globes for sale

The Times

Money no object

Brummell

Spectacular Maps and Other Cartographic Items from Daniel Crouch Rare Books

AE Montly

Works on paper

Antiques Trade Gazette

A beginner’s guide – Tefaf Maastricht 25th Anniversary Focus

The Art Newspaper

The 45th California International Antiquarian Book Fair Comes to Pasadena

Book Tryst

Daniel Crouch Rare Books to exhibit the first atlas printed in colours

artdaily.org

New website pays tribute to print’s ongoing appeal

Print Week

London on the map

The Field

Daniel Crouch Rare Books creates new website with William Joseph

The Drum - Modern Markerting and Media

Mapping London from Daniel Crouch Rare Books

AE Monthly

Mapping London from Daniel Crouch Rare Books

AE Monthly

Literary circle

BA high life

Mapping Profits: Cartography and Fine Art Investment

CNBC.com

Antique maps chart London’s journey through history

The TImes

Permanent Marker

Hong Kong Tatler

Maps, Atlases, and Related Material from Daniel Crouch Rare Books

AE Monthly

Simms’ city

London Love Business

Daniel Crouch Rare Books Celebrates Asian Art In London

britevents.com

Dallas Art, Antique & Jewelry Show

FineBooksAndCollections.com

Ferdinand Verbiest maps and Antique Chinese Porcelain

artcalendr.com

K’oen-yu ts’iuen t’ou [Map of the World], by Ferdinand Verbiest, 1674

ARTFIX Daily.com

Crouch steps into St James’s

Antiques Trade Gazette

From TEFAF to Texas

Antiques Trade Gazette

How to invest in maps – Daniel Crouch for ‘The Market’

The Market

Market News

The Daily Telegraph

Putting Champagne on the Map!

I-bidder.com

Dürer head the Old Masters

Antiques Trade Gazette

Putting your name on the map

Antiques Trade Gazette

The Round-up of the Little Big things

De Barbari’s Map of Venice Sold for Seven Figure Sum.

New auction record for a print by Paul Gauguin

CPIFinancial.net

Brave new art dealers

Country Life

Nautical auctioneering: Georgina Adams dips into the vintage travel market

Financial Times

Acquisitions

The Art Newspaper

Works with pen, needle and scissors. Finely drawn maps, detailed tapestries and hand-cut-out paper collages in the Polish folk art tradition spice up the winter.

Country Life

Daniel Crouch Rare Books’ Sale Of De Barbari’s ‘Map Of Venice’

lussorian.com

Venetian dream for Daniel

Antiques Trade Gazette

Weekend Life

Pioneer Press

Flip That Map!

Geo2web

Value set at more than $600K

ReginaLeaderPost.com

An ancient view of Canada

The Windsor Star

Early Canadian map back on auction block

TheMontrealGazette.com

Minneapolis Institute of Arts unveiling major buy

Pioneer Press twincities.com

Charting the course of North American history

Antiques Trade Gazette

Bird’s-eye views

The Financial Times Weekend

Exceptional map goes for £170,000

The Western Daily Press

TREASURE MAP

Evening Express

Dealers Diary

Antiques Trade Gazette

Daniel Crouch Rare Books – The Gestetner Collection of Maritime Atlases & Voyages

lussorian.com

The Gestetner Collection of Maritime Atlases

spoonfed.com

Artcalendr 15.12.2010

artcalendr.com

Daniel Crouch Rare Books Exhibitions

britevents.com

Daniel Crouch Rare Books’ Inaugural Exhibition

LuxuryLifestyle.com

Art and Antiques December 2010 by Tim Forrest

London EXCLUSIVE Magazines

Daniel Crouch of Daniel Crouch Rare Books

Antiques Trade Gazette

Talking Shop

A Coveted Piece for Collectors

Discover the highlight of the TEFAF Maastricht fair – John James Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’ (1827 – 1838). Priced at $12.5m, it boasts 435 etched and coloured plates, making it a coveted piece for collectors and

Audubon Birds Taking Wing at TEFAF

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