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In this catalogue we focus on the early modern world – roughly the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries – when exploration, celestial observation, and mathematical map-making transformed how the globe was measured and imagined. In its pages you’ll find charts and books that trace that shift, from tentative coastlines to confident global projections, showing how paper, ink, and ingenuity turned unknown oceans into navigable space on both the library shelf and in the human mind.
£15
Cities, like people, are full of contradictions. They promise order but grow through chaos. They are built on careful plans, yet shaped by imagination and memory. Cities, like dreams, a collaboration between Daniel Crouch Rare Books and Michael Hoppen Gallery for TEFAF Maastricht 2026, explores how cities have been pictured and understood across three centuries - how they have been drawn from above and experienced from within.
The exhibition brings two very different ways of seeing together. Monumental eighteenth‑century town plans - made at a time when faith in reason and measurement was at its height - are shown next to Sohei Nishino’s large‑scale photographic dioramas, dreamlike reconstructions of the same cities created from thousands of individual photographs. These pairings reveal what the city has always been: both a system and an emotion, something that can be mapped and yet never truly contained.
£400
We are delighted to present The Roger Cline Collection - The story of London told in 40,000 books, maps, and prints spanning 400 years - the largest such collection in private hands.
£100
Rosie and David Temperley believe that “communication, cooperation, and creativity” are the three key tenets for social cohesion, and life.
The Temperley Collection, their vast accumulation of books and ephemera, acquired over more than sixty years, is a blinding reflection of this bright ideal, illuminated via the ingenuity of a myriad of papery arts. The result is a cornucopia of marvels and delights that (literally) spring, bounce, twist, turn, fold, flap and flip – off, on and through the pages of thousands of books, cards, prints, and toys.
Over the course of the 500 years that the Temperley Collection spans, some of the most enlightened minds have used these methods to communicate the scientific and religious mysteries of our heavens and earth. Above all, the Temperley Collection practices what it preaches: it is a library that refuses to stay put on the shelves; it is an experience which demands immersion and participation.
£4,000
By BECK, Harry, [January, 1933].
£15,000
By FADEN, William, April 30, 1778.
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£18,000
By SAUTHIER, Claude Joseph, 25 February 1777.
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