“First detailed map devoted to Canada”; the first published history of the French settlements in America; The Shirley – Lathrop Harper – Streeter – Javitch copy 
Rare Maps
Rare Atlases
Rare Books
Rare Prints
This selection of prints and books relating to art and architecture includes engraved portraits of celebrated mapmakers, antique binding papers, and fine prints and books showcasing artistic and architectural achievements from across continents and centuries.
![HOLLAR, W[enceslaus] [Stipled Muff and fur Boa]](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/24535_1H.jpg?fit=3983%2C3249&ssl=1)
![[ABBOTT, Edwin Abbott, pseud.] "A SQUARE" Flatland](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/24182_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C4545&ssl=1)
£1,800
By [ABBOTT, Edwin Abbott, pseud.] "A SQUARE", 1884.
![HOLLAR, W[enceslaus] [after] VAN DYCK, Anton[y] Marguerite Lemon Angloise](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/18369_1H.jpg?fit=2700%2C3500&ssl=1)
![HOLLAR, W[enceslaus] [Print of man in turban with moustache]](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/18277_1H.jpg?fit=3424%2C4371&ssl=1)
![[Publishers BASSET, André; DAUMONT, Jean-Francois; HUQUIER, Jacques-Gabriel; MAILLET, Nicolas Langlois; MONDARE, Louis Joseph, and others]. [Zograscope together with an album of 199 vues d'optique].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/17511_1H.jpg?fit=4111%2C3105&ssl=1)
£45,000
By [Publishers BASSET, André; DAUMONT, Jean-Francois; HUQUIER, Jacques-Gabriel; MAILLET, Nicolas Langlois; MONDARE, Louis Joseph, and others]., [c.1740].
![[HONDIUS, Colette] [Mercator Hondius Double Portrait] Gerardus Mercator natus Rupelmundae III non Martii anno CDDXII: visit ann. LXXXII. M. VIII. D. XXVI: denatus IV non. Decembris anno CDDXCIV. Iudocus Hondius natus in pago Flandriae dicto Wackene XVI Kalen Novembris anno CDDLXIII: vixit ann. XLVII. M. VII. D. XXIX: denatus XIV Kal. Martii anoo CDDCXII.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/12525_1H.jpg?fit=3500%2C2878&ssl=1)
£2,500
By [HONDIUS, Colette], 1613-1630].
![[ANONYMOUS] J. J. Scheuchzerus](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/17799_1H.jpg?fit=1897%2C2416&ssl=1)
![HOLLAR, W[enceslaus] [after Peter Paul RUBENS] Peter Paul Rubens](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/18246_1H.jpg?fit=2626%2C3500&ssl=1)
