Rare Maps
Rare Atlases
Rare Books
Rare Prints
“Outlandish creatures and beings that were thought to inhabit the furthermost parts of the earth”.
£24,000
By SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann
, June 1493.
![[CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY] Atlas, ay majmu' kharitat rasm al-ard...](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/16397_1H.jpg?fit=3500%2C2249&ssl=1)
The earliest obtainable atlas printed in Arabic
£60,000
By [CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY], 1835].
New York “the capital of the 13 United States of America”
£3,500
By BOWLES, Carington, [c.1790]
An exceptionally fine example of Blaeu’s great work on the towns of the Netherlands bound in full red morocco with the coats-of-arms of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
£300,000
By BLAEU, Willem and Johannes BLAEU., [1652].
The first map in an atlas to name America, and Ptolemy’s third projection
£200,000
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS', 1541.
One of the largest world maps ever printed
£180,000
By VERBIEST, Ferdinand, 1860].
Superb facsimile of the Vatican’s Ptolemy Cosmographia of 1472
£6,000
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius,
![DARTON, William Junior Walker's Geographical Pastime, or Tour Through the Eastern Hemisphere, or Old World. An Amusing and Instructive Game. [and] Walker's Geographical Pastime, or Tour Through the Western Hemisphere, or New World. An Amusing and Instructive Game.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/12531_1H.jpg?fit=1700%2C899&ssl=1)
A pair of rare game maps of the world
£5,000
By DARTON, William Junior, 1834
From the inventory of the Van Keulen family of cartographers
£60,000
By CLOPPENBURG, Johannes, Anno 1630.
The Earl of Lonsdale’s copy of Thompson’s Alcedo
£65,000
By ALCEDO, Antonio de, and G.A. THOMPSON, 1816; [text] James Carpenter, [1812-1815].
A presentation copy of the last gasp for Edmund Halley’s theory for the determination of longitude by magnetic declination
£50,000
By CHURCHMAN, John, 1790.
![LA SALE, Antoine de La Salade, nouvelleme[n]t imprimee](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/21873_1H.jpg?fit=3500%2C3224&ssl=1)
Salad Days
£75,000
By LA SALE, Antoine de, 1521].
