Unrecorded example of Melish’s map of Pennsylvania 
“the great prose epic of the Elizabethan period” – the first English map on Mercator’s projection; the first map to name Lake Ontario; and one of the first maps to use the name “Virginia” 
Rare Maps
Rare Atlases
Rare Books
Rare Prints
![BLAEU, Willem Janszoon [Pair of nine-inch table globes].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/35304_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C2694&ssl=1)
![NOLLI, Giovanni Battista [Plan of Rome] Alla Santita di Nostro Signore Papa Benedetto XIV La Nuova Topografia di Roma](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/34132_1H.jpg?fit=1134%2C1068&ssl=1)
![[DOIN, Ochikochi (i.e. Fujii HANCHI), after] Bunken Edo oezu.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/24668_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C3313&ssl=1)
£20,000
By [DOIN, Ochikochi (i.e. Fujii HANCHI), after], c.1803.
Out of stock
£70,000
By APIANUS, Petrus; and Gemma FRISIUS, 1545
![PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [Untitled World Map].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/24625_2H.jpg?fit=4000%2C2882&ssl=1)
![FLORIANO, Antonio [Untitled Map of the World].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/24612_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C2412&ssl=1)
£220,000
By LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen; and Bernard PALUDANUS, 1638.
£550,000
By MONTALBODDO, Antonio Fracanzano da; translated into Latin by Archangelo MADRIGNANO, 1508.
![SENEX, John [and Mary SENEX] A New & Correct Globe of the Earth.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/24423_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C4400&ssl=1)
![SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon; [translated by William PHILLIP] The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage made by William Cornelison Schouten of Horne.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/24359_1H.jpg?fit=8633%2C4483&ssl=1)
£95,000
By SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon; [translated by William PHILLIP], 1619.
