Rare Maps
Rare Atlases
Rare Books
Rare Prints
![[Anonymous] [Universal Astrolabe]](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/21900_1H.jpg?x21979)
The Saphea – a wonder of Islamic science
£725,000
By [Anonymous], [c.1250]
A well-deserved prayer is made for the young man who smells the requisite flowers along the winding paths of geography
£40,000
By MELA, Pomponius., 18th July, 1482.
The first atlas printed in Venice, the first wholly printed in colours, incorporating the first map to indicate Japan, the second map in a Ptolemaic atlas to show America.
£150,000
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernardus SYLVANUS, 1511.
The first map to show Korea as a peninsula, the only known example of this issue
£27,500
By GONZALEZ dE MENDOZA, Juan; and Giuseppe ROSACCIO, 1589.
![LANE, [Thomas after ADAMS, Dudley; and FERGUSON, James] Lane's Improved Globe](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/21589_1H.jpg?x21979)
The Swan River Colony
£15,000
By LANE, [Thomas after ADAMS, Dudley; and FERGUSON, James], [c1833]
Fine atlas of Southern Holland in full original colour
£18,000
By HOOGHE, Romeyn de; Jan & Caspar LUYKEN; Heyman van DIJCK, 1701.
![CAMPEN, Jacob van; QUELLINUS, Hubertus Afbeelding van't Stadt Huys van Amsterdam [bound with:] Het eerste deel van de voornaemste Statuen ende Ciraten, vant konstrijck Stadhuys van Amstelredam, tmeeste in marmer gemaeckt, door Artus Quellinus, beelthouwer der voorseyde Stadt.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20713_1H.jpg?x21979)
The magnificent design of the Stady Huys, including the mosaic of the discovery of New Zealand
£10,000
By CAMPEN, Jacob van; QUELLINUS, Hubertus, 1665 and 1668.
Beautiful Portolan of the Portuguese Coast
£50,000
By TEIXEIRA ALBERNAZ, João, 1648.
![PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro De la Sfera del Mondo. [and] De Le Stelle Fisse.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22607_1H.jpg?x21979)
The first printed star atlas
£12,000
By PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro, 1540.
The world Columbus knew – Ptolemy’s Second Projection, and the first map signed by its author
£1,200,000
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, and edited by Nicolaus GERMANUS, 16 July 1482.
![[ANONYMOUS, after MOLL, Herman] A Correct Globe with the new Discoveries. [and] A Correct Globe with ye New Constelations of Dr. Halley &c.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/15661_1H.jpg?x21979)
Showing the track of Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage
£9,000
By [ANONYMOUS, after MOLL, Herman], c.1775].
Complete set of the world’s first national wine atlas
£12,000
By LARMAT, Louis, 1941-1947.
