Rare Maps
Rare Atlases
Rare Books
Rare Prints
The first atlas on Mercator’s Projection
£900,000
By DUDLEY, Robert, 1661.
The Great Southern Continent
£450,000
By TEIXEIRA, Luis, 1604.
![HUANG, Qianren [Complete Geographical Map of the Everlasting Unified Qing Empire].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20129_1H.jpg?fit=3500%2C1974&ssl=1)
The “Blue Map” of the World
£400,000
By HUANG, Qianren, 1811].
De Jode’s striking world map on a north and south polar projection
£40,000
By DE JODE, Cornelis, 1593.
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].
Showing the results of Bering’s expedition to the Kamchatka Peninsula
£12,000
By HILL, Nathaniel., 1754 [but c.1755 or later].
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.
![FORTIN, [Jean] and BUY DE MORNAS, M. [Claude] [A set of two globes and one armillary sphere]](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/15693_1H.jpg?fit=5000%2C2418&ssl=1)
“Ingenieur-Mechanicien pour les Globes et Spheres”
£40,000
By FORTIN, [Jean] and BUY DE MORNAS, M. [Claude], 1768 [celestial globe dated 1770, armillary dated 1773].
From the inventory of the Van Keulen family of cartographers
£60,000
By CLOPPENBURG, Johannes, Anno 1630.
![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].
De Jode’s rare world map
£24,000
By DE JODE, Cornelis, 1593].
A toymaker’s globe
£15,000
By MINSHULL, George after LANE, Nicholas, 1816.
