rare book Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/rare-book/ Rare Maps, Vintage Maps, Antique Maps, Rare Atlases, Rare Books Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:53:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/dcrb-favicon-100x100.png rare book Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/rare-book/ 32 32 238712441 Rare English edition of Colom’s Mediterranean Sea pilot https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/rare-english-edition-of-coloms-mediterranean-sea-pilot/ Sat, 30 Nov 2024 06:51:07 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/rare-english-edition-of-coloms-mediterranean-sea-pilot/ By COLOM, Arnold, 1660

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]]> Folio (420 by 375mm), engraved title-page, nineteen double-page engraved charts, numerous woodcut charts and coastal profiles within text, contemporary English panelled calf, rebacked.

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]]> 24935 The first ‘atlas’ https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-first-atlas/ Thu, 14 Nov 2024 23:44:03 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-first-atlas/ By MERCATOR, Gerard; Jodocus HONDIUS, 1613

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]]> Folio (480 by 330 mm), engraved title heightened in gold, (3) pp, engraved portrait of Mercator and Hondius, (9) pp., 374 pp., 45 double-page engraved maps, engraved half title (Galliae) heightened in gold, 30 double-page and one single-page engraved maps, engraved half title (Germaniae) heightened in gold, 29 double-page engraved maps, engraved half title (Italiae, Slavoniae et Graeciae) heightened in gold, 45 double-page engraved maps, 18 ff, full original hand colour throughout, 150 maps in total, contemporary mottled calf, spine divided into seven sections with raised bands, gilt, restoration to capitals and lower back.

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]]> 24493 Jewish East London https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/jewish-east-london-3/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:55:36 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/jewish-east-london-3/ By ARKELL, George E., 1899

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]]> 27295 The Poly-olbion https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-poly-olbion-2/ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 17:59:48 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-poly-olbion-2/ By DRAYTON, Michael, 1622

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]]> Folio (287 by 202mm), preliminary page to frontispiece, engraved frontispiece, dedication to Prince Henry of Wales, table of contents, note to the reader, note on illustrations, pp. 168, 31 double-paged engraved maps, contemporary calf, spine in eight compartments, gilt title.

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]]> 24558 The first printed star atlas https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-first-printed-star-atlas-2/ Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:37:37 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-first-printed-star-atlas-2/ By PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro, 1540.

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]]> Quarto (215 by 155mm), 47 full-page woodcut star maps, minor dampstaining to lower margin of a few tables, contemporary ownership inscription to title and last page, contemporary vellum.

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]]> 33686 The Earl of Lonsdale’s copy of Thompson’s Alcedo https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-earl-of-lonsdales-copy-of-thompsons-alcedo/ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 12:43:35 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-earl-of-lonsdales-copy-of-thompsons-alcedo/ By ALCEDO, Antonio de, and G.A. THOMPSON, 1816; [text] James Carpenter, [1812-1815].

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]]> Folio, (660 by 525mm) small format index leaf mounted on front pastedown (otherwise mounted on guards throughout), five wall maps, hand-coloured in outline, by Aaron Arrowsmith, on nineteen double-page or folding engraved sheets, each numbered on a small early paper label pasted to the verso of each sheet (“North America” on three sheets [numbered “I”- “III”]; “United States” on four sheets [“IV”-“VII”]; “Mexico” on four sheets [“VIII”-“XI”]; “West Indies” on two sheets [“XII”-“XIII”]; “South America” on six sheets [“XIV”-“XIX”]), full calf, with blind stamp coat of arms of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale, to upper board, spine in eight compartments separated by raised bands, gilt; [with] Five volumes, quarto (270 by 210mm), 2pp. preliminary list of subscribers in first volume, contemporary calf, with blind stamp coat of arms of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale, to upper board gilt, spine in six compartment separated by raised bands gilt.

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]]> 22952 “a true and exact representation of the Earth and Heavens” https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/a-true-and-exact-representation-of-the-earth-and-heavens/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:06:22 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/a-true-and-exact-representation-of-the-earth-and-heavens/ By SENEX, John, 1718

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]]> Octavo (157 by 88mm), [I-X], 1-144, [1-6], title page with printer’s device, numerical tables throughout, free end paper lacking, in original calf, spine in five sections separated by raised bands, loss to calf.

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