rare map Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/rare-map/ Rare Maps, Vintage Maps, Antique Maps, Rare Atlases, Rare Books Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:09:44 +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 map Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/rare-map/ 32 32 238712441 First state of Beck’s iconic tube map https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/first-state-of-becks-iconic-tube-map-4/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:26:20 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/first-state-of-becks-iconic-tube-map-4/ By BECK, Harry, [January, 1933].

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Chromolithograph plan, title, list of places of interest and theatres to verso.

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Ukraine and Russia https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/ukraine-and-russia/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:29:28 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/ukraine-and-russia/ By [PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius], 1507].

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Double-page engraved map, on two sheets joined, on laid paper, later manuscript annotations in red, no watermark, two tears to lower left skilfully repaired.

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A chart of the Bahamas https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/a-chart-of-the-bahamas/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 01:59:28 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/a-chart-of-the-bahamas/ By QUESADA, Jose Maria de & NOGUERA, Juan., 1858-66.

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Engraved chart, with contemporary hand-colour in part.

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Investors wanted for Law’s Mississippi Company: a rare description of Louisiana, designed to lure capital https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/investors-wanted-for-laws-mississippi-company-a-rare-description-of-louisiana-designed-to-lure-capital/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 01:16:49 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/investors-wanted-for-laws-mississippi-company-a-rare-description-of-louisiana-designed-to-lure-capital/ By WEIGEL, Christopher, 1734] and [c1720].

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Engraved map (315 by 415mm) in contemporary hand colour; and broadside in folio (paper size 365 by 450mm), a tear to lower margin not affecting the text.

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Speed’s battle map https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/speeds-battle-map/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:21:16 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/speeds-battle-map/ By SPEED, John, [1627-1632].

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Double-page engraved map with hand-colour.

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The most important maps of the Middle East and Arabia published in the sixteenth century https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-most-important-maps-of-the-middle-east-and-arabia-published-in-the-sixteenth-century/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:46:37 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-most-important-maps-of-the-middle-east-and-arabia-published-in-the-sixteenth-century/ By GASTALDI, Giacomo & LAFRERI, Antonio, 1561].

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Pair of engraved maps, each on two sheets joined, watermark of ladder in shield under six-pointed star (Woodward 253), to all four sheets.

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Large plan of 1930s Hong Kong showing the cyclone scale https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/large-plan-of-1930s-hong-kong-showing-the-cyclone-scale/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 02:29:19 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/large-plan-of-1930s-hong-kong-showing-the-cyclone-scale/ By [SANXING PRESS], c1931].

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Chromolithograph plan, inset maps of Kowloon, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and the New Territories, some strengthening to folds, a few old repairs.

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Cruchley’s New Plan of London in Miniature https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/cruchleys-new-plan-of-london-in-miniature-4/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:30:12 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/cruchleys-new-plan-of-london-in-miniature-4/ By CRUCHLEY, [George Frederick], [1851].

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Engraved plan, dissected and mounted on linen, hand-coloured in outline,
housed within original green marbled paper slipcase, with publisher’s
printed yellow label, rubbed.

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Longitude and Latitude on a map of the Qing Empire https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/longitude-and-latitude-on-a-map-of-the-qing-empire/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:50:46 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/longitude-and-latitude-on-a-map-of-the-qing-empire/ By Dong Fangli (Youcheng) 董方立(佑誠) (1791-1823), Li Zhaoluo 李兆洛 (1769-1841), 1865 [1832].

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Wood-block printed map of the unified Qing Empire, comprising sixty-four sheets. Two titles in seal script to upper centre and upper right in two lines.

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A previously unrecorded state of a rare promotional broadside for an astronomical clock https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/a-previously-unrecorded-state-of-a-rare-promotional-broadside-for-an-astronomical-clock/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:40:52 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/a-previously-unrecorded-state-of-a-rare-promotional-broadside-for-an-astronomical-clock/ By NAYLOR, Joseph, [c.1752].

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Separately published broadside engraved map.

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