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Browse our collection of rare books, antique books and first editions. Specialising in travel and discovery, including antiquarian books and works by explorers such as Columbus, Cook, Darwin, Drake, Krusenstern, La Perouse, Scott, and Vancouver.
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The first published scientific paper, in English, authored by a woman
£5,500
By HERSCHEL, Caroline Lucretia, 1787.
![PRY, Paul [pseud. of Thomas BURKE] with illustrations by Philip GOUGH For Your Convenience](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/23989_1H.jpg?x32239)
A verbal and visual map of London’s ‘cottages’
£7,500
By PRY, Paul [pseud. of Thomas BURKE] with illustrations by Philip GOUGH, 1937.
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Zatta do nicely
£1,500
By ZATTA, Antonio, 1780
![PRY, Paul [pseud. of Thomas BURKE] with illustrations by Philip GOUGH For Your Convenience](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/15395_1H.jpg?x32239)
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A verbal and visual map of London’s ‘cottages’
£2,000
By PRY, Paul [pseud. of Thomas BURKE] with illustrations by Philip GOUGH, 1937
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps
£30
By BROTTON, Jerry, 6 September 2012.
The Consolidation of Cartography
£18,000
By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1528.
Blaeu’s user’s manual for globes, spheres and sundials
£4,000
By BLAEU, Willem, 1642
![MANDERSON, Captain [James] An Enquiry into the causes of The Stream which sets through the Gulf of Florida into the Atlantic Ocean: with Directions for Navigating that Passage from Jamaica.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22654_1H.jpg?x32239)
Manderson’s pilot of the Gulf of Florida
£5,000
By MANDERSON, Captain [James], 1823
![VARIOUS [Collection of 28 pamphlets relating to Scotland, in particular the Scottish economy, the Darien Scheme, and the 1707 Union between England and Scotland]](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/12752_1H.jpg?x32239)
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A Scottish Sammelband
£30,000
By VARIOUS,
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Presentation copy of “the fullest compendium of all on why England should establish colonies in America”
£50,000
By EBURNE, Richard, 1624
The book documents the printed cartographic record of the discovery of the continent in 1492 to 1670
£250
By BURDEN, Philip D., 1996
![STANFIELD, Clarkson [Frederick] Stanfield's Coast Scenery. A Series of Views in the British Channel,](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1954_1H.jpg?x32239)
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Scenes from the English Channel
£350
By STANFIELD, Clarkson [Frederick], 1836
