![[T. A.] Bird's Eye View of the General Line of the Tottenham and Farringdon Street Extension Railway](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/12377_1H.jpg?fit=1700%2C1243&ssl=1)
Tottenham and Farringdon Extension Railway 
‘Key to the New World and Rampart of the West Indies’ (Spanish Royal Decree) 
“Improve the Moment” (motto of the Mechanic Library Society) ![DANIELL, W[illiam] To the Right Honble. Lord Hawkesbury, &c. &c. This perspective Sketch illustrating a design submitted to the consideration of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the improvements of the Port of London](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/12492_1H.jpg?fit=1700%2C983&ssl=1)
The Port of London as it never was 
Rare Maps
Rare Atlases
Rare Books
Rare Prints
2,700 Years of Fictional Cartography
From a first edition of Daniel Defoe’s Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, to a world map by Herman Moll, our stand at Frieze Masters this year included:
- Dante’s infernal survey of hell
- The first map of Atlantis, printed in 1665
- A map of ‘Poyais’ created by the fraud Gregor MacGregor, who convinced hundreds of people to invest in and settle in this fictional place
- The first printed map of Oz, from Munchkinland to the Emerald City
- F. Scott Fizgerald’s map of East Egg, West Egg, and the Valley of Ashes
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