Ptolemy's first projection, with the "finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator" ![[CRANE, Walter] World. Imperial Federation](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22196_1H.jpg?x80091)
The high watermark of the British Empire 
Rare Maps
Rare Atlases
Rare Books
Rare Prints
A rare Mediterranean ‘Straights Book’
£33,000
By GOOS, Pieter, 1669
Fine atlas of Southern Holland in full original colour
£18,000
By HOOGHE, Romeyn de; Jan & Caspar LUYKEN; Heyman van DIJCK, 1701.
First edition of Magini’s Italia
£40,000
By MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio, and Fabio, 1620
Beautiful Portolan of the Portuguese Coast
£50,000
By TEIXEIRA ALBERNAZ, João, 1648.
![PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro De la Sfera del Mondo. [and] De Le Stelle Fisse.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/22607_1H.jpg?x80091)
The first printed star atlas
£12,000
By PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro, 1540.
The world Columbus knew – Ptolemy’s Second Projection, and the first map signed by its author
£1,200,000
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, and edited by Nicolaus GERMANUS, 16 July 1482.
Complete set of the world’s first national wine atlas
£12,000
By LARMAT, Louis, 1941-1947.
A fine example of Camden’s Britannia in a contemporary binding
£16,000
By CAMDEN, William, 1600
The first atlas on Mercator’s Projection
£900,000
By DUDLEY, Robert, 1661.
Bordone’s Isolario in contemporary binding
£40,000
By BORDONE, Benedetto di, [c1565].
First atlas of China made in Europe
£35,000
By BLAEU, Jean, [1655].
![[CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY] Atlas, ay majmu' kharitat rasm al-ard...](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/16397_1H.jpg?x80091)
The earliest obtainable atlas printed in Arabic
£60,000
By [CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY], 1835].
