Rare Maps
Rare Atlases
Rare Books
Rare Prints
‘Nahval. If anyone eats of this fish, he will die immediately’
£12,000
By ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1595].
![JEFFERYS, [Thomas] The West India Atlas](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2589_1H.jpg?x80091)
Out of stock
‘…A Compendious Description of the West-Indies’
£55,000
By JEFFERYS, [Thomas], 1780 [–1782].
![[DARTON, William] A Voyage of Discovery ; or, the Five Navigators. An Entirely New Game.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1296_1H.jpg?x80091)
Out of stock
“… an ingenious game, which… affords such amusement and instruction to our youthful friends… “
£4,500
By [DARTON, William], 1836
Out of stock
“… one of the greatest maps ever published.”
£5,000
By ARROWSMITH, Aaron, November, 1st, 1802.
Out of stock
“… one of the greatest maps ever published.”
£2,500
By ARROWSMITH, Aaron, November, 1st, 1802.
Out of stock
“… one of the most beautiful topographical works of this century”
£6,000
By ANICH, Peter, and HUEBER, Blasius, 1774
“… some of the most dreaded tropical diseases…”
£500
By ARTZYBASHEFF, Boris, May 1, 1944.
Out of stock
“… the beauty and the magnificence of the surrounding scenery, cannot be surpassed by many places, in the world…”
£3,000
By CROSS, Joseph, June 26th, 1826.
Out of stock
“… the first hint of Columbus’s discoveries on a printed world map.”
£50,000
By REISCH, Gregor, 1504
Out of stock
“… they have made Italy above 130 Miles longer than it realy is.”
£2,000
By WILLDEY, George, [c.1715].
Out of stock
“…extremely rare map survives in just three known examples”
£45,951
By REID, John, c.1687
![[after ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Gilles and Didier] Amerique partie Septrenionale [and] Amerique partie Meridionale.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/21880_1H.jpg?x80091)
“…n’a ete découverte que depuis 276 ans”
£6,000
By [after ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Gilles and Didier], [1767]
Out of stock
Catalogue XLIV: XX Marks the Spot – or Women with Latitude
Since early modern times, the artistic, printing and publishing world, including cartography, has on occasion, provided women with a means of agency, expression, and visibility. The women cartographers in this selection have, against the odds, been able to publicly claim their work.
A ground-breaking work on public health and prostitution
£1,500
By PARENT-DUCHATELET, Alexandre J.B., 1836.
![[CITY OF LIVERPOOL] Beatles Map](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/23988_1H.jpg?x80091)
We didn’t like the colour
£500
By [CITY OF LIVERPOOL], 1974].
![[ANONYMOUS] Bagdad](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/24035_1H.jpg?x80091)
“How beautiful are the one hundred sweet honey’s who are waiting for you”
£600
By [ANONYMOUS], c.1950].
Arrowsmith’s Ireland
£3,000
By ARROWSMITH, Aaron, 1811. Additions and Corrections to 1821.
Charting voyages to India and China
£5,000
By HEATHER, William [and], J[ames] W[illiam] NORIE, Sept. 12th, 1812. [but] 1815.
![[SAXTON, Christopher] [The Shires of England and Wales...](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/24070_1H.jpg?x80091)
Jeffery’s edition of Saxton’s Atlas of England and Wales
£30,000
By [SAXTON, Christopher], c1749].
Out of stock
The first published scientific paper, in English, authored by a woman
£5,500
By HERSCHEL, Caroline Lucretia, 1787.
Smith’s rare geological survey of Norfolk
£7,500
By SMITH, William, January 1st, 1819.
![[ANONYMOUS] [Playing Card with concealed escape Map]](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/24047_3H.jpg?x80091)
Out of stock
A POW’s Trump Card
£2,500
By [ANONYMOUS], c1945].
!["J.B."; after Thomas BOWEN North America [and] South America.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/24042_1H.jpg?x80091)
Out of stock
“It is amazing to me,” said Bingley, “how young ladies have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are”
£25,000
By "J.B."; after Thomas BOWEN, 1778 [and] 1779.
![[HARVEY, William, as "ALEPH'; after Eliza Jane TENNANT, otherwise known as "Lilian LANCASTER"] Geographical Fun;](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/24041_1H.jpg?x80091)
“A Present from the Isle of Man” (front cover)
£6,000
By [HARVEY, William, as "ALEPH'; after Eliza Jane TENNANT, otherwise known as "Lilian LANCASTER"], [c.1868].
