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://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2589_1H.jpg?fit=1700%2C1063&ssl=1)
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://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1296_1H.jpg?fit=1700%2C1544&ssl=1)
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
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://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/21880_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C3196&ssl=1)
“…n’a ete découverte que depuis 276 ans”
£6,000
By [after ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Gilles and Didier], [1767]
![WILLDEY, George [Map screen].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2997_1H.jpg?fit=1700%2C1416&ssl=1)
Out of stock
“…one of the largest, beautifullest, most useful, and diverting Ornaments…”
£85,000
By WILLDEY, George, [1721].
Catalogue XLV: Under the Southern Cross – The Michael & Wendy Brown Collection
£50
The discovery and exploration of Australia has long been framed as both an act of chance and of growing curiosity, shaped by the vast seas of the southern hemisphere and guided by the faint patterns of the stars.
The 111 maps and books of the Michael and Wendy Brown Collection tell this story from the creatures of ancient European myth, via the monsters of colonialism, to the behemoth of globalisation and modern multi-cultural Sydney.
“Then the map was drawn for you, and I am much mistaken if it does not tell you plainly where to go” — ‘The Hobbit’
£1,500
By TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel; and BAYNES, Pauline, 1970.
Out of stock
“the last word in seventeenth-century imagery of Rome” (Maier)
£20,000
By FALDA, Giovanni Battista, 1705.
![[ANONYMOUS]. [Ducato di Milano].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/24034_1H.jpg?fit=4000%2C3334&ssl=1)
The Dutchy of Milan in Manuscript
£5,000
By [ANONYMOUS]., [before 1767].
The earliest extant plan of London
£7,500
By BRAUN, Georg and Franz HOGENBERG, 1575].
![[LANDSAT, attributed to] [Aerial photograph of Dubai].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/24380_1H.jpg?fit=7092%2C8132&ssl=1)
Dubai from the sky
£30,000
By [LANDSAT, attributed to], [c1984-1985].
The first “good road map” of Barbados
£600
By ANDERSON, Margaret Swainson, 1956.
![LANDSAT [Group of four aerial photographs of Abu Dhabi].](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/24376_1H.jpg?fit=11453%2C9941&ssl=1)
Abu Dhabi from above
£80,000
By LANDSAT, 1984-1985.
![[BRAUN, Georg and Franz HOGENBERG] Londinium Feracissmi Angliae Regni Metropolis.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/24375_1H.jpg?fit=8358%2C6335&ssl=1)
The earliest extant plan of London
£15,000
By [BRAUN, Georg and Franz HOGENBERG], 1572].
![SAXTON, Christopher [Westmorland and Cumberland] Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comit](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/24374_1H.jpg?fit=6896%2C5150&ssl=1)
Out of stock
The first printed map of Westmorland and Cumberland
£4,500
By SAXTON, Christopher, 1579].
![SAXTON, Christopher [Somerset] Somersetensem Comitat](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/24373_1H.jpg?fit=6702%2C5282&ssl=1)
Out of stock
The first printed map of Somerset
£6,000
By SAXTON, Christopher, 1579].
![SAXTON, Christopher [Shropshire] Salopiae comitatus.](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/24372_1H.jpg?fit=6719%2C5297&ssl=1)
Out of stock
The first printed map of Shropshire
£1,800
By SAXTON, Christopher, 1579].
