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Celebrating their sixth consecutive year exhibiting at the fair, Daniel Crouch Rare Books, leading maps and rare books dealer, will return to TEFAF Maastricht with an impressive selection of works including a monumental wall map of astonishing beauty, made in 1604 at the beginning of the Dutch Golden Age by Luis Texeira. Dutch world wall maps from this era are incredibly rare and this engraved map, printed on twelve sheets, is the only surviving complete example.

The British Library in London is a quarter of the way through a major project to re-catalogue, digitise and conserve a 50,000-strong map collection assembled by Britain’s famous collector-king, George III (1738-1820). Among the objects to be digitally photographed is the world’s second largest atlas, which measures a huge 1.8m by 2.3m. The Klencke Atlas, named after the Dutch sugar merchant Johannes Klencke, who presented it to Charles II in 1660, contains 41 large-scale maps made in the 1620s and 1630s, a period known as the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. The maps were intended to hang on the wall, but were bound into one giant book.

The atlas and antique map expert funds the British Library’s digitisation of 50,000 items in the King’s Topographical Collection

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It was hanging there with majesty, an imposing size, a jaw-dropping blue: our favorite blue piece at the Frieze Art Show 2015 was a gigantic blue map presented by Daniel Crouch Rare Books, a specialist dealer in antique atlases, maps, plans, sea charts and voyages dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries.

As the good, the bad and the ugly of the art world descend on London for a plethora of fairs, auctions, exhibitions and of course cocktail parties, AnOther is here to guide you through Frieze’s grown-up counterpart, Frieze Masters, with a curation of excellent artworks that truly exemplify what the fair is all about.

In this week’s episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, Daniel Crouch, founder of Daniel Crouch Rare Books, joins us to talk about the rare books and maps market.

A new book of maps explores the way humans interpret the world, writes Paul Best.

Daniel on Will Gompertz BBCRadio Oxford show, talking about ‘the map that changed the world’.

Embelished with 38 inset maps and views of the Mediterranean’s major ports, this early edition of a circa-1694 maritime chart by Romeyn De Hooghe almost guarantees conversation. Who hasn’t been at least somewhere recognizable on one or more of its three hand-coloured, engraved sheets, joined for a total width of 57 inches and a height of 24 inches? Its dealer, Daniel Crouch, can show this treasure at his homeport of London,or June 6 to 7 at the London Map Fair, Europe’s largest antique map market.

Quedan menos de dos semanas para que comience TEFAF MAASTRICHT 2015, que este año tendrá lugar del 13 al 22 de marzo. Esta gran feria del arte y las antigüedades, la más importante del mundo, contará con la presencia de más de 270 galerías procedentes de una veintena de países. Cinco de ellas son españolas: Deborah Elvira, Artur Ramon Art, Galería Caylus, Galería López de Aragón y Coll&Cortés Ltd. Una sexta, Elba Benítez, asistirá como invitada a la nueva sección Night Fishing, comisariada por Sydney Picasso y dedicada a la escultura postmoderna.

Even after 40 years, TEFAF never fails to delight, with enticing works of art of every material, creed and age of antiquity.