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Daniel Crouch Rare Books presents exhibition as part of the programme for Totallly Thames.

London-based dealer Daniel Crouch Rare Books hosts a pop-up selling exhibition at the OXO Gallery as part of the programme for the Totally Thames festival.

As part of Totally Thames, Daniel Crouch Rare Books brings a selling exhibition of London maps to the Oxo Tower – and the show includes some stunning rarities. You’ll be able to see the first printed map of London, published by Braun and Hogenberg in 1574, as well as an example from the time of Oliver Cromwell, on which you can see ferrymen and barges setting about their work, and several large-scale Georgian examples by John Rocque. To bring things up to date, there’s Stephen Walter’s incredibly detailed contemporary map, investigating subterranean London with its sewers, lost rivers and transport tunnels, which was commissioned by the London Transport Museum for the Underground’s 150th anniversary.

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It may only be his fourth exhibiting at TEFAF, but London dealer Daniel Crouch Rare Books made a key sale over the first weekend of the fair: a pair of 17th century globes by Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571-1638), with an asking price of £1.2m.

Maps from centuries past served a dual purpose. They had a practical use as guides for explorers and navigators. But maps also highlighted places unknown to populations curious about what lay beyond their shores. Daniel Crouch specialises in antique maps, atlases and sea charts. He founded his company Daniel Crouch Rare Books in 2011 and has a collection of some of the world’s oldest and rarest maps. Crouch says: “People have a fascination in exploration and discovery. Maps are not only beautiful works of art but scientifically fascinating and historically interesting.”

Antique maps provide a fascinating insight into how the planet was once perceived and have great investment potential, too, as the experts from this rarefied world can verify.

We may not use them to chart new lands or avoid threatening sea monsters these days, but we’re unknowingly exposed to an increasing number of maps. We constantly note our location on our phones, in our cars and via social media. At the same time, we are also deluged with map-based infographics that chart everything from global obesity to broadband coverage.

(CNN) – Maps can be beautiful and good ones can be great investments.

When looking through old books, it is a good idea to pay attention and know something of cartography. In the case of Daniel Crouch, a book dealer in England, he was both attentive and knowledgeable when he found a handful of rare maps of Texas drawn by scientist Jean Louis Berlandier in the early 1800s. The maps depict the Texas Gulf Coast, specifically Brazos Santiago, a town destroyed by hurricanes in the area near Galveston Bay. This was well before any urban development and about five years before the Allen Brothers hoodwinked a bunch of people into settling in Houston.

Mapping Empire and Exploration in America, London Dealer Daniel Crouch Rare Books brings rare American maps to the International Art and Antique Dealer’s Fair, New York.

This year at the International fair, Daniel will exhibit four ink and watercolour wash manuscript maps of the site of Houston before its foundation, dated 1829-30, printed by Jean Louis Berlandiers, an anthropologist, geographer, historian, meteorologist and naturalist. Each map shows a separate section of the Texas coast, from Galveston Bay to the mouth of the Rio Grande, and they are for sale as a group priced at £250,000.