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Daniel Crouch Rare Books is to sell a spectacular 16th century world map by Genoese cartographer Vesconte Maggiolo at the TEFAF art and antique fair in New York.

At first glance they look like entirely different cities – one its skyline dominated by church spires and palaces, the other a modern tangle of skyscapers and tower blocks.

In 1531, Italian sailor and cartographer Vesconte Maggiolo created a “Portolan planisphere,” a navigational chart of the known world, that included the first depiction of the eastern seaboard and therefore of New York harbor. Bloomberg tells us that the 6.7′ x 3′ map made of six goat skins is now in the possession of rare book and map dealer Daniel Crouch, who will put it up for sale for a whopping $10 million this Saturday at TEFAF art fair. If it fetches this price, it’ll become the most expensive map ever publicly sold.

Just when you thought the global art calendar—between auctions, art fairs and biennials—couldn’t get any busier, TEFAF (the European Fine Art Fair), is almost here. The premier event, which opens for VIPs on Friday, October 21, is happening for the first time in New York.

The oldest map of North America—including New York—is slated to go on sale at TEFAF, an Amsterdam-based arts fair, for a cool $10 million. Of course, the vintage map is basically completely inaccurate, but it’s still cool, right?

Now this is definitely one of those once in a lifetime sort of moments when a 500-year-old (!!!) map appears on the market, and what’s more it’s the first map ever to depict the New York Harbor. Come Saturday, it will be on sale at the Park Avenue Armory for an equally jaw-dropping number: $10 million, Bloomberg reports.

Upper East Side rare book dealer Daniel Crouch is preparing to auction the most expensive map ever to hit the market. And it’s a pretty incredible piece of NYC history.

On a Tuesday in mid-October, the most expensive map ever to hit the market was sitting on the floor of an empty office on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Daniel Crouch, the rare book and map dealer to whom it had been consigned, stood over it, beaming.

NEW YORK, NY.- Daniel Crouch Rare Books will exhibit the most expensive map ever offered on the open market at TEFAF New York (21-26 October 2016).

The almost 500-year-old wonder goes for sale at TEFAF later this month.

BADA members and world renowned specialists in maps, atlases and rare books, Daniel Crouch Rare Books are expanding their operations to the United States with the opening of a new gallery in New York.

As the inaugural TEFAF New York this autumn brings an art world establishment to America for the first time, Daniel Crouch Rare Books will bring items relating to the discovery of America and the New World.