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Catalogue XLVI: A Moveable Feast: The Temperley Collection of paper engineered pop-ups, transformations, and other surprises – Vol 1 & 2

£100

Rosie and David Temperley believe that “communication, cooperation, and creativity” are the three key tenets for social cohesion, and life.

The Temperley Collection, their vast accumulation of books and ephemera, acquired over more than sixty years, is a blinding reflection of this bright ideal, illuminated via the ingenuity of a myriad of papery arts. The result is a cornucopia of marvels and delights that (literally) spring, bounce, twist, turn, fold, flap and flip – off, on and through the pages of thousands of books, cards, prints, and toys.

Over the course of the 500 years that the Temperley Collection spans, some of the most enlightened minds have used these methods to communicate the scientific and religious mysteries of our heavens and earth. Above all, the Temperley Collection practices what it preaches: it is a library that refuses to stay put on the shelves; it is an experience which demands immersion and participation.

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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.

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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.

Catalogue XLIII: The Art of the Chart – Vol 1 – 3

£200

It is with great pleasure that Altea Gallery and Daniel Crouch Rare Books bring you this joint catalogue of the manuscript and printed archive of the world-renowned maritime chart publisher Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd.

The collection is a unique portrait of the Enlightenment world at the turn of the eighteenth century.

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Catalogue XLII: The Winner Takes it All

£50

Daniel Crouch Rare Books is proud to present a collection of playingcards and related items that are a store of artistic, political, industrial and cultural history spanning seven centuries and five continents. These palmsized pieces of paper have the power to enrich, educate, advertise or entertain.

The artistic and technical innovations of the generations of card-makers represented here have ensured that, even if you get dealt a bad hand, you are still holding good cards.

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Catalogue XLI: The Name of the Game

Whether alone or in teams, for pleasure or profit, sporting or seated, games have been an ever-present feature of every civilization. During the eighteenth century, not only were industrial advances making large-scale printing easier, but they were also generating something that had never before been available to the majority of society: leisure time. Paired with growing literacy rates across society and greater understanding of the importance of childhood education, this gave birth to a wave of new and unique games, especially in the form of jigsaw puzzles, playing cards, and board games.

Catalogue XL: The Asala Collection

£100

If journalism is, as they say, the first draft of history, then perhaps photography is the raw material of memory; in the sense not just of personal mementoes (though that’s often the way photographs start out), but also of shared recollection. And that sort of collective remembering is, in turn, the stuff of history’s sister, culture, and of identity.

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Catalogue XXXIX: “I wisely started with a map…” A celebration of fictional cartography

£50

Maps are scientific instruments. They offer proof of truth. They portray measured relationships between objects and ideas. To achieve this, however, maps must reduce, omit, and distort a three-dimensional world onto a flat piece of paper. This is the paradox of cartography: to tell the truth, a map must lie.

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Catalogue XXXVIII: Terra Australis Cognita: The Robert Clancy Collection

£50

In antiquity, the earliest geographers and cartographers hypothesised a southern landmass to balance out the northern hemisphere, and when, in the second century, Ptolemy asserted that the Indian Ocean was bounded by land to the south, the legend of a terra australis incognita was born.

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Catalogue XXXVII: Tall is her Body: The Dominica Collection of David Nabarro

£20

The Commonwealth of Dominica. The Nature Island. Wai’tu kubuli, which, in the language of the indigenous Kalinago Indians, translates as ‘Tall is her body’. This collection, assembled over two generations, portrays Dominica through one hundred maps, prints, books, manuscripts, and ephemera.

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Catalogue XXXVI: Mapping the Holy Land: The Adrian Naftalin Collection

£100

Three thousand years of history, geography, religion, and politics in one thousand maps, plans, and books. There exists a deep-rooted affinity between the history of cartography and the history of the Holy Land. The region served as the subject of the very first survey recorded in writing (Joshua 18:4) and continued to play a prominent role in cartography throughout the following millennia. Please note that shipping is not included. Costs are: £25 to the UK, £35 to Europe, and £45 to the rest of the world.

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Catalogue XXXV: Audubon’s Birds of America

£15

“There is nothing in the world of fine books quite like the first discovery of Audubon. The giant energy of the man, and his power of achievement and accomplishment, give to him something of the epical force of a Walt Whitman or a Herman Melville. … Audubon is the greatest of bird painters; he belongs to American history, and as a writer he described things that human eyes will never see again” (Sitwell)

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