Catalogue
Browse, download, and buy our printed catalogues specialising in rare maps, atlases, globes, and planetaria. You may also browse our occasional digital short lists, and fair catalogues here.
Catalogue XXXIII: Turtle Island
Published: 5 February 2024
£35 +P&P
Our latest catalogue offers a very select group of the earliest, the most important, and fiendishly rare, maps, atlases, and travel accounts, which are the first printed attempts by European commentators and adventurers, to depict their world, and the emerging outline of the Americas.
Catalogue XXXII: From Sea To Shining Sea The Petros G. Pelos Collection
Published: 23 January 2024
Price: £45.00 + P&P
‘From Sea to Shining Sea’, the Petros G. Pelos Collection of exceptionally rare first-hand printed and manuscript travel accounts, atlases, portfolios, and governmental proclamations.
Offered together as a single entity, these 100 items not only reflect the emerging shape of the United States, from the end of the Revolutionary War to the beginning of the Civil War, but were fundamentally instrumental in creating its identity.
Catalogue XXXI: The Mapping of the World
Published: 10 October 2023
Out of stock
A cartographic voyage across time and space.
Catalogue XXX: The William B. Ginsberg Collection
Published: 9 October 2023
Price: £15.00 + P&P
The William B. Ginsberg collection of World Maps; an epitome of the most beautiful, powerful, and influential cartographical images of the 15th and 16th centuries. The earliest printed maps condensed and edited information from three “traditions” of map-making: Christian iconography, classical cartography, and contemporary charts. Ginsberg’s collection encapsulates the subtle metamorphosis of this amalgam of art and science, myth and metaphor, discovery and design, in nineteen maps: from the world map of the ‘Rudimentum novitiorum’ (1475), the earliest printed map, in magnificent original hand-colour; to the largest Italian world map published in the 16th century, Giuseppe Rosaccio’s ‘Universale Descrittione di Tuto il Mondo’ (1657).
Online Catalogue: Made in Great Britain, Made in Heaven, and Made Down Under
Published: 18 May 2023
Out of stock
A selection of atlases, maps and globes Made in Great Britain, Made in Heaven, and Made Down Under.
Online Catalogue: The Name of the Game
Published: 26 April 2023
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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 XXIX: The Art of the Deal
Published: 2 March 2023
Out of stock
Playing cards is, in many ways, a hallmark of civilisation. Like maps and money, a deck of cards is a way of representing an entire value system and an understanding of human nature on paper. A game of cards embodies the inherent unpredictability of life, allowing us to grapple with the uncertainties, directing them towards our own ends. At the card table, when the hands are dealt, all men are temporarily equal; it is how they choose to play those cards that determines who will draw ahead. The players are required to practice both strategic and emotional discipline, and one’s reaction to a bad hand or a sudden windfall can reveal much about his temperament and priorities. As in cards, so in life.
Catalogue XXVIII: Sic itur ad astra
Published: 14 February 2023
Price: £15.00 + P&P
A new catalogue focusing on celestial cartography, a selection of items that show how humans have charted the heavens and marked time by the light of the stars for over 500 years.
Catalogue XXVII: Hollar
Published: 23 May 2022
Out of stock
We are delighted to present our latest catalogue: Hollar – comprising a single-owner collection of works by the master etcher: from maps, topographical views, and architectural drawings, to portraits, records of the latest fashion, and studies of animals.
Online Catalogue: New York, Spring 2022
Published: 4 April 2022
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Online Catalogue: Journey to the East -《东游记》
Published: 18 February 2022
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Our latest catalogue in Chinese: 东游记 – Journey to the East; exploring the attempts of the English, Dutch, and French, to dominate and control the lucrative Spice Trade.
Catalogue XXVI: L is for London
Published: 24 October 2021
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A new catalogue focusing on London, including a selection of Frost Fair prints, large-scale plans of London boroughs, and the first printed depiction of Elizabeth I as queen.
Catalogue XXV: T is for Tradecard
Published: 19 October 2021
Out of stock
Popular from the end of the seventeenth century in London and Paris, trade cards performed the dual functions of advertisements and maps, directing the public to the merchants’ stores – often with rambling descriptions to help locate the business in an era where formal street address numbers were rare. Trade cards were sufficiently small so that they could be carried in the gentleman’s pocket or lady’s purse.