LONDON.- London-based rare books and maps specialists Daniel Crouch Rare Books will make their first appearance at Frieze Masters from 15-19th October 2014. They are the first rare books and maps dealer to exhibit at the prestigious fair, now in its 3rd year.

For their first Frieze Masters they will bring a ‘frieze to Frieze’ (pictured left). This work, entitled ‘A free-standing atlas of Europe’, by George Willdey and Thomas Jefferys is a four-fold screen, with twenty-one hand-coloured copper-engraved maps and was made in London. C. 1750. It is particularly exciting as it is exceptionally rare to find atlases in this form. There is only one other example of this particular screen map and it lives at the British Library, so it is all the more exciting that its ‘twin’ is now coming to the market.

They will also bring John Rocque’s eponymous 24-sheet ‘Map of Georgian London’. Rocque was a French Hugenot émigré who arrived in London in 1730 and by 1737 he applied his surveying skills to the great task of surveying the entire built-up area of London. Begun in the March of 1737, upon a scale of 26 inches to 1 statute mile, the map would take nine years to produce, eventually being engraved upon 24 sheets of copper and published in 1746. The plan stretches west to east from Hyde Park to Limehouse and north to south from New River Head to Walworth. Daniel Crouch Rare Books will offer this at Frieze Masters for £40, 000.

He will also bring rare sea charts from the Dutch Golden Age including Hendrik Doncker’s ‘Pascaerte van Oost Indien…’ from 1664 (£320,000), Willem Janz Blaeu’s ‘West Indische Paskaert… Gedruckt t’Amsterdam Bij Jacobus Robyn, inde Nieuwe Brugh steeg inde Stuurman’ from c.1630/1674 together with Pieter and Johannes Blaeus’ ‘Pascaarte van alle de Zee-custen van Europa’ from 1677 (£600,000). He will also bring a map of the 13 colonies by Henry Popple entitled ‘A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto’ from 1733 (£125,000) and Christopher Saxton’s iconic Elizabethan map of England and Wales, ‘The Travellers Guide being the best Mapp of the Kingdom of England and Principality of Wales’ c.1583, £75,000.