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About Us

Owning a piece of history

A specialist house devoted to the age of exploration — its maps, its books, and the extraordinary stories of the people who charted the world.

World map by Abraham Ortelius, Antwerp 1641
Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum: the world map from the Theatro d'el Orbe de la Tierra, Antwerp 1641, the last edition of the first modern atlas. View this work →

Who we are

Our focus

Our office

Amsterdam, by appointment: a working library where books and maps are studied, described and shown in person.

The library and the working table
The library and the working table
Reference works and stock
Reference works and stock
The map room
The map room
Framed maps and the bar
Framed maps and the bar

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