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.
A specialist house devoted to the age of exploration — its maps, its books, and the extraordinary stories of the people who charted the world.
Frederik Muller Rare Books is a specialist dealer in fine antiquarian books, maps and atlases of the Age of Discovery, and in the books of science that made those discoveries possible: navigation, astronomy, cosmography, mathematics and natural history. We work by appointment, sourcing, researching and bringing exceptional works to market. We advise collectors, museums and institutions, and present curated works through private viewings.
We specialise in the voyages of discovery that laid the foundation of Dutch and Western European prosperity, from the late fifteenth century into the eighteenth. From the great Spanish, Portuguese and English expeditions, through the pivotal knowledge made available by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, the key to the East and the birth of the VOC, to the voyages of Barentsz, Van Noort and De Houtman. The travel accounts, maps, atlases, globes, letters and instruments created in their wake form the focus of our collection, together with the books of science that made those voyages possible: navigation, astronomy, cosmography, mathematics and natural history.
Amsterdam, by appointment: a working library where books and maps are studied, described and shown in person.
