Maps

Ultimately derived from the SDUK but reflecting Haussman’s redevelopment of the city centre under Napoleon III, our example is from one of the last...

This map of Denmark is from Wyld's New General Atlas. James Wyld senior established a highly successful firm of map publishers, which passed to his...

By Green Line from Hyde Park Corner This pair poster was issued in April 1947 for the start of the first summer of the fully re-instated coach netw...

District within ¼ mile radius [of] Turnpike Lane Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War,...

This double hemisphere world map was published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith...

The District Railway Guide to the Greater Britain Exhibition, the Gigantic Wheel, &c, at Earls Court The Greater Britain Exhibition was one of ...

Plan of St Marylebone 1900 Detailed map of the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone as created by the London Government Act 1899, coloured to show...

Carta de’ Contorni di Napoli, costrutta ed eseguita, sui piu recenti ed esatti materiali da Benedetto Marzolla, con tutte le strade postali, rotabi...

A July 1910 map of the Uptown and Downtown Hudson Tubes, pairs of tunnels connecting Jersey City with Greenwich Village in New York and with the Hu...

Map with lines showing the boundary for free collection and delivery of parcels and passengers’ luggage The main map shows central London, includin...

Do you prefer your flatfish with eyes to the right, or to the left? This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and ...

The fish with a face only a mother could love This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a ...

Meunière your skate wings, or get someone else to do it for you This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and Geor...

Why is it proverbially assumed to be very easy to run a whelk stall? They look like hard work to me This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atla...

For a rainy day supper, put crab in your macaroni cheese. Trust me, you’ll love it This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Se...

They’re bonnie fish and halesome farin’ This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series...

Try Scotch Woodock, per The Ritz London Book of Afternoon Tea. For a pared-down version, simply spread hot buttered toast with Gentleman’s Relish a...

Waiter, bring me shad roe... This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series of 50 lavi...

Pilchards are either sardines, herring, or neither. I think it depends where you (and they) are from. This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial At...

The Piscatorial Atlas was the product of a decade or more of reports and correspondence with British fishermen This map was published in the ‘Pisca...

This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series of 50 lavishly chromolithographed chart...

See the east coast Fishwife with her creel This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a ser...

O Oysters, come and walk with us! This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series of 50...

Thibet, Mongolia, and Mandchouria This map was engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’; with vignettes including Leh in Ladakh, a stret...

Voyage en ballon dirigeable a travers l’Europe No rule sheet, but fairly self explanatory: the board is a simplified map of Europe with vignettes o...

L’Italie qui comprend les Etats de Piémont, les Duchés de Milan, de Parme, de Modene, de Mantoue etc., les Républiques de Genes, de Venise, de Luqu...

The critics have not been kind to Harold Hutchison, and nor have we. His design, which replaced Beck’s diagram, was unveiled to the public – and to...

Harold Hutchison believed that he could design a superior version of the Beck diagram himself. He was wrong. With a print code dated January 1960, ...

This plan of Glasgow was published in Bacon’s ‘New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles’. Condition & Materials  Lithographed town p...

This is a late issue of Blaeu’s map of Guiana, with full-body colour typical of the later seventeenth-century. Seventeenth and eighteenth century m...

Town Plan of Wien (Vienna) – Second Edition –- Sheet 5 (Central) The Prater Park with its famous giant wheel is a fraction to the east of the city ...

Les Indes Orientales This is Santini’s edition of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the Indian subcontinent and mainland southeast Asia. Venetian map-mak...

District within ¼ mile radius [of] Monument Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, with...

John Thomson's maps, like this one of the Channel, are characteristic of the Edinburgh school of cartography. It flourished at the beginning of the...

This educational handkerchief (why not?) is in the same format as the series of thirteen 'mouchoirs militaire d'instructions' patented by the comma...

This wartime souvenir handkerchief map of Europe was issued ‘by permission of the Manchester Guardian’, who printed the map over a full broadsheet ...

This map of the continent of Asia was prepared for the Homann firm by Johann Matthias Hase, professor of mathematics in Wittemberg, on his stereogr...

This map of Africa reflects the state of European knowledge of the interior before the mid 19th century search for the sources of the Nile. It mark...

This map of Antwerp, engraved by Benjamin Rees Davies after William Barnard Clarke, includes elevations of principal buildings and a view of the ci...

Spain and Portugal. Reduced from the large map in four sheets James Wyld senior established a highly successful firm of map publishers, which passe...

This map of Stockholm, with a view of of the city on a scroll bottom left, was published by the SDUK. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowl...

Le Royaume de Hongrie, ou se trouvent la Transilvanie, la Moldavie, la Valaquie, la Bosnie la Servie et la Bulgarie, &c Our map of Hungary and ...

Partie Septentrionale du Royaume de Naples This is a later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the northern part of the Kingdom of Naples. The ori...

Partie Septentrionale de la Couronne de Castille où se trouvent les Royaumes de Castille Vieille, de Leon, de Gallice, des Asturies, la Biscaye et ...

Etat de l’Eglise, Grand Duché de Toscane, et Isle de Corse This is a later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the Papal States, Tuscany and Corsi...

Environs de Paris This is a later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s road map of Italy, showing the Venetian Republic, Papal States, Kingdom of Naples e...

La France divisée suivant ses Provinces ou Gouvernemens Militaires This map of France is coloured by departments, with a table listing different fo...

Carte des Royaumes d’Espagne et de Portugal dans laquelle sont tracées les routes de postes This is a later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s road map ...