Noorthouck’s Tower Ward Plan
Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 19 x 25 cm, recent hand-colour, blank verso; a plan of Tower Ward published in Noorthouck’s History of ...
View full detailsCondition & Materials Copper engraving, 19 x 25 cm, recent hand-colour, blank verso; a plan of Tower Ward published in Noorthouck’s History of ...
View full detailsLimestreet Ward divided into Parishes according to a late Survey Possibly engraved by Thomas Bowen and first published in the London Magazine, this...
View full detailsTry 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...
View full detailsFor 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...
View full detailsDo 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 ...
View full detailsThey’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...
View full detailsO 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...
View full detailsPilchards are either sardines, herring, or neither. I think it depends where you (and they) are from. This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial At...
View full detailsWaiter, 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...
View full detailsMeunière 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...
View full detailsSee 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...
View full detailsThis map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series of 50 lavishly chromolithographed chart...
View full detailsThe Piscatorial Atlas was the product of a decade or more of reports and correspondence with British fishermen This map was published in the ‘Pisca...
View full detailsThe 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 ...
View full detailsWhy 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...
View full detailsThis map of Asia Minor or Anatolia is from the second series of maps engraved by Philip Galle for the Epitome, the pocket atlas version of Ortelius...
View full detailsThis map of Sicily is from the second series of maps engraved by Philip Galle for the Epitome, the pocket atlas version of Ortelius’ Theatrum. Cond...
View full detailsTwo English printers dipped a toe in the vernacular atlas market at approximately the same time with pocket editions of the Ortelius atlas: ‘These ...
View full detailsTypus Regni Neapolitani This map of the Kingdom of Naples is from the second series of maps engraved by Philip Galle for the Epitome, the pocket at...
View full detailsThis map of Middlesex was published in Geographia Magnae Britanniae, or, Correct Maps of all the Counties in England, Scotland and Wales. It was pr...
View full detailsAsia veteribus nota. L’Asie ancienne, dirigée par M. Philippe This is a map of Asia as it was understood in the Greco-Roman world in classical anti...
View full detailsThis map of Persia, Afghanistan and Balochistan is part of the Authentic Imperial Maps series published by the London Geographical Institute. Condi...
View full detailsThis finely engraved map of Middlesex, with a vignette view of St.Pauls Cathedral, was printed from a steel plate and apparently among the first co...
View full detailsPlan of the Battle of Malplaquet gained by the Allies Sep. 11 1709 Marlborough’s bloodiest victory was often regarded as pyrrhic even by contempora...
View full detailsThis plan of the Manchester Shipping Canal was published as a supplement to ‘The Illustrated London News’, February 3rd 1883. Construction began in...
View full detailsThe Seven United Provinces This map of the Netherlands was prepared for Playfair’s New General Atlas. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, ...
View full detailsA Plan of the Town and Citadel of Plymouth in the County of Devon This map of Plymouth was published in the London Magazine and incorporates Smeat...
View full detailsNegroponte (Euboea) This map of Negropoonte was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and hist...
View full detailsScarpanto (Karpathos) This map of Karpathos was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and hist...
View full detailsCerigo (Kythera) This map of Kythera was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated...
View full detailsMetellino (Mytilene, Lesbos) This map of Mitilini was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece an...
View full detailsMilo (Milos) This map of Milos was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated initi...
View full detailsNicsia (Naxos) This map of Naxos was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated ini...
View full detailsIl Sito de Curzolari (and Gulf of Lepanto) This map of the gulf of Lepanto was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text wi...
View full detailsThe Railway Clearing House allocated revenue on occasions where one company’s train ran over another’s track, and promoted standardisation (of ever...
View full detailsPlan of Cardona, a strong City and Castle of Catalonia, upon the River Cardoner as besieged by the French and defended by the Allies This plan of t...
View full detailsThis map of Middlesex was published in Reuben Ramble's ‘Travels through the Counties of England’, an uncommon county atlas for children. Reuben Ram...
View full detailsPartie Septentrionale de la Couronne de Castille où se trouvent les Royaumes de Castille Vieille, de Leon, de Gallice, des Asturies, la Biscaye et ...
View full detailsEnvirons 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...
View full detailsCarte 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 ...
View full detailsThis map of Middlesex was first published in 1746 to accompany Thomas Read’s English Traveller. The the plates were acquired by John Rocque and re-...
View full detailsRogers' poem was printed in both quarto and octavo formats in 1819, the year of its first publication. Eclipsed by some of his great contemporaries...
View full detailsTabula Aphricae II Ruscelli’s map of North Africa, following Gastaldi, was first issued in his edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia printed by Valgrisi ...
View full detailsTabula Europae III This map of Ptolemaic Gaul, with galleon and sea monster added to the plate by Giuseppe Rosaccio, is from the fourth edition of ...
View full detailsThis map of Ptolemaic Germany and Denmark is from the fourth edition of Ruscelli’s Italian translation of the Geographia. It is illustrated with de...
View full detailsSarmatia utraque Europaea et Asiatica This map shows parts of European Russia and Ukraine in antiquity. For Greco-Roman geographers and ethnographe...
View full detailsThis map of Cardiganshire was published in the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translation of Camden’s Britannia into English, the third print...
View full detailsThis map of County Durham was engraved by Kip after Saxton. It is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translation of Camden’s Britannia i...
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