Blaeu’s Map of Devon
Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles in the 1630s and e...
View full detailsBlaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles in the 1630s and e...
View full detailsAquisgranum A plan of Aachen, or Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most significant cartographic works of the l...
View full detailsThis plan of Gouda in the Netherlands is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-ce...
View full detailsRegionis, quae est circa Londinum […] This map follows Thomas Bowles’ ‘A New and Correct Map of Thirty Miles round London’ published c. 1740. The f...
View full detailsCestria Comitatus Palatinatus. The Countye Palatine of Chester Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus...
View full detailsComitatus Dorcestria vulgo Anglice Dorsetshire Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked...
View full detailsLincolnia Comitatus Anglis Lyncolneshire Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a ...
View full detailsThese maps of Staffordshire and Shropshire are presented on one sheet. Unlike Kip and Hole, Speed and Blaeu – who all devoted an entire map-sheet t...
View full detailsSuthsexia, vernacule Sussex Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50.5 cm, modern hand-colour, closed centrefold split with some margi...
View full detailsThis map of the northern part of Scotland is from the Hondius-Janssonius map publishing business, which traced its roots back to Gerardus Mercator....
View full detailsThis map of Ancient Gaul was engraved on the basis of Caesar’s commentaries on the Gallic Wars, his first hand account of the campaign. The text on...
View full detailsHispaniae veteris typus Our example of this map of Ancient Spain was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, in the final edition of t...
View full detailsTransilvania Copper engraving, 33 x 45 cm, modern hand-colour, Latin text on verso. This is the second version of Ortelius’ map of Transylvania, n...
View full detailsSchlavoniae, Croatiae, Carniae, Istriae, Bosniae, Finitimarumque Regionum Nova Descriptio Ortelius’ map of the western Balkans drew on the cartogra...
View full detailsVan den Broecke stresses the significance of this map of Gaul: “in contrast to plate Ort 194 [Gallia vetus, based on Caesar’s commentaries], this m...
View full detailsDaciarum, Moesiarumque, vetus descriptio This map of Ancient Dacia and Moesia, modern Romania and Bulgaria on the Black Sea was published by Baltha...
View full detailsRomaniae, (quae olim Thracia dicta) Vicinarumque Regionum, uti Bulgariae, Walachiae, Syrfiae, etc. Descriptio This map shows the Lower Danube regio...
View full detailsThe Countie of Westmorland and Kendale the cheif towne described John Speed (1552-1629) is unquestionably the most significant English map-maker of...
View full detailsA Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, exhibiting the seat of war both in Europe and America according to the latest discoveries and regulated by Astronomi...
View full detailsCassell's 'immense map' of London was prepared for the Weekly Dispatch and published in nine parts between January 1861 and April 1862. This exampl...
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