Leopold’s View of London
This is a view showing London before the Great Fire, from the South Bank of the Thames, including London Bridge and old St Paul’s. Principal buildi...
View full detailsThis is a view showing London before the Great Fire, from the South Bank of the Thames, including London Bridge and old St Paul’s. Principal buildi...
View full detailsBenjamin Getzel Lewis' map of the London underground shows the Victoria Line under construction in the originally proposed colour Lewis (1900-1966)...
View full detailsClang, clang, clang went the trolley… Trolleybus services were introduced to London in 1931 and phased out between 1954 and 1962, making this one o...
View full detailsLongus: [Greek title: Longou Poimenikon, ton kata Daphnin kai Chloen, biblia tettara] Daphnide et Chloe, Libri Quatuor. Petrus Moll Snecanus J. V. ...
View full detailsThis significant and original regional map of Padua is from Magini's great work, the first detailed national atlas of Italy, published posthumously...
View full detailsThis distinctive map of California as an island is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with Germ...
View full detailsPlan du Siege de Namur avec les nouveaux travaux que sa Majesté y a fait adjouter qui sont marquees à la lettre A. Cette place fut reduitte à l’obb...
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 detailsMorea olim Peloponnesus Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 34 x 41.5 cm, original hand colour, trivial spotting, French text on verso. Re...
View full detailsThis plan of Genoa was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum E...
View full detailsMap with lines showing the boundary for free collection and delivery of parcels and passengers’ luggage The main map shows central London, includin...
View full detailsFirst edition of Wilkie Collins’ No Name. One of Bryars & Bryars' favourite novels, and in our opinion better than his more well-known works Co...
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 detailsThis map of Algeria features an inset of the Bay of Algiers. Ottoman Algeria was a hub of privateering and the Mediterranean slave trade. Well know...
View full detailsHollandiae Comitatus una cum Ultrajectino Dominio nec non maximis partibus Geldriae Ducatus, per C. Specht This example of Caspar Specht’s map has ...
View full detailsPublished in March 1935, this is a commercially available map showing the operating area of the recently formed London Passenger Transport Board, a...
View full detailsDistrict within ¼ mile radius [of] Manor House Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, w...
View full detailsDistrict within ¼ mile radius [of] South Harrow Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, ...
View full detailsDistrict within ¼ mile radius [of] Uxbridge Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, with...
View full detailsLondon: Day & Son for FG Moon, 1842-45. Tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe after Roberts, 51 x 33.5 cm, light marginal waterstaining. From the f...
View full detailsA correct sketch of the northern seat of war, exhibiting the whole of the country, wherein the British troops under the command of His Royal Highne...
View full detailsL’Empire de la Chine dressé d’apres les Cartes de l’Atlas Chinois This detailed and relatively accurate map of China, Korea and Taiwan was derived ...
View full detailsPresqu’Isle des Indes Orientales, comprenant l’Indostan ou Empire du Mogol, differens Royaumes ou Etats, les vastes possessions des Anglais, et les...
View full detailsEnvirons of Wembley from Rocque’s ‘An Exact Survey of the City’s of London, Westminster, ye Borough of Southwark and the Country Near Ten Miles Rou...
View full details[Map of] Afghanistan, political, phisical [sic], roads and distances, important historical sites According to the online resource Encyclopaedia Ira...
View full detailsSyriae sive Soriae, nova et accurata descriptio Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age,...
View full detailsSinus Gangeticus; vulgo Golfo de Bengale nova descriptio This is a map of the Bay of Bengal with north oriented to the right. Petrus Schenk and Ger...
View full detailsHobson-Jobson: being a glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases, and of kindred terms; etymological, historical, geographical and disc...
View full detailsMare Clausum seu de Dominio Maris libri duo. Quorum argumentum Paginâ versâ. Iuxta exemplar Londinense [London] Will. Stansbeii pro Richardo Meighe...
View full detailsLondon: Day & Son for FG Moon, 1842-45. Tinted lithograph by Louis Haghe after Roberts, 35.5 x 51 cm, minor spotting. From the first edition o...
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 detailsChart of the World on Mercator’s Projection, shewing the principal Ocean Steam Routes, the Submarine Telegraph &c This world map was published ...
View full detailsThe framing device used by this children’s atlas is a little dark: Filip and his sister Cora are orphans, living with their aunt and uncle and cous...
View full detailsThe map of the Eastern Hemisphere tracks the overland route to India (subject of a separate map in the series) and on to Australia. John Tallis the...
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 detailsThis pictorial map of London is generally dated 1931 in institutional catalogues, but here Geographia’s date-code for November 1934 is worked into ...
View full detailsOur example of the map has been annotated in ink to show the early expansion of the railway system, with railways completed and under construction....
View full detailsThe earliest versions of this map advertised the Franco-British Exhibition which closed at the end of October 1908, marked here as ‘Exhibition’. In...
View full detailsThis iteration of the UERL common design marks George Philip & Son’s first official map for the Underground Group; the firm had designed the fi...
View full detailsBulgaria et Romania: divisa in singulares sangiacatus Silistriam, Nicopolin, Bodinum, Sardiam, Bysantium, Kirkeliam et Gallipolin, una cum finitimi...
View full detailsAfteekening van de Rivier van London of River Thames [on sheet with] Afteekening van de Iarmouthse Banken geleegen voor Iarmouth Aan de Oost Kust v...
View full detailsThis map of the continent of Asia was prepared for the Homann firm by Johann Matthias Hase, professor of mathematics in Wittemberg, on his stereogr...
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