The First Atlas of the Far East published in Europe
This, the sixth volume of Blaeu’s great ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’or ‘Novus Atlas’ is also the first atlas of China published in Europe. More proper...
View full detailsThis, the sixth volume of Blaeu’s great ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’or ‘Novus Atlas’ is also the first atlas of China published in Europe. More proper...
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 detailsBritannia sits in the central panel of this cartographic board game, contemplating possibilities for commerce and the arts opened up by the new rai...
View full detailsSheets K1/K2: Cyrenacia and Crete (no coverage of Cyprus) This map is concealed in a sleeve inside a British khaki drill tropical uniform belt, of ...
View full detailsThe Central London Railway pioneered giving maps like this one to passengers free of charge, something which we now take for granted but which only...
View full detailsHuntington, both shire and shire towne with the ancient citie Ely described This is an unusual example of John Speed’s map of Huntingdonshire – it ...
View full detailsOlissippo quae nunc Lisboa, civitas amplissima Lusitaniae, ad Tagum, totius Orientis, et multarum Insularum Aphricaeque et Mericae emporium nobilis...
View full detailsSheets 44E/44F: North Sumatra and part of Siam/Part of Siam, Malaya and East Sumatra For the highly classified production of Escape & Evasion m...
View full detailsCloth Survival Chart S-12: Western Pacific Covering the Western Pacific, this is the largest of the US Navy ‘handkerchief’ charts. One side shows ...
View full detailsThis is the index map and key to the Ordnance Survey sheets covering the entire county Tyrone on a scale of six inches to the mile. Condition &...
View full detailsThis is the index map and key to the Ordnance Survey sheets covering the entire county Armagh on a scale of six inches to the mile Condition & ...
View full detailsThis map of the London underground was published shortly before changes were made to the colour coding of the Central and Bakerloo Lines. Beck’s 19...
View full detailsThis issue of Beck’s 1934 map saw a slight increase in size of the card folder given away to passengers. Beck’s diagram is one of the most innovat...
View full detailsOur map of the London underground is the second edition in a series designed by Fred Stingemore, issued free to passengers from May 1925 onwards an...
View full detailsMap of India and Birmah This map of India and Burma features an inset location map with British possessions coloured red, next to a distance table...
View full detailsMap of India, constructed with great care and research from all the Latest Authorities and intended more particularly to facilitate a reference to ...
View full detailsMap of China, Japan and Korea. / [Cover title:] The Eastern Crisis. Bacon's large-scale map of Japan, Korea, China, Manchuria Produced to illustrat...
View full detailsChine du nord - Corée - Manchoukouo Manchukuo – a Japanese term for Manchuria – was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in China and Inner Mongol...
View full detailsThis is a separately issued example of a map of Ireland which also appeared in Arrowsmith’s major work, his influential ‘London Atlas of Universal ...
View full detailsPortus Pulchri in Isthmo Panamensi [with] Scenographia Portus Pulchri This is a plan and view of the successful British attack on the wealthy and s...
View full detailsThis map of Tehran features a legend in the borders listing 218 places of interest in the pre-Revolutionary city. The mapmaker’s own premises are i...
View full detailsSouvenir Map of the Coronation procession May 12th, 1937. This decorated Map is drawn to mark the Royal Procession of Their Majesties Coronation......
View full detailsPaul Bunyan's pictorial map of the United States depicting some of his deeds and exploits Stories about Paul Bunyan, the lumberjack of gigantic pr...
View full detailsThis map of the environs of Edinburgh was published a decade before Ainslie’s landmark nine sheet map of Scotland. Originally published in 1778, th...
View full detailsAfter a lonely and hazardous journey (especially after he quarrelled and parted company with Major Stephen Long’s expedition) Beltrami (1779-1855) ...
View full detailsThis Edwardian map of the London underground represents a significant advance both in the issuing of passenger maps in a convenient format, and in ...
View full detailsRobert Morden's county maps, like this one of Cornwall, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an ...
View full detailsRobert Morden's country maps, like this one of Suffolk, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an ...
View full detailsRobert Morden's county maps, like this one of Surrey, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an El...
View full detailsRobert Morden's county maps, like this one of Lancashire (the county palatine of Lancaster), were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of Willi...
View full detailsPlan du Port et de la Ville de Nangasaki This is a plan of the port city of Nagaski, one of Japan’s chief points of contact with the outside world ...
View full detailsCarte de Isles du Japont et la presqu' Isle de Coree avec les costes de la Chine depuis Pekin jusqua Canton . . . Bellin compiled maps like this on...
View full detailsL’Empire du Chine pour servir a l’Histoire Universelle, d’une Societe de Gens de Lettres Our example of Bellin’s map of China, with text in French ...
View full detailsThousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. The decorative cartouche on this map of the roa...
View full detailsThousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet shows the roads between the Cumbrian...
View full detailsThousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet covers the road between High Barnet ...
View full detailsThousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet covers the road between Bagshot in S...
View full detailsA View of the Town and Castle of St. Augustine, and the English Camp before it June 20, 1740. by Thos. Silver This is a contemporary plan of the ab...
View full detailsThis map of New York City features inset views of Broadway and City Hall. It includes detail of the railroads, ferries and principal public buildin...
View full detailsThe “District Railway” Miniature Map of London and Environs (6th edition) District Railway routes are overprinted in red on this road and rail map ...
View full detailsMap of the River Thames, shewing locks, bridges, adjacent roads & railways, drawn expressly for the Rowing Almanack & Oarsman’s Companion T...
View full detailsChorographia Terrae Sanctae in angustiorem formam redacta, et ex variis auctoribus a multibus erroribus expurgata This map of the Holy Land, after ...
View full detailsThis pictorial route map of the Devon General by an anonymous draughtsman for the principal bus operator in south Devon makes playful references to...
View full detailsThis Vietnam War-era city plan of Saigon (modern Ho Chi Minh City) is coloured by district, with a street index at the foot of the map. Useful info...
View full detailsMoluccae Insulae This map shows the Maluku Islands (or Moluccas), part of the volcanic Indonesian archipelago known to contemporary Europeans as th...
View full detailsAlso published in Stanford’s London Atlas, our example of this map of Africa was separately issued and illustrates the speed and scale of the Scram...
View full detailsThe Daily Mail Special Map Of The Far East Produced to illustrate the Russo-Japanese War, this map indicates Treaty Ports, dockyards and naval base...
View full detailsPlan Routiere de la Ville et Fauxbourgs de Paris divisé en douze Maries, revu et corrigé par Hérisson, géographe Our map shows the Paris of Charles...
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