Ortelius' 1584 Map of the British Isles
This map of the British Isles is aligned with west at the top of the map and north on the right, which makes better use of the available space on t...
View full detailsThis map of the British Isles is aligned with west at the top of the map and north on the right, which makes better use of the available space on t...
View full detailsThe cartouche on this map of the British isles is surmounted by the old Stuart coat of arms and the borders are made up of sixteen regional armoria...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 detailsHistorical pastime, or, a new game of the history of England from the Conquest to the accession of George the Third This popular early nineteenth-c...
View full detailsMap of the Great Western Railway and Connections This map illustrates how the Great Western Railway connected resources such as coal fields, china ...
View full detailsBradshaw’s map of the railways of England & Wales with part of Scotland, reduced from the highly accurate Ordnance Survey, presented to the sub...
View full detailsBradshaw’s Railway Manual, Shareholder’s Guide and Official Directory, 1914; containing the History and Financial Position of every Railway Company...
View full detailsBradshaw’s Railway Manual, Shareholder’s Guide and Official Directory for 1868. Containing the History and Financial Position of Every Company, Bri...
View full detailsJacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first chief hydrographic engineer of the "Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministère de la M...
View full detailsMagnae Britaniae et Hiberniae Tabula First published in 1631, this map of the British Isles became the Blaeu firm’s principal one for twenty years....
View full detailsGeneral-Karte von Grossbritannie Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 25.5 x 30 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso.
This map of the British Isles and northwestern Europe charts George Edwards's travels between 1716 and 1730 and features male and female stag beetl...
View full detailsBritannia Magna This miniature map of the British Isles oriented with East at the top was published in James Beeverell’s ‘Les Delices de la Grand B...
View full detailsGros Britanni[en] oder Engelland Schottland und Irrland The cartouche of this map is dominated by the Hanoverian coat of arms, and the legend on th...
View full detailsThis map of the British Isles with west at the top was published in the French text edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geogr...
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