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Cestria Comitatus Palatinatus. The Countye Palatine of Chester Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus...

The Countie of Westmorland and Kendale the cheif towne described John Speed (1552-1629) is unquestionably the most significant English map-maker of...

Robert Morden's map of Sussex was engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1...

[Title-page] Anglorum Indoles Studia et Actiones In attempting to define the character of the English there is a strong emphasis on trade and disco...

Robert Morden's map of Northumberland was engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprin...

This map of Bedforshire was engraved by Emanuel Bowen for John Owen’s Britannia Depicta, a pocket road book derived from Ogilby’s innovative atlas ...

This map of Huntingdonshire was prepared for Anglia Contracta, Seller's miniature county atlas. Seller's atlases are notoriously difficult to date ...

This map of Berwick-upon-Tweed is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed...

Condition & Materials Steel engraving, 25 x 33 cm, recent hand colour, blank verso; map of Bradford

Blome published the first new series of county maps in the sixty years since the appearance of John Speed’s ‘Theatre’. In the straightened financia...

Blome published the first new series of county maps in the sixty years since the appearance of John Speed’s ‘Theatre’. In the straightened financia...

An accurate map of the County of Worcester divided into its hundreds and drawn from the best authorities. Illustrated with historical extracts rela...

This is an LNER colliery map covering the midlands and north of England and Wales ('Collieries in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lancashir...

Blome published the first new series of county maps in the sixty years since the appearance of John Speed’s ‘Theatre’. In the straightened financia...

William Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. He continued to revise and expand his work, which ...

Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in various 1...

These 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...

“To the Right Honourable Anthony, Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury; Baron Ashley of Winborne St. Giles; Baron Cooper of Powlett in the County of ...

Cheffins’s Map of the English & Scotch Railways Cheffins’s Map of the Railways in England & Scotland, accurately delineating all the lines ...

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...

This map of Reading is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed's county m...

Blaeu’s map of Herefordshire. Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the Br...

Afbeeldinge van’t zeer vermaarde Eiland Geks-Kop This Dutch ‘fool’s cap’ map satirises the bursting of the financial bubbles of 1720. Cartographic ...