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This map of the world is coloured by continent, with the exception of Russian America which is coloured as an extension of Asia. It was published i...

This chart of the Pacific Ocean features two regions named New South Wales. Cook’s New South Wales in Australia remains familiar, but the other, on...

Carte du Grand Thibet. Pour Servir à l’Histoire Generale des Voyages. Tirée des Auteurs Anglois… Bellin notes that his map of Tibet was compiled fr...

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

This map of Dominica is from 'The Gentleman's Magazine'. It was published after the French recaptured the island during the Anglo-French War of 177...

This map shows the ‘Germanic’ regions of Europe, including the Low Countries, Poland and Austria, engraved by Pieter van den Keere. The 'Atlas Mino...

This map of Hungary was engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’. It features vignettes, including Budapest, engraved by John Rogers. Co...

This map of Poland was engraved by Samuel John Neele for the atlas volume to ‘Cruttwell’s Gazeteer’, published by G & JJ Robinson. Condition &a...

This map of the British Isles with west at the top was published in the French text edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geogr...

Phillimore, Colonel Reginald Henry: Historical Records of the Survey of India. Volumes 1 to 4... alas not including the suppressed fifth volume Col...

Gothofredus, Dionysius (ed.): Auctores Latinae linguae in unum redacti corpus: quorum auctorum veterum & neotericorum Elenchum sequens pagina d...

Syriae sive Soriae, nova et accurata descriptio Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age,...

This map of New Zealand was published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock ...

Pianta del Nuovo Aquedotto che conduce l’acqua a Civita Vechia fabricato in parte sopra le ruuine dell’ antico construtto da Traiano Imperatore Thi...

La Castille Vieille et Nouvelle This map shows Old and New Castile in central Spain. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 44.5 x 55.5 cm, or...

Tavola Esatta dell’antico Latio e Nova Campagna di Roma, situata sotto il quinto Clima […] Prepared by papal cartographer Innocenzo Mattaei circa 1...

Carte Routière de la France dressée par ordre de Monsieur le Directeur Général des Ponts et Chaussées Though described in the title as a road map o...

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

Kreigs Expeditions Karte in Bohmen I Blat, in welchern die Haubstadt Prag mit der Franzofsischen und Saechsischen Belegerug und Eroberung, so den 2...

Mer Méditerranée – Port de Smyrne This French naval chart of Smyrna includes insets of Port d’Abri (the inner harbour at modern day Izmir) and two ...

The Stars in Six Maps, on the the Gnomonic Projection, revised by the Rev. WR Dawes These star charts show allegorical images of the various conste...

Natoliae quae olim Asia Minor nova descriptio / Aegypti recentior descriptio / Carthaginis celeberrimi sinus typus Here on one sheet we have three ...

Theoria Planetarum Primariorum This celestial chart depicts the orbits of the major planets according to Copernicus and Kepler, who shared heliocen...

Phaenomena Motuum Irregularium quos Planetae inferiores Venus et Mercurius ad annum Salutis 1720 This celestial chart shows the orbits of Earth, Me...

Preliminary Chart – West Indies – Barbados This chart of Barbados shows sands and soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settleme...

Indsicher Ozean – Golf von Aden – Ansteuerung von Aden This German naval chart of Aden shows breakwaters and lights highlighted in colour. It detai...

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...

Chart of the South East Coast of Arabia from Ras Sukra to Palinurus Shoal, compiled from trigonometric Surveys First published in 1860 with correct...

Terrae Yemen maxima Pars seu Imperii Imami, Principatus Kaukebân, nec non ditionum Haschid u Bekîl, Nehhm, Chaulân, Abu Arîsch Et Aden, Tabula ex o...

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

Daciarum, Moesiarumque, vetus descriptio This map of Ancient Dacia and Moesia, modern Romania and Bulgaria on the Black Sea was published by Baltha...

This intricate anthropomorphic map (the artist also produced a zoomorphic companion piece) was issued soon after the outbreak of the First World Wa...

Bacon’s Large Scale Plan of the City of London –Bacon’s Coloured Plan of the City of London… “Blitzed” areas shown A highly detailed map of London ...

Proctor, Robert: Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes and of a residence in Lima and other parts of Peru in the years 1823 and...

Hesiod: Hesiodo Ascraei poetae vetustissimi ac sapientissimi opera, quae quidem extant, omnia Graecè, cum interpretatione latina è regione, ut conf...

Arnobius: Adversus Gentes Libri VII. Cum Recensione Viri Celeberrimi, & integris omnium commentariis. Editio novissima atque omnium accuratissi...

This map of Burma was published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 187...

This map attempts full integration of bus and coach routes, tramways, the Underground and main-line railways, and is possibly the first issue showi...

In 1933 the Met became part of the LPTB. Here though, the Tube and other railways fade into the background. The emphasis is on work/life balance, c...

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...

Maximus of Tyre: [Greek title] Sermones sive Disputationes XLI. Graece nunc primum editae. [Geneva]: ex officina Henrici Stephani Parisiensis typog...

Oppian: [Greek title:] Alieutikwn biblia pente... Kynhgetikwn biblia tessara. Oppiani de piscibus libri V. Eiusdem de venatione libri IIII. Oppiani...

Diogenes Laertius; Eunapius of Sardis: [...] De Vitis, dogm. & apophth. clarorum philosophorum, Libri X. Heschyii ill. de iisdem philos. & ...

Aeneas of Gaza; Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene: De immortalitate animae, et mortalitate universi, ex recensione et cum animadversionibus Casparis Ba...

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...

The Bay of Gibraltar. With a plan of the Town, Rocks and Fortifications of Gibraltar as they now are. Also a plan of Algezira… Copied from the Drau...

Trans-Isula D. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cm, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso; map of Overjissel.

The Seven United Provinces This map of the Netherlands was prepared for Playfair’s New General Atlas. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, ...