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This map of Liddesdale, in the Scottish borders, is from Golden Age Dutch cartographer Blaeu’s Scottish atlas. First published in 1654, the atlas w...

A new gradually encreasing Compass-Map of part of the Sea Coasts of England, in which is contained the Coasts of Sussex, extending from Eastwards o...

This map of Edinburgh is one of the town plans in Tallis’ hugely popular ‘Illustrated Atlas’ which was published serially from the mid 1840s onward...

A New Geographical Pastime: Walker’s Tour through England and Wales Most games of this nature were educational, and in this case players learn as t...

G. Bradshaw’s Map of Canals, Navigable Rivers, Rail Roads etc. in the Southern Counties of England. From actual survey shewing heights of the ponds...

Nieuwe Kaarte van der XVII Nederlandsche Provincien: waar in aangewezen worden de landen door den Koning van Vrankryk geconquesteerd als mede die v...

This is a collection of 61 intelligence handbooks, 1943-1945, covering enemy and occupied countries and compiled by the Foreign Office and Ministry...

In the 1920s Valletta was the location of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet's headquarters. Prepared on the island, this map of Malta has a grid...

Carte de L’Arabie, du Golfe Persique et de la Mer Rouge, avec L’Egypte, La Nubie et L’Abissinie This map of Arabia was published in an Italian edit...

This pictorial map of Liverpool is folded into a souvenir record-sleeve style pack which comprises: ‘Nothing to get hung up about’, a 30 page shor...

A New Geographical Pastime The elder John Wallis (c. 1745-1818) recovered from bankruptcy to become one of the major publishers of children’s games...

[Map of] Afghanistan, political, phisical [sic], roads and distances, important historical sites According to the online resource Encyclopaedia Ira...

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...

The 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...

Bradshaw’s Railway Companion, containing the times of departure, fares &c., of the railways in England, and also hackney coach fares from the p...

[Title in Greek and Latin] Stephani Byzantini Gentilia per epitomen, antehac… De urbibus inscripta [with] Notae et castigationes postumae in Stepha...

Mary Sims and Mary Camidge, both signing as 'of Maps and Guides, Ltd', each produced posters for British Railways (Eastern Region) in 1960. They th...

Map of the Great Western Railway and Connections This map illustrates how the Great Western Railway connected resources such as coal fields, china ...

The map shows bus, tram and train services operated by the Underground Group and is very similar to the pocket map issued in guidebooks c.1924 (ill...

This pictorial map grouping the three counties northeast of London was published by British Railways (Eastern Region) to promote leisure travel jus...

Les Vignobles de France – Vins de Champagne Government and national wine trade bodies sponsored Louis Larmat’s regional wine atlases in the 1940s a...

Plot, Robert: The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England. By R.P. LL.D. Oxford: Printed at the Theat...

This is a map of the Italian island of Sardinia, oriented with north to the left of the map. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, sheet size...

[Title-page] Atlas Novus This title-page shows Europe, seated, accepting tribute from the other continents: Asia, Africa and America. In the foregr...

This view shows the major eruption of Vesuvius in December 1631, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Ital...

This is a view of the Solfatara volcanic crater, mythological home of Vulcan in the Phlegraean Fields at Pozzuoli, near Naples. It was published by...

This plan of of Ostia was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640, the Archontologia cosmica ...

This plan of Piacenza was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640, the Archontologia cosmica ...

This map of Baden in Switzerland was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Archontologia cosmica, Theatrum Europaeum an...

This map of Stade was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Condition & Materials Copper engrav...

This map of Wismar was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Condition & Materials Copper engr...

This map of Aachen, or Aix-la-Chapelle, was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Condition & M...

This plan of Mantua was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum ...

This 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...

This plan of Palmanova (a Venetian town founded in 1593, sheltered behind innovative fortifications taking the form of a nine-pointed star) was pub...

This plan of Loreto (site of the Basilica della Santa Casa) was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Itali...

This plan of Pavia (the ancient Ticinum) was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and edit...

This plan of Naples was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum ...

This plan of Messina was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum...

This map of Bremen was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Condition & Materials Copper engra...

This map of Rostock was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Condition & Materials Copper eng...

This plan of Florence was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatru...

Brunopolis [with] Luneburgum [and] Brema [and] Aldenburgum Holsatiae Four north German towns are shown here on one sheet: Braunschweig, Lüneburg an...

Magdeburgum, a Venere quae hic quondam colebatur Parthenopolis dicta, metropolitica Saxoniae urbs The cartouche on this plan of Magdeburg refers to...

Fribergum Misinae The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-century, printed over 45 ye...

Wesalia in Ducatu Clivensi Urbs Clara Opibus The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth...

[Title-page] Description de l’Univers Tome I This is the title-page for the first volume of Mallet’s Description de l’Univers printed by Denis Thie...

[Title-page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas, Tome Troisieme Copper engraved title-page, 37.5 x 23.5 cm, later hand-colour, blank verso...