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[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 second Through groups of allegorical figures the atlas makers ‘sought to promise the...

[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...

[Title-page] The English Atlas, Volume II Pitt worked in partnership with Janssonius’ heir Joannes van Waesbergen, and this title-page for the Germ...

[Title-page] Atlas Historique The classical muses on this title page represent Chronology, History, Navigation and Geography. Atlas braces himself ...

[Title-Page] Mercurio Geografico […] Tomo Secondo […] Condition & Materials  Copper engraved title-page, 42 x 26.5 cm, black and white as issue...

This plan of Douai (Duacum) in northern France was published in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the...

This map of Mons in Belgium is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-century, pri...

This plan of Namur in Belgium is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-century, p...

This map of Limbourg or Limburg is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-century,...

This is the general title page for Blaeu’s town books of the Netherlands.  The first volume features plans and views of the towns of the Northern p...

Eboracensis Comitatus […] pars Orientalis, vulgo East Riding. This map of the East Riding is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translat...

Wesmorlandia e comitatis. This map of Westmorland is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translation of Camden’s Britannia into English, ...

This map of Sussex was first issued in The London Magazine, which between 1747 and 1754 published a complete set of English county maps by Thomas K...

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

This map of the Mughal Empire is dedicated by the Blaeu brothers to Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen (1599–1661), a prosperous dealer in pelts and a...

Beck’s diagram is possibly one of the most innovative and influential designs of the 20th century. First published in 1933, Beck remained directly ...

This map of Persia, Afghanistan and Balochistan is part of the Authentic Imperial Maps series published by the London Geographical Institute. Condi...

Founded in 1894, on the cusp of the Anglo-German naval arms race, the Navy League was a pressure group seeking to influence politicians and popular...

This map of Tasmania was engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas'. John Rogers engraved the black and white vignettes including Hobart T...

Particulars, with Plans, Key Plan and Conditions of Sale of the Hoxton Estate The Hoxton estate passed by marriage from the Pitfield to the Sturt f...

A Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, exhibiting the seat of war both in Europe and America according to the latest discoveries and regulated by Astronomi...

Carte de la Normandie, divisée par Generalités et subdivisée par Elections Condition & Materials Folding map of Normandy, 68 x 102.5 cm, origin...

This map of Poland was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. It is coloured according to the third partition of 1795, by which the ...

L’Amerique Meridionale qui fait l’autre partie des Indes Occidentales This map of South America features figures in indigenous costume and a vignet...

This is the Tuscan island of Elba, a map newly added to the ‘Atlas Novus’ in 1640. Koeman records that it was first published in the French text ed...

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...

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...

This map of Middlesex was engraved by Toms for Thomas Badeslade’s ‘Chorographia Britanniae’, an attractive pocket atlas which according to Badeslad...

This map shows the Swedish Empire, including Finland and Swedish Livonia. It waspublished in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et...

Estats du Grand Duc de Moscovie ou de l’Empereur de la Russie Blanche This map of Muscovy, or European Russia, was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouve...

Les estats de la Couronne de Pologne This map of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géograp...

Les Royaumes de Portugal et d’Algarve This map of Portugal was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’....

La Judée ou Terre Sainte, divisée en ses douze Tribus This is the second state of Robert de Vaugondy’s Old Testament map of the Holy Land. The map ...

Het Beloofde Landt Canaan door wandelt van onfen Salichmaeker Iesu Christo, nessens syne Apostelen Oriented to the west, this map of the Holy Land ...

This map of Lisbon was engraved by Josiah Henshall after William Barnard Clarke. It was published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowle...

This map of Asia was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. New South Wales appears here on the west coast of ‘New Holland’. James W...

This map of Africa features was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. It features an inset of the Azores and Cape Verde islands. Mu...

The Province of Connaugh with the Citie of Galwaye described […] The inset plan of Galway is the earliest printed map of the city, and Speed was al...

[Title page: Atlas Novus, volume IV] This is an architectural title page, engraved for the fourth volume of Blaeu’s Atlas Novus. The central panel ...

Clang, clang, clang went the trolley… Trolleybus services were introduced to London in 1931 and phased out between 1954 and 1962, making this one o...

Originally published in the series ‘Twenty-Four Views in Hindostan’, a part-work issued 1802-1805 to illustrate Francis Blagdon’s ‘Brief History of...

Sold by John Bowles, Print and Map Seller over against Stocks Market This print was issued in ‘London Described’ but like so many of the views in t...

From ‘Sketches at Home and Abroad’, printed by Charles Hullmandel for Charles Tilt. London Bridge and the Monument can be glimpsed through a forest...

The Opening of the New London Bridge by their most Gracious Majesties William the 4th & Queen Adelaide Our print depicts the river pageant cele...

This view is from 'Isolario dell'Atlante Veneto', perhaps the last of the great Italian ‘island books’. If Coronelli’s St Paul’s differs somewhat f...

Gezigt van den Tuin van Somerset’s Paleis, Langs den Theems tot op de Brug van Londen This view was engraved by . Philips after Antonio Canaletto’s...

Prospectus majoris viae, et Ecclesiae Sanctae Mariae in Londino / La Grande Ruë et l’Eglise Ste. Marie Jean François Daumont (fl. 1740-1775) was a ...