British Isles & Islands

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 36 x 42 cm, recent hand-colour, spotting top left, blank verso. A map of Essex engraved to accompany Gi...

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

This map of Cumberland is by Moule, a bookseller, writer on heraldry and publisher who commissioned what is generally considered to be the last rea...

This map of Berskhire 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 Buckinghamshire is from the so-called miniature Speed. This miniature atlas used maps by van den Keere to illustrate a pocket edition o...

This map of Shropshire was engraved to accompany Gibson’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, first published in 1695. Condition & Materials Copper ...

This map of Lincolnshire was engraved to accompany Gibson’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, first published in 1695. Condition & Materials Coppe...

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

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

This map of Northern Scotland is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catal...

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

This is the southwestern sheet of Mercator’s five regional maps of England and Wales; Janssonius revised the decorative elements in the 1630s, but ...

An Accurate Map of the County Palatine of Chester […] Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 41.5 x 50.5 cm, map of Cheshire with original han...

This map of Merionethshire includes an inset town-plan of Harlech. John Speed (1552-1629) is unquestionably the most significant English map-maker ...

Cumbria & Westmoria. Vulgo Cumberland & Westmorland Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Ho...

Lincolnia Comitatus Anglis Lyncolneshire Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a ...

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...

Cartographically Speed follows Mercator, but his is one of the most distinctive and decorative early maps of Scotland. The portraits in the borders...

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...

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 Udrone from is the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under...

This map of Merionethshire is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s English translation of Camden’s Britannia, the third printing from the ...

Anglesey Insula; Wight olim Vectis; Insula Garnsey; Insula Iarsay This map of Anglesey, the Isle of Wight, Guernsey and Jersey is from the first ed...

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

This map of Monmouthshire was engraved to accompany Gibson’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, first published in 1695. Condition & Materials Copp...

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...

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...

This map of Denbighshire was published in the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translation of Camden’s Britannia into English, the third printi...

This map of Cardiganshire was published in the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translation of Camden’s Britannia into English, the third print...

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...