British Isles & Islands

This map of Monmouthshire and the Severn Estuary is from ‘the rarest edition of Blaeu’s Large Atlases’: only ten of the proposed eleven volumes wer...

La Parte Orientale della Irlanda che comprende le Provincie di Ulster e Leinster This is the eastern sheet of Cassini’s pleasing and unusual two sh...

This map of the northern part of Scotland is from the Hondius-Janssonius map publishing business, which traced its roots back to Gerardus Mercator....

England, with all the railways… This edition of Lizars’ railway map was published c. 1845, featuring lines such as the Maryport & Carlisle Rail...

Cruchley’s Improved Geographical Companion throughout England & Wales including part of Scotland In this map of England and Wales, we have an i...

Map of the North West Circuit of the Principality of Wales, comprising the Counties of Anglesey, Caernarfon & Merioneth, from an Actual Survey…...

A Map of the County Palatine of Lancaster Divided into Hundreds and Parishes from an accurate Survey made in the years 1828 and 1829, For Hennet’s ...

Bradshaw’s map of the railways of England & Wales with part of Scotland, reduced from the highly accurate Ordnance Survey, presented to the sub...

Mappe A […] Militärgeographische Angaben über England […] 3 Auflage, Abgeschlossen am 31 August 1941. Berlin: Generalstab des Heeres, Abteilung für...

Rocque’s traveller’s assistant; being the most general and compleat director extant, to all the post, principal and cross roads in England, Wales, ...

A Travelling County Atlas: With all the Coach and Rail Roads accurately laid down and coloured and carefully corrected to the present time. London:...

Our example of the map has been annotated in ink to show the early expansion of the railway system, with railways completed and under construction....

If thou art worn and hard beset with sorrows that thou wouldst forget… Go to the woods and hills; no tears dim the sweet look that nature wears. He...

Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first chief hydrographic engineer of the "Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministère de la M...

Carte de l’entrée de la Tamise, avec les Bancs, Passes, Isles et Costes comprises entre Sandwich et Clay This is a revised version of a chart which...

Provincia Connachtiae. The Province of Connaught Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, work...

The East Coast of Scotland with the Isles of Orkney and Shetland This sea chart is from ‘Great Britain’s Coasting Pilot’, the first English Sea Atl...

Comitatus Dorcestria vulgo Anglice Dorsetshire Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked...

Magnae Britaniae et Hiberniae Tabula First published in 1631, this map of the British Isles became the Blaeu firm’s principal one for twenty years....

Mogg’s New Map of the Roads. A New Travelling Map of England, Wales and Scotland […] Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 77 x 63.5 cm, a ro...

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

Northumbria, Cumberlandia et Dunelmensis Episcopatus This map of northern England is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractaru...

This map of Middlesex 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 Middlesex was first published in 1746 to accompany Thomas Read’s English Traveller. The the plates were acquired by John Rocque and re-...

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 15.5 x 15.5 cm, modern hand-colour, blank verso; a map of Middlesex engraved by Toms for Thomas Badesla...

This map of Middlesex was published in Geographia Magnae Britanniae, or, Correct Maps of all the Counties in England, Scotland and Wales. It was pr...

This map of Middlesex is from Wallis' Pocket Edition of the English Counties. James Wallis (fl. 1810-1825) was born in Southampton in 1784, the son...

This characteristically clear and elegant map of Lincolnshire is by John Cary, one of the leading cartographic engravers, publishers and globe-make...

Lincolniae Comitatus ubi olim insederunt Coritani This map of Lincolnshire is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translation of Camden’s...

This map of Kent is from Wallis' Pocket Edition of the English Counties. James Wallis (fl. 1810-1825) was born in Southampton in 1784, the son of a...

Hertfordiae Comitatus This map of Hertfordshire is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translation of Camden’s Britannia into English, th...

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

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

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 Buckinghamshire was prepared for William Colling Hobson’s Fox-Hunting Atlas. It is overprinted with the names of the hunts and the plac...

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 Cheshire wasprepared for William Colling Hobson’s Fox-Hunting Atlas. It is overprinted with the names of the hunts and the places of th...

This map of County Durham was engraved by J & C Walker after Creighton for Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary. Condition & Materials Steel eng...

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...

Blome published the first new series of county maps since Speed. In the straightened financial environment of post-Restoration London he had to rep...

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