British Isles & Islands

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 ...

Carte de la Mer d’Ecosse, Contenant les Isles et Costes Septentrionales et Occidentales d’Ecosse et les Costes Septentrionales d’Irlande This detai...

A Plan of the Town and Township of Liverpool, from an actual survey taken in the year 1785 by C. Eyes This map of Liverpool was surveyed and publis...

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...

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 Huntingdonshire was prepared for Anglia Contracta, Seller's miniature county atlas. Seller's atlases are notoriously difficult to date ...

Das Irische und Kaledonische Meer mit Seinen Inseln This map focuses on the islands off the coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea, and it's from f...

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

Anglesey Ins[ula]; Wight ol[im] Vectis; Ins[ula] Garnsey; Ins[ula] Iarsay This map of Anglesey, the Isle of Wight, Guernsey and Jersey was engraved...

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

Isola Hebride, et Orcade First published in 1572, our map of the Hebrides and Orkney islands is from the second edition of L’Isole piu famose del M...

This map of Berwick-upon-Tweed is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed...

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...

This map of Merionethshire was prepared for Anglia Contracta, Seller's miniature county atlas. Seller's atlases are notoriously difficult to date b...

This map of the British Isles and northwestern Europe charts George Edwards's travels between 1716 and 1730 and features male and female stag beetl...

Britannia Magna This miniature map of the British Isles oriented with East at the top was published in James Beeverell’s ‘Les Delices de la Grand B...

Gros Britanni[en] oder Engelland Schottland und Irrland The cartouche of this map is dominated by the Hanoverian coat of arms, and the legend on th...

Carte reduite des Isles de Jersey Grenesey et d'Aurigny avec les Costes de Normandie et de Bretagne qui en sont voisines This chart covers the Chan...

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...

An accurate map of the County of Worcester divided into its hundreds and drawn from the best authorities. Illustrated with historical extracts rela...

This is an LNER colliery map covering the midlands and north of England and Wales ('Collieries in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lancashir...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Ceretica sive Cardiganensis Comitatus; Anglis Cardigan Shire Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced...