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Plan of Lambeth Palace 1750… from the original in the possession of Mr Singleton of Lambeth This plan of Lambeth Palace published in Ducarels’s ‘Th...

Carte générale des découvertes de l’Amiral de Fonte, representant le grande probabilité d’un Passage au Nord Ouest Maps depicting the purported voy...

Preliminary Chart – West Indies – Barbados This chart of Barbados shows sands and soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settleme...

This chart of Dublin bay shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief and settlements (including eastern Dublin), and inset coastal profiles...

This British chart of Durban port was engraved by John and Charles Walker. It shows soundings etc, interior detail of relief and settlements includ...

South America – British Guiana – Georgetown and mouths of Demerara and Essequibo Rivers This British chart of Georgetown shows soundings etc, with ...

China – East Coast – Province of Shan Tung – Kyau Chau Bay This is a British chart of Jiaozhou Bay on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula....

This chart of Jamaica shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements, and an inset of Morant Cays. First published in 1...

Port Florence [Kisumu, Kenya] Kisumu, a port on Lake Victoria, was surveyed as a terminus for the Uganda Railway in 1898. The railway was completed...

West Indies – Tobago – Scarborough – Rockly Bay This chart of Rockly Bay shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements...

Burma – Gulf of Mataban – Rangoon River and Approaches This chart covers the mouth of the river between Rangoon (Yangon) and the sea. It shows vill...

Sheet III – West Coast of India – from Arnol I. to Kundari I This chart shows the approaches to Bombay harbour, modern Mumbai, with significant det...

China Sea – Banka Strait This chart of the Bangka Strait was first published in 1858, but revised from British and Dutch surveys. Bangka and Sumatr...

South Pacific Ocean – Santa Cruz Islands – Vanikoro Islands (La Pérouse) This British chart of Vanikoro was first published in 1873, with correctio...

The Babenburg Family Tree The March or Margraviate of Austria had been governed by the Babenburg family since the late tenth century. In 1156 Austr...

This map of Berne was first published in 'A collection of plans of the capital cities of Europe' in 1771. The plates seem to have been acquired by ...

This plan of Cologne was first published in 'A collection of plans of the capital cities of Europe' in 1771. The plates seem to have been acquired ...

Thus plan of Dresden was first published in 'A collection of plans of the capital cities of Europe' in 1771. The plates seem to have been acquired ...

Humoristiche satyrische Karte von Kriegsschauplatze This Austrian pictorial map satirising the Crimean War was published in July 1854 in No. 55 the...

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...

Carte de la Coste d’Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse. A map of the Arabian peninsula. Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first ch...

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...

After a lonely and hazardous journey (especially after he quarrelled and parted company with Major Stephen Long’s expedition) Beltrami (1779-1855) ...

This miniature map of the Low Countries was published in the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work whic...

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...

De Custen van Engelandt tusschen de droochten van Weembrugh en Poortlandt This chart of part of the Dorset coast features woodcut coastal profiles ...

Fons Herculeus: Cum Suis Colosso, Cryptoporticu, Antris, Sacellis, Scalis, Dioetis, Tricliniis, Statuis, Signis, Tabulis, Coeterisque Musivis, ac m...

Busca, near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased...

Camaldulensium, nondum omnino absoluta ad Lancei oppidum eremus This is the Camaldolese hermitage near Lanzo Torinese in Piedmont (which is visible...

Cartusia Vallis Pisii, fundata 1173 This is the Charterhouse of Pesio, a Carthusian foundation near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy an...

This is a map of Ormea, near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plat...

Carmagnola, just south of Turin in Piedmont, was fought over and extensively remodelled in the mid seventeenth-century; it was briefly recaptured b...

Camberium / Chambery Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reiss...

This map of Demonte in Piedmont was engraved by Juvenal Boetto. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 16...

Moustiers Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and reissued (with B...

Rumiliacum vulgo Rumilly Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased and r...

Exigua & celeberrima Verruca […] This is a map of Verrua Savoia, north east of Turin in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was fi...

Villa Nova dell’ Astegiana This is a map of Villanova d’Asti, in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu ...

This is a map of Revello, near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the pl...

John Stow's A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster was originally published in 1598 and 1603, but revised and expanded works under his na...

John Stow's A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster was originally published in 1598 and 1603, but revised and expanded works under his na...

The Parish of St Johns Wapping; The Parish of St. Paul Shadwell This detailed ward plan of Wapping and Shadwell includes Execution Dock, where sent...

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...

Port Louis is the capital and principal port of Mauritius, which remained a British colony until 1968. Condition & Materials Engraved British c...

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...

The Central London Railway produced a considerable quantity of advertising material in the Edwardian period. Other postcards included views of Lots...

Plan Des Antiquitez De Rome, Représentées Et Distinguées Suivant La Situation De Chacun De Ses Anciens Monuments / Roma Vetus This map of Rome is a...

Condition & Materials Circular folding map of the environs of Paris, 79 x 79 cm, engraved by Barrière (Pére) after Bariolle, black and white, d...