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This attractive, detailed map of the county of Middlesex is unsigned; as yet, we have been unable to identify the engraver. Do feel free to write t...

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...

L’Empire du Chine pour servir a l’Histoire Universelle, d’une Societe de Gens de Lettres Our example of Bellin’s map of China, with text in French ...

Carte de Isles du Japont et la presqu' Isle de Coree avec les costes de la Chine depuis Pekin jusqua Canton . . . Bellin compiled maps like this on...

Plan du Port et de la Ville de Nangasaki This is a plan of the port city of Nagaski, one of Japan’s chief points of contact with the outside world ...

Karte von der Küste von Angola von dem Flusse Bengo bis an den Fluss Quanza This map show the coastline of northern Angola between the rivers Bengo...

Partie de la Mer Glaciale, contenant la Nouvelle Zemble et le Pays de Samoiedes Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 23 x 36.5 cm, recent ha...

Carte du Dètriot de Waeigats, ou de Nassau This is map of the Yugorsky Strait in the Arctic Sea, separating Vaygach Island from the mainland. It il...

Carte du Grand Thibet. Pour Servir à l’Histoire Generale des Voyages. Tirée des Auteurs Anglois… Bellin notes that his map of Tibet was compiled fr...

This is a map of the Maluku Islands, part of the mountainous, volcanic archipelago known to Europeans as the spice islands. The islands were the fo...

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...

Veromandui This map of the modern Aisne is named here for the Viromandui, a Belgic tribal name. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 9.5 x 1...

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

This map of Franconia, including Frankfurt and Nuremberg in modern Bavaria, is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libr...

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

This map of Northen Bavaria is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalog...

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

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 Southwestern Germany is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally ca...

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

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cm, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso; miniature map of Artois.

This miniature map of Brandenburg is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally c...

Thus miniature map of Dithmarschen in Holstein, flanked by the Eider and the Elbe isfrom the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum...

Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cm, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso; map of Hainault.

This miniature map of Hesse is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalog...

Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cm, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso; map of Liège.

This miniature map of Nassau is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalo...

Trans-Isula D. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cm, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso; map of Overjissel.

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

A miniature map of Salzburg and Carinthia. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 10 x 13.5 cm, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso; 

This miniature map of Saxony is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalo...

This tiny map of Scotland was engraved by Pieter van den Keere for the Caert-thresoor published by Cornelis Claesz and Barent Langenes in 1598. Deg...

This miniature map of the Electoral Palatinate is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which ...

Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cm, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso; map of the Zijpe polder.

This map of the French island of Corsica, ruled by the Genoese in the 17th century and included in the Italian volume of Blaeu’s atlas, is oriented...

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...

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 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...

This is a map of the Italian island of Sardinia, oriented with north to the left of the map. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, sheet size...

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...

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...

Carte de L’Arabie, du Golfe Persique et de la Mer Rouge, avec L’Egypte, La Nubie et L’Abissinie This map of Arabia is from the Atlas de Toutes Part...

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

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