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

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

Bowen’s New General Map of America appeared in a number of publications, and features widely held cartographic misconceptions of the time, such as ...

A New and Correct Map of the Countries Twenty Miles round London Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 34 x 39 cm, recent hand-colour, blank ...

Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 23 x 32.5 cm, recent hand-colour, blank verso.

Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 23 x 32.5 cm, recent hand-colour, blank verso.

Brilium, Holandiae Opp. Ob Intestinum Batavicum Bellum, Quod Anno Partae Salutis, M.D.LXXII. Calend Aprlis, Hic Initium Sumpsit, Famosum. [Brielle,...

Aquisgranum A plan of Aachen, or Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most significant cartographic works of the l...

Brunopolis [with] Luneburgum [and] Brema [and] Aldenburgum Holsatiae Four north German towns are shown here on one sheet: Braunschweig, Lüneburg an...

Emuda vulgo Embden A plan of Emden in northern Germany. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most significant cartographic works of the lat...

Fribergum Misinae The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-century, printed over 45 ye...

This plan of Gouda in the Netherlands is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-ce...

Magdeburgum, a Venere quae hic quondam colebatur Parthenopolis dicta, metropolitica Saxoniae urbs The cartouche on this plan of Magdeburg refers to...

This plan of Valenciennes in northern France is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixte...

Wesalia in Ducatu Clivensi Urbs Clara Opibus The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth...

Cassell's 'immense map' of London, of which this is the central sheet, was prepared for the Weekly Dispatch and published in nine parts between Jan...

Cassell's 'immense map' of London, of which this is the south sheet, was prepared for the Weekly Dispatch and published in nine parts between Janua...

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...

Carte de la Guerre de la Crimèe. Editèe par Lèmèrey et E. Gratier This Crimean War broadsheet map includes an inset of Sebastopol and a view of the...

Insula S. Laurentii, vulgo Madagascar The name 'Isle of St Laurence' was given by the Portuguese, who landed on Madagascar on St Laurence's day (Fe...

Ellis' map of Middlesex conveys a wealth of detailed information: borough towns are shown with stars identifying the number of Members returned to ...

This map of Middlesex included a vignette of St. Paul's Cathedral. It was published in James Bell’s 'New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and...

Pas-Caart van de Oost Zee Verthoonende alle de Ghelegentheydt tusschen t'Eylandt Rugen ende Wyborg From one of the finest Dutch marine atlases of t...

This map of Suffolk is from a series of maps engraved between 1787-1791 by Edward Sudlow after John Haywood. It was subsequently published in atlas...

Regionis, quae est circa Londinum […] This map follows Thomas Bowles’ ‘A New and Correct Map of Thirty Miles round London’ published c. 1740. The f...

Cestria Comitatus Palatinatus. The Countye Palatine of Chester Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus...

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

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

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

Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised edition of the Mercator-Hondius a...

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

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...

Suthsexia, vernacule Sussex Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 38.5 x 50.5 cm, modern hand-colour, closed centrefold split with some margi...

This map of Gloucester was engraved by Johannes Kip for 'The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire'. It is one of the earliest views of the cit...

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 Sussex was first issued in The London Magazine, which between 1747 and 1754 published a complete set of English county maps by Thomas K...

German Dominions of the King of Great Britain; Comprized under the name of Electorate of Brunswick-Luneburg and including the Dutchies of Bremen, V...

Cheap Ward with its Divisions into Parishes according to a New Survey This ward plan of Cheap was published in the greatly expanded second edition ...

Les 13 Cantons Suisses et leurs Alliez This map of 13 Swiss Canton is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials Copper engr...

Chapelle du St Sepulchre de N.S. Jesus Christ à Jerusalem The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Cond...

This map of France is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cm, recent hand-colour, French...

Here's King Christian V, as he appears in Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cm, recent han...

Cercle de Baverie This map of Bavaria is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 15 x 11.5 cm, recent h...

This map of France is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cm, recent hand-colour, light ...

France/Paîs Bas This map of France and the Low Countries is from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 15...