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Biledulgerid en General This map of North Africa is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 ...

Allemagne en General This map of Northern Germany is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 15.5 x 11....

This map of Poland is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10.5 cm, recent hand-colour, Fren...

This map of São Salvador is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. São Salvador was once the capital of the kingdom of Congo, but as M’banza-Kongo...

This map of Sicily is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt the foll...

Albanie, Grand Armenie, Colchide et Iberie selon les anciens This map of the Ancient Caucasus is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition ...

This map of the Netherlands is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 15 x 10 cm, recent hand-colour, ...

Du Nil et ses Embouchures et des Crocodiles This map of the Nile delta (with crocodiles) is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition &...

Turquie Septentrionale en Europe This map of the Northern Ottoman Territories is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials ...

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

This map of the sources of the Nile is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10.5 cm, recent ...

Here are some lovely Swedes, from from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cm, recent hand-co...

Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cm, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers.

Mechelin, or Malines, the Capital of one of the ten Provinces of the Netherlands in Brabant This map of Mechelen was engraved by James Basire and p...

This is the southwestern sheet of Mercator’s five regional maps of England and Wales; Janssonius revised the decorative elements in the 1630s, but ...

Pomerania, running along the Baltic coast between Rostock and Gdansk, is now divided between Germany and Poland. The 'Atlas Minor’ was a pocket atl...

This map of Anjou is from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the London trade in t...

This map of the province of Berry in central France is from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these ...

This map of Île-de-France, the Paris region north of the Seine, is from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but ...

This map of Northern Lorraine is from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the Londo...

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

This is Mercator's map of Pays Boulonnais and Guînes from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these we...

This map of Southern Lorraine is from the Atlas Minor. The original plates were engraved by Jodocus Hondius, but after these were sold to the Londo...

Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1722 and ...

Robert Morden's county maps, like this one of Cornwall, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an ...

Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in various e...

Robert Morden's county maps, like this one of Lancashire (the county palatine of Lancaster), were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of Willi...

Robert Morden's country maps, like this one of Suffolk, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an ...

Robert Morden's county maps, like this one of Surrey, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an El...

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...

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...

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 36 x 42 cm, recent hand-colour, spotting top left, blank verso. A map of Essex engraved to accompany Gi...

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...

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 Monmouthshire was engraved to accompany Gibson’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, first published in 1695. Condition & Materials Copp...

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 Shropshire was engraved to accompany Gibson’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, first published in 1695. Condition & Materials Copper ...

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...

This map of Middlesex is illustrated with vignettes of Buckingham Palace (before its early 20th century re-modelling) and the ‘new’ Houses of Parli...

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

This view of the Latvian capital Riga is fromfrom Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia. A compendium of topographical information, folklore and travels...

This map of Scandinavia is from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia. A compendium of topographical information, folklore and travels, it was first pub...

Terrae Yemen maxima Pars seu Imperii Imami, Principatus Kaukebân, nec non ditionum Haschid u Bekîl, Nehhm, Chaulân, Abu Arîsch Et Aden, Tabula ex o...

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 19 x 25 cm, recent hand-colour, blank verso; a plan of Tower Ward published in Noorthouck’s History of ...

Limestreet Ward divided into Parishes according to a late Survey Possibly engraved by Thomas Bowen and first published in the London Magazine, this...

Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet covers the road between High Barnet ...

Our journey to Dover begins in London and follows the road through Deptford, Blackheath, Shooter’s Hill, and Dartford, reaching Dover via Rochester...