Maps

Cassell's 'immense map' of London was prepared for the Weekly Dispatch and published in nine parts between January 1861 and April 1862. This exampl...

The map shows the International Exhibition of 1862, which became the site of the Natural History Museum. Cassell's 'immense map' of London was prep...

This route map was published in a report to Congress as ‘Letter from the postmaster general transmitting a report of General Bernard, of surveys of...

At the foot of this scarce map of Glasgow are three vignettes, including Glasgow Bridge, with the harbour in the background. Worldcat gives the lit...

A most attractive Spooner race-game, from Berwick (1) to London (104), via the most picturesque towns. Each town (and a number of others not part o...

This beautiful map of Wales (Wallia Principatus vulgo Wales) features coats of arms of the historic Kingdom of Gwynedd (used by the Princes of Wale...

New Road Map of England & Wales... shewing all the lines of railway, canals &c., describing the picturesque scenery and forming a complete ...

This birds-eye plan of Cambridge printed for the recently nationalised British Railways (presumably the Eastern Region). Hinc lucem et pocula sacra...

This pictorial plan of central Oxford was printed for the recently nationalised British Railways (Western Region). Dominus illuminatio mea The arms...

The Hindustan Review (vol 21, 1910) noted: ‘though there are many railway maps of India, we have no hesitation in commending as the very best the o...

This map is a postwar quad royal version of Beck’s innovative and influential diagram, published for display in stations across the Underground net...

This map of the London tube system has an unusual LNER Advertising Department ink stamp in the legend, indicating that the the map was authorised f...

This is the first printed edition of a world map in Arabic, which was originally drawn in the 11th century CE to illustrate Mahmud al-Kashgari’s ‘D...

The Blaeu firm was official cartographer to the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and Blaeu globes were carried on all VOC vessels; its map-making wa...

Doppelmayr became professor of mathematics at the Aegidien-Gymnasium in Nuremberg in 1704, and enjoyed a close working relationship with the founde...

Eine Neue Charte der Insel Barbadoes Derived from Moll’s map and published in the German translation of Oldmixon's History of America (‘Das Britisc...

A detailed map of Barbados on an East-West alignment, from an edition of the ‘Atlas minor’. This is a variant of the 1732 edition with the volume a...

Born in Wales c. 1693, Emanuel Bowen was an important British cartographer, engraver to both George II and Louis XV. He produced some of the most d...

On returning to Blandford Studio in 1946 after his war service with the Air Ministry, Kerry Lee spent six months working on a map rich in historica...

This pictorial map of London is generally dated 1931 in institutional catalogues, but here Geographia’s date-code for November 1934 is worked into ...

This pictorial map depicts various London ‘types’ in the borders, and shows the Royal Festival Hall (built for the 1951 Festival of Britain) and th...

Engraved by Frans Hogenberg and published in Ortelius' ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’ (generally considered to be the first modern atlas), this map of M...

River Thames Wharf Chart, Sheet 3, showing tiers, moorings, etc. between Barking Creek & Hole Haven. Condition & Materials  Folding map, 75...

Our map captures a particular moment in the history of the docks. After extensive postwar reconstruction and development, the Port of London saw it...