Maps

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...

This view shows the major eruption of Vesuvius in December 1631, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Ital...

This is a view of the Solfatara volcanic crater, mythological home of Vulcan in the Phlegraean Fields at Pozzuoli, near Naples. It was published by...

This plan of of Ostia was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640, the Archontologia cosmica ...

This plan of Piacenza was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640, the Archontologia cosmica ...

This map of Baden in Switzerland was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Archontologia cosmica, Theatrum Europaeum an...

This map of Stade was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Condition & Materials Copper engrav...

This map of Wismar was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Condition & Materials Copper engr...

This map of Aachen, or Aix-la-Chapelle, was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Condition & M...

This plan of Mantua was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum ...

This plan of Genoa was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum E...

This plan of Palmanova (a Venetian town founded in 1593, sheltered behind innovative fortifications taking the form of a nine-pointed star) was pub...

This plan of Loreto (site of the Basilica della Santa Casa) was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Itali...

This plan of Pavia (the ancient Ticinum) was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and edit...

This plan of Naples was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum ...

This plan of Messina was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatrum...

This map of Bremen was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Condition & Materials Copper engra...

This map of Rostock was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Condition & Materials Copper eng...

This plan of Florence was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640 and editions of the Theatru...

[Title-page] Description de l’Univers Tome I This is the title-page for the first volume of Mallet’s Description de l’Univers printed by Denis Thie...

[Title-page] The English Atlas, Volume II Pitt worked in partnership with Janssonius’ heir Joannes van Waesbergen, and this title-page for the Germ...

[Title-page] Atlas Historique The classical muses on this title page represent Chronology, History, Navigation and Geography. Atlas braces himself ...

[Title-Page] Mercurio Geografico […] Tomo Secondo […] Condition & Materials  Copper engraved title-page, 42 x 26.5 cm, black and white as issue...

Het Beloofde Landt Canaan door wandelt van onfen Salichmaeker Iesu Christo, nessens syne Apostelen Oriented to the west, this map of the Holy Land ...

Asia veteribus nota. L’Asie ancienne, dirigée par M. Philippe This is a map of Asia as it was understood in the Greco-Roman world in classical anti...

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

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...

Plan du Siege de Namur avec les nouveaux travaux que sa Majesté y a fait adjouter qui sont marquees à la lettre A. Cette place fut reduitte à l’obb...

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

Plan Des Villes De Londres et de Westminster et leurs Faubourgs avec le Bourg de Southwark This is the first version of the map, before the date wa...

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...

Pomeraniae Wandalicae Regionis Typ. [on sheet with] Livoniae Nova descriptio [and] Ducatus Oswieczensis et Zatoriensis Descriptio An early example ...

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...

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...

Parte Occidentale/Orientale del Governo Generale d’Orleans This map of the Duchy of Orleans is from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and finely engr...

Governo Generale dell’Isola Di Francia (Île-de-France) This map of Île-de-France is from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work. ...

Il Ducato di Bar diviso ne suoi tre Baliaggi de Barleduc, di S. Michel, e Bassigny […] e li Territorii della Citta e Vescovati di Metz, Tul e Verdu...

Il Ducato di Lorena (Lorraine) This map of Lorraine is from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work. Condition & Materials Cop...

La Savoia divisa nelle sue Principali Provincie da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola [….] This is a map of Savoy from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and...

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...

Plan of Coleman Street and Bassishaw Wards; Plan of Portsoken Ward; Plan of Cripplegate Ward Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 34 x 22 cm...

This view of Constantinople isfrom Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt ...

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

Constantinopoli / Descrittione di Constantinopoli First published in 1572, our example of Porcacchi’s map of Constantinople is from the second edit...

This map of Ancient Jerusalem is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfu...

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