Maps

This map of ancient Egypt is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt t...

Dapper’s plan of Cairo follows Matteo Pagano’s magnificent 21 sheet wall map, published in Venice in 1549. Cairo was one of the great trading centr...

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

The practical pocket sea atlas by Marseilles hydrographer Joseph Roux, charting the ports and harbours of the Mediterranean, remained popular half ...

This sea chart shows the environs of Marmara Island on the southern coast of the Sea of Marmara, Turkey. The practical pocket sea atlas by Marseill...

A sea chart of Foça, Turkey; near Smyrna. The practical pocket sea atlas by Marseilles hydrographer Joseph Roux, charting the ports and harbours of...

Tabula Aphricae II Ruscelli’s map of North Africa, following Gastaldi, was first issued in his edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia printed by Valgrisi ...

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 52.5 x 26.5 cm; a chart of the Caspian Sea after Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, black and white, ...

Carte de la Mer d’Ecosse, Contenant les Isles et Costes Septentrionales et Occidentales d’Ecosse et les Costes Septentrionales d’Irlande This detai...

A Plan of the Town and Township of Liverpool, from an actual survey taken in the year 1785 by C. Eyes This map of Liverpool was surveyed and publis...

Tabula Prima Asiae continet Pontum, Bithyniam, Asiae propriae dictam, in qua Phyrgia Lyciam Pamphiliam, in qua Pisidia, Galatiam, in qua Paphlagoni...

This map of Cairo is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. It derives, ultimately, from Matteo Pagano’s magnificent 21 sheet wall map, published ...

Le Pik de Teneriffe/De Piek-Bergh op het Eilant Tenerifto The Anaga mountain range meets the sea in the northeastern part of Tenerife, close to the...

Carte des Isles du Cap-Verd This chart of the Cape Verde islands was engraved by Guillaume de la Haye. D’Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780) was a p...

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

[Title-page] Anglorum Indoles Studia et Actiones In attempting to define the character of the English there is a strong emphasis on trade and disco...

Anglesey Ins[ula]; Wight ol[im] Vectis; Ins[ula] Garnsey; Ins[ula] Iarsay This map of Anglesey, the Isle of Wight, Guernsey and Jersey was engraved...

Isola Hebride, et Orcade First published in 1572, our map of the Hebrides and Orkney islands is from the second edition of L’Isole piu famose del M...

This map of Berwick-upon-Tweed is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed...

This map of Berne was first published in 'A collection of plans of the capital cities of Europe' in 1771. The plates seem to have been acquired by ...

This plan of Cologne was first published in 'A collection of plans of the capital cities of Europe' in 1771. The plates seem to have been acquired ...

Thus plan of Dresden was first published in 'A collection of plans of the capital cities of Europe' in 1771. The plates seem to have been acquired ...

This map of Ptolemaic Germany and Denmark is from the fourth edition of Ruscelli’s Italian translation of the Geographia. It is illustrated with de...

This map of Gallipoli in Apulia was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Itinerarium Italiae of 1640, the Archontologi...

Nova Totius Germania Descriptio. Deutschland This map of Germany was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including editions of the ...

Condition & Materials A chart of Sète in southern France, copper engraving, 14 x 20 cm, black and white as issued, blank verso. 

This map of Lyons was published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Archontologia Cosmica and Theatrum Europaeum. Condition &am...

Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 39.5 x 49.5 cm, engraved by J. Basire, black and white as issued, blank verso; map of Mons.

The Babenburg Family Tree The March or Margraviate of Austria had been governed by the Babenburg family since the late tenth century. In 1156 Austr...

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

Ligures, Taurini etc, item Rhaetiae pars Clüver is regarded as one of the founders of historical geography; his Introductionis in universam geograp...

This chart of Astypalaia in the Dodecanese is from the practical pocket sea atlas by Marseilles hydrographer Joseph Roux, charting the ports and ha...

This chart of Ios in the Cyclades is from the practical pocket sea atlas by Marseilles hydrographer Joseph Roux, charting the ports and harbours of...

This map of Dubrovnik and Chalcis waspublished by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Archontologia Cosmica and Theatrum Europaeum...

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 23 x 24.5 cm, black and white as issued, blank verso. Stadtplan of Napoleonic Venice.

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 27.5 x 37 cm, black and white, blank verso. Map showing the Duchy of Mantua.

Britannia Magna This miniature map of the British Isles oriented with East at the top was published in James Beeverell’s ‘Les Delices de la Grand B...

In the margin to the left of this map is an incomplete list of sultans of the Ottoman Empire. The map was published in Wagner’s ‘Delineatio Provinc...

Carte Reduite du Golfe de Bangale D’Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780) was a practical seaman as well as a mapmaker; his sea atlas was published in...

Carte reduite des Isles de Jersey Grenesey et d'Aurigny avec les Costes de Normandie et de Bretagne qui en sont voisines This chart covers the Chan...

The Central London Railway produced a considerable quantity of advertising material in the Edwardian period. Other postcards included views of Lots...

Map of London with John Rennie’s Waterloo and Southwark Bridges (opened 1817 and 1819) shown First published in 1818, the scale, top left on our ex...

Vorstellung des Alten und Neven Athens, von dem Venetiani – schen Geographo Herrn Pat. Coronelli verzeichnet Coronelli’s plan retains features of t...

Two English printers dipped a toe in the vernacular atlas market at approximately the same time with pocket editions of the Ortelius atlas: ‘These ...

Tower Street Ward with their [sic] divisions into Parishes according to a new survey This plan of Tower Street was published in the greatly expande...

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 ...

Baynard’s Castle Ward [and] Faringdon Ward with their divisions into Parishes according to a new survey This was plan of Baynard’s Castle and Farin...

La Bataille de Lens en Flandre gaignee par l’Armee du tres Chres[tien] Louys XIIII Roy de France ed de Navarre, Comandee par Monseigneur le Prince ...