Maps

This map of British India was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis’ Illustrated Atlas, and includes vignettes engraved by George Greatbach after...

This map of Calcutta includes inset views of the Writers’ Buildings, Government House and Esplanade Row.  Calcutta expanded rapidly under the Gover...

Motus in Coelo Spirales This chart shows the irregular orbits of Mercury and Venus on Tycho Brahe’s model, as observed from Earth, for the years 17...

Sketch Map of Northern and Central East Africa / [Cover title:] Road Map of East Africa This map was ‘compiled with the help of the Public Works an...

The Daily Telegraph was one of a number of newspapers to sponsor London underground maps, like our example from 1919 which also includes the tramwa...

This map of Jamaica includes vignettes of Kingston, Port Royal, Port Antonio, and a sugar mill. The map was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis...

Cantebrigia, opulentissimi Anglie Regni, urbs celeberrimi nominis, ab Academie conditore Cantabro, cognominata: a Granta, fluvio vicino, Cairgrant;...

America Septentrionalis a Domino d'Anville in Galliis edita nunc in Anglia Coloniis in Interiorem Virginiam deductis nec non Fluvii Ohio... This ma...

This map of Dublin was engraved by Edmund Turrell after William Barnard Clarke for The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The SDUK was ...

Wyld’s map of the Theatre of War in the Baltic and Black Seas including the whole of Russia & Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea    This map was ...

Map of the County of Dorset from an Actual Survey The Greenwood brothers were land-surveyors from Yorkshire who compiled one of the last independen...

This map of Malaya has an inset regional map locating Malaya  in the context of ‘adjacent terrritories’. A previous owner of this, map Lieutenant D...

Bacon’s Map of the World on Mercator’s Projection Condition & MaterialsLithographed folding map, sheet size 48 x 66 cm. Original hand colour, a...

Beck’s 1938 passenger map features on its reverse an enlargement of the central London area with interchange stations named inside large diamonds. ...

Underground map of London with some motor bus connections, September 1916 issue. The London General Omnibus Company was by this point owned by the ...

The May 1925 issue of Stingemore’s passenger map shows Wembley Exhibition Grounds, and its covers advertise the number of escalators and other amen...

Victoria or Port Phillip Engraved by John Rapkin for the Illustrated Atlas, this map includes vignettes of Melbourne, the River Glenelg, a kangaroo...

This is the Summer 1928 issue of this portrait format map of the London underground, issued 1928-29.  The style of the lines, stations and intercha...

Smith's New Map of England and Wales, with part of Scotland including the turnpike and principal cross roads, the course of the rivers and navigabl...

London, the Bastion of Liberty On returning to Blandford Studio in 1946 after his war service with the Air Ministry, Kerry Lee spent six months wor...

This tourist plan of Jakarta and Bali was published in Japan Airlines’ Orient Times in September 1975. The map is unsigned, but part of a series in...

This tourist plan of Singapore was published in Japan Airlines’ Orient Times in May 1975.  American commercial artist Raymond Ameijide (1924-2000) ...

This tourist plan of Bangkok was published in Japan Airlines’ Orient Times in August 1975.  American commercial artist Raymond Ameijide (1924-2000)...

This is the North Eastern sheet of Stanford’s Library Map, extending as far east as Straford and West Ham; further sheets were available to extend ...

Wallis's Guide for Strangers, through London, and its Evirons, 1821 The stranger will here find an alphabetical list of streets corresponding to a ...

Brittische Übermacht zur See wieder Franckreich Ao. 1759... Superiorite Britannique par Mer contre La France l'An 1759... This map is a contemporar...

This map of the Dominion of Canada was made by John Bartholomew & Son for Dawson Brothers.  It features insets of the environs of Montreal, New...

This important map of the ‘Gulag’, the Soviet system of forced labour camps, is seemingly the earliest published example of what was to become one ...

Course of the River Mole. From Box Hill Bridge to Leatherhead shewing the situation of the various apertures called Swallows This map charting the ...

Map showing the Western/Eastern Half of Equatorial Africa and the Explorations by Land and Water of Henry M. Stanley in the Years 1874-77 This map ...

Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles in the 1630s and e...

Britannia sits in the central panel of this cartographic board game, contemplating possibilities for commerce and the arts opened up by the new rai...

The Central London Railway pioneered giving maps like this one to passengers free of charge, something which we now take for granted but which only...

Huntington, both shire and shire towne with the ancient citie Ely described This is an unusual example of John Speed’s map of Huntingdonshire – it ...

Olissippo quae nunc Lisboa, civitas amplissima Lusitaniae, ad Tagum, totius Orientis, et multarum Insularum Aphricaeque et Mericae emporium nobilis...

Sheets 44E/44F: North Sumatra and part of Siam/Part of Siam, Malaya and East Sumatra For the highly classified production of Escape & Evasion m...

Cloth Survival Chart S-12: Western Pacific Covering the Western Pacific, this is the largest of the  US Navy ‘handkerchief’ charts. One side shows ...

This is the index map and key to the Ordnance Survey sheets covering the entire county Tyrone on a scale of six inches to the mile. Condition &...

This is the index map and key to the Ordnance Survey sheets covering the entire county Armagh on a scale of six inches to the mile Condition & ...

This issue of Beck’s 1934 map saw a slight increase in size of the card folder given away to passengers.  Beck’s diagram is one of the most innovat...

Our map of the London underground is the second edition in a series designed by Fred Stingemore, issued free to passengers from May 1925 onwards an...

Map of India and Birmah  This map of India and Burma features an inset location map with British possessions coloured red, next to a distance table...

Map of India, constructed with great care and research from all the Latest Authorities and intended more particularly to facilitate a reference to ...

Map of China, Japan and Korea. / [Cover title:] The Eastern Crisis. Bacon's large-scale map of Japan, Korea, China, Manchuria Produced to illustrat...

Chine du nord - Corée - Manchoukouo Manchukuo – a Japanese term for Manchuria – was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in China and Inner Mongol...

This is a separately issued example of a map of Ireland which also appeared in Arrowsmith’s major work, his influential ‘London Atlas of Universal ...

Portus Pulchri in Isthmo Panamensi [with] Scenographia Portus Pulchri This is a plan and view of the successful British attack on the wealthy and s...

This map of Tehran features a legend in the borders listing 218 places of interest in the pre-Revolutionary city. The mapmaker’s own premises are i...