Maps

Le XVII Provinces des Pays Bas divisées en Provinces Unies connues sous le nom de Hollande, et en Pays Bas Catholiques connues sous le nom de Fland...

A Map of the County Palatine of Lancaster Divided into Hundreds and Parishes from an accurate Survey made in the years 1828 and 1829, For Hennet’s ...

Hollandiae Comitatus una cum Ultrajectino Dominio nec non maximis partibus Geldriae Ducatus, per C. Specht This example of Caspar Specht’s map has ...

Bradshaw’s map of the railways of England & Wales with part of Scotland, reduced from the highly accurate Ordnance Survey, presented to the sub...

The focus of this map is Toyama, a significant sea-port in what was once Etchu province on Honshu. On stylistic grounds the map appears to date fro...

South Pacific Ocean – Society Islands – Tahiti and Moorea (Otaheite and Eimeo) This chart was derived from French surveys of 1869 and 1885. The fir...

This map of Vienna was published by the SDUK. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of mak...

Un-titled, undated and without a printer, this exceptionally scarce early poster was created for display in stations, but establishing which ones p...

Our example of the map has been annotated in ink to show the early expansion of the railway system, with railways completed and under construction....

If thou art worn and hard beset with sorrows that thou wouldst forget… Go to the woods and hills; no tears dim the sweet look that nature wears. He...

This pictorial map of London employs an unusual form of Turkish fold which makes use of inclined folding lines. The map is a simplified pocket vers...

MacDonald Gill, brother of Eric, was a successful commercial artist in his own right, and a noted calligrapher who designed the font used on all he...

This iteration of the UERL common design marks George Philip & Son’s first official map for the Underground Group; the firm had designed the fi...

The earliest versions of this map advertised the Franco-British Exhibition which closed at the end of October 1908, marked here as ‘Exhibition’. In...

Our map shows bus, tram and train services operated by the Underground Group and is very similar to the pocket map issued in guidebooks c. 1924.  T...

Carta ilustrada del Muy Noble y Muy Leal Señorio de Vizcaya This map was published to mark the centenary of the Banco de Bilbao, one of the big fou...

Bacon’s large scale plan of the City of London Condition & Materials Folding map, 42.5 x 71 cm, printed in colours, laid on linen as issued, a ...

New Map of London with the recent improvements Condition & Materials Folding map, 51.5 x 77.5 cm, dissected into 32 panels and laid on linen as...

This map of America is from Wyld's New General Atlas. James Wyld senior established a highly successful firm of map publishers, which passed to his...

This map of Milan shows towns heightened in gold. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 41.5 x 54 cm, original hand-colour, closed tears, min...

Bulgaria et Romania: divisa in singulares sangiacatus Silistriam, Nicopolin, Bodinum, Sardiam, Bysantium, Kirkeliam et Gallipolin, una cum finitimi...

This map of the Baltic, with an inset of St Petersburg, is from the Royal Atlas of Modern Geography. Condition & Materials Lithographed map, 45...

James Playfair (1738-1819) was Historiographer to the Prince of Wales and Rector of St Andrews. A comprehensively revised edition of his atlas, "el...

Blaeu's 'carte à figure' map of Europe features ten costume vignettes and nine city views around the edges with galleys, galleons, sea monsters, be...

Condition & Materials  Lithographed in red and black on two sheets, each 38.5 x 80 cm; this map of Long Island is printed on thin india paper; ...

Magnae Britaniae et Hiberniae Tabula First published in 1631, this map of the British Isles became the Blaeu firm’s principal one for twenty years....

A Map of the Metropolitan Boroughs within the County of London The date of publication in the lower margin of this map is significant: 25th October...

Mogg’s New Map of the Roads. A New Travelling Map of England, Wales and Scotland […] Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 77 x 63.5 cm, a ro...

This map of Africa was drawn and engraved by Edward Weller, and includes insets of Mauritius, Réunion and Natal,  Some of the most recent geographi...

This map of ancient Egypt is from Butler's Atlas of Ancient Geography and was engraved by Sidney Hall. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving,...

This map of Middlesex is from Wallis' Pocket Edition of the English Counties. James Wallis (fl. 1810-1825) was born in Southampton in 1784, the son...

This characteristically clear and elegant map of Lincolnshire is by John Cary, one of the leading cartographic engravers, publishers and globe-make...

This map of Kent is from Wallis' Pocket Edition of the English Counties. James Wallis (fl. 1810-1825) was born in Southampton in 1784, the son of a...

This map of Buckinghamshire was prepared for William Colling Hobson’s Fox-Hunting Atlas. It is overprinted with the names of the hunts and the plac...

This map of Cheshire wasprepared for William Colling Hobson’s Fox-Hunting Atlas. It is overprinted with the names of the hunts and the places of th...

This map of County Durham was engraved by J & C Walker after Creighton for Lewis’ Topographical Dictionary. Condition & Materials Steel eng...

Blome published the first new series of county maps since Speed. In the straightened financial environment of post-Restoration London he had to rep...

Mappae Imperii Muscovitici pars Septentrionalis This detailed early 18th century map of Muscovy follows the cartography of De l’Isle, which include...

The first edition of this map was printed in 1932 but the introduction of Beck's diagram in 1933 did not obviate the need for geographically accura...

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...

L’Espagne dressée sur la Description qui en a eté faite par Rodrigo Mendez Sylva… par G. de l’Isle/Nova Regni Hispaniae accurata descriptio… Thus ...

Alsatia Superior cum Suntgoia et Brisgoia The original Mercator Atlas (parts published from 1585 onwards) was not a commercial success; the copper ...

A map of the French Alps, the Dauphiné, incuding Grenoble. The borders are those defined by the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and the cartouche (putti m...

Saxonia Inferior et Mecklenborg Duc The original Mercator Atlas (parts published from 1585 onwards) was not a commercial success; the copper printi...

Terra Sancta, sive Promissionis, olim Palestina recens delineata, et in lucem edita per Nicolaum Visscher… Visscher’s influential map of the Holy L...

Jerusalem, cum suburbiis, prout tempore Christi floruit, accurate notatis omnibus insgnibus et praecipuè iis locis, in quibis Christus passus est e...

This plan of Metz in northeastern France is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth...

Views of two towns on the Bay of Naples, Pozzuoli and Baia, are here presented on one sheet. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most signi...