Maps

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

Cartographically Speed follows Mercator, but his is one of the most distinctive and decorative early maps of Scotland. The portraits in the borders...

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

Robert Morden's map of Sussex was engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1...

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...

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

This plan of Valenciennes in northern France is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixte...

Aquisgranum A plan of Aachen, or Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most significant cartographic works of the l...

Emuda vulgo Embden A plan of Emden in northern Germany. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most significant cartographic works of the lat...

[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...

This plan of Gouda in the Netherlands is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-ce...

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...

This map includes French town plans after Belleforest on one sheet: Autun in Burgundy and Nevers in Bourgogne. They are from the Civitates Orbis Te...

This map of Mons in Belgium is shown with Arras in northern France. It is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartograph...

Robert Morden's map of Northumberland was engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprin...

This map of Bedforshire was engraved by Emanuel Bowen for John Owen’s Britannia Depicta, a pocket road book derived from Ogilby’s innovative atlas ...

This map of Huntingdonshire was prepared for Anglia Contracta, Seller's miniature county atlas. Seller's atlases are notoriously difficult to date ...

Das Irische und Kaledonische Meer mit Seinen Inseln This map focuses on the islands off the coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea, and it's from f...

This map of Udrone from is the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under...

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...

This map of Merionethshire is from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s English translation of Camden’s Britannia, the third printing from the ...

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...

Anglesey Insula; Wight olim Vectis; Insula Garnsey; Insula Iarsay This map of Anglesey, the Isle of Wight, Guernsey and Jersey is from the first ed...

Condition & Materials Steel engraving, 25 x 33 cm, recent hand colour, blank verso; map of Bradford

This map of Monmouthshire was engraved to accompany Gibson’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, first published in 1695. Condition & Materials Copp...

This map of Merionethshire was prepared for Anglia Contracta, Seller's miniature county atlas. Seller's atlases are notoriously difficult to date b...

This miniature map of Hesse is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalog...

This map of Dresden engraved by William Henshall after William Barnard Clarke. Condition & Materials Steel engraving, 33 x 37 cm, original han...

Carte de la Guerre de la Crimèe. Editèe par Lèmèrey et E. Gratier This Crimean War broadsheet map includes an inset of Sebastopol and a view of the...

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 miniature map of Nassau is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalo...

This miniature map of Brandenburg is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally c...

This miniature map of Prussia is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catal...

This map of Germany is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued unde...

This map of Eastern Friesland is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catal...

This map of Southwestern Germany is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally ca...

This map of Northen Bavaria is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalog...

This miniature map of the Electoral Palatinate is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which ...

This map of Franconia, including Frankfurt and Nuremberg in modern Bavaria, is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libr...

This miniature map of Saxony is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalo...

Thus miniature map of Dithmarschen in Holstein, flanked by the Eider and the Elbe isfrom the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum...

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 ...