Maps

Scarpanto (Karpathos) This map of Karpathos was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and hist...

Milo (Milos) This map of Milos was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated initi...

Negroponte (Euboea) This map of Negropoonte was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and hist...

Il Sito de Curzolari (and Gulf of Lepanto) This map of the gulf of Lepanto was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text wi...

Cerigo (Kythera) This map of Kythera was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated...

Nicsia (Naxos) This map of Naxos was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece and historiated ini...

Metellino (Mytilene, Lesbos) This map of Mitilini was engraved by Girolamo Porro and is set in descriptive Italian text with a woodcut headpiece an...

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 21 x 25.5 cm, original hand-colour, on a folio leaf 37 x 29 cm, blank verso.

Loosely inserted into this railway guide is a 1952 letter from Bradshaw’s, replying to an enquiry from Gordon C. Dickinson, a former owner of our c...

Underground Railways of London What to see and how to travel: Map of the Electric Railways of London Condition & Materials Summer 1925 issue of...

Karte von der Insel St Lucia This map of the Caribbean island of St Lucia was published in the Dutch edition of Prévost's Histoire Générale des Voy...

This map of the British Isles and northwestern Europe charts George Edwards's travels between 1716 and 1730 and features male and female stag beetl...

Scandinavia complectens Sveciae, Daniae et Norvegiae Regna ex novissimis subsidiis delineata et ad Leges Projectionis Stereographicae legitimae red...

Graeciae Pars Meridionalis / Graciae Antiquae Tabula Nova in qua locorum situs tum ad distantias itinerarias tum ad Observationes Astronomicas exac...

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...

Gros Britanni[en] oder Engelland Schottland und Irrland The cartouche of this map is dominated by the Hanoverian coat of arms, and the legend on th...

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...

Blome published the first new series of county maps in the sixty years since the appearance of John Speed’s ‘Theatre’. In the straightened financia...

Blome published the first new series of county maps in the sixty years since the appearance of John Speed’s ‘Theatre’. In the straightened financia...

At the foot of this map are architectural elevations of some of Rome’s most famous post-classical buildings, dominated by St Peter’s. Rome was then...

This map of Australia has a table in the bottom left, showing the European population (supposedly revised to 1846 but with the original figure give...

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

Metropolitan Goods Conference Map of Collection & Delivery Boundary This map is a variant of the London plan typically issued with Kelly’s Dire...

An accurate map of the County of Worcester divided into its hundreds and drawn from the best authorities. Illustrated with historical extracts rela...

British Empire Throughout the World Exhibited in One View This is a highly decorative map of the British Empire by John Bartholemew, with British p...

Survey of the country around London to the distance of thirty two miles from St Paul’s The map extends between Ware and Chatham, Bray and Dorking. ...

District within ¼ mile radius [of] Manor House Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, w...

Garbutt believed he had ‘rescued’ the London Underground map from the clutches of Harold Hutchison and his ‘ham-fisted parody’ of Beck’s designs. H...

This is an LNER colliery map covering the midlands and north of England and Wales ('Collieries in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lancashir...

Blome published the first new series of county maps in the sixty years since the appearance of John Speed’s ‘Theatre’. In the straightened financia...

William Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. He continued to revise and expand his work, which ...

Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in various 1...

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

The United Nations was established in October 1945, and Bullock’s map is a joyful celebration of what promised to be a more effective successor to ...

Partie Méridionale de la Russie Européenne This is a late state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of southern Russia, Ukraine and parts of Poland. The or...

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

District within ¼ mile radius [of] Uxbridge Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, with...

The guide seems to have been aimed at an American audience, with several pages devoted to converting prices in pounds, shillings and pence into dol...

This Central London Railway map is similar in style to the UERL common design which had been in circulation since 1908, although with a chocolate r...

Benjamin Getzel Lewis' map of the London underground shows the Victoria Line under construction in the originally proposed colour Lewis (1900-1966)...

The Evening News was responsible for coining the name ‘Bakerloo Line’ for the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway, and here the newspaper makes a rel...

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...

Carte de l’Italie, dans laquelle sont tracées les Routes des Postes This is a later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s road map of Italy, showing the Ve...

Le Royaume de Boheme, le Duche de Silesie, et les Marquisats de Moravie et Lusace, dressés d’apres les cartes de Muller The second state of Robert ...