Maps

West Indies – St Croix Island – Christiansted Harbour This is a US naval chart of Christiansted, the largest town on St Croix in the United States ...

This map of the world is coloured by continent, with the exception of Russian America which is coloured as an extension of Asia. It was published i...

Carte du Grand Thibet. Pour Servir à l’Histoire Generale des Voyages. Tirée des Auteurs Anglois… Bellin notes that his map of Tibet was compiled fr...

“To the Right Honourable Anthony, Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury; Baron Ashley of Winborne St. Giles; Baron Cooper of Powlett in the County of ...

This map of Dominica is from 'The Gentleman's Magazine'. It was published after the French recaptured the island during the Anglo-French War of 177...

This map shows the ‘Germanic’ regions of Europe, including the Low Countries, Poland and Austria, engraved by Pieter van den Keere. The 'Atlas Mino...

This map of Poland was engraved by Samuel John Neele for the atlas volume to ‘Cruttwell’s Gazeteer’, published by G & JJ Robinson. Condition &a...

This map of the British Isles with west at the top was published in the French text edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geogr...

Phillimore, Colonel Reginald Henry: Historical Records of the Survey of India. Volumes 1 to 4... alas not including the suppressed fifth volume Col...

Syriae sive Soriae, nova et accurata descriptio Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age,...

This map of New Zealand was published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock ...

Pianta del Nuovo Aquedotto che conduce l’acqua a Civita Vechia fabricato in parte sopra le ruuine dell’ antico construtto da Traiano Imperatore Thi...

La Castille Vieille et Nouvelle This map shows Old and New Castile in central Spain. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 44.5 x 55.5 cm, or...

Tavola Esatta dell’antico Latio e Nova Campagna di Roma, situata sotto il quinto Clima […] Prepared by papal cartographer Innocenzo Mattaei circa 1...

Carte Routière de la France dressée par ordre de Monsieur le Directeur Général des Ponts et Chaussées Though described in the title as a road map o...

Cheffins’s Map of the English & Scotch Railways Cheffins’s Map of the Railways in England & Scotland, accurately delineating all the lines ...

Kreigs Expeditions Karte in Bohmen I Blat, in welchern die Haubstadt Prag mit der Franzofsischen und Saechsischen Belegerug und Eroberung, so den 2...

Mer Méditerranée – Port de Smyrne This French naval chart of Smyrna includes insets of Port d’Abri (the inner harbour at modern day Izmir) and two ...

The Stars in Six Maps, on the the Gnomonic Projection, revised by the Rev. WR Dawes These star charts show allegorical images of the various conste...

Natoliae quae olim Asia Minor nova descriptio / Aegypti recentior descriptio / Carthaginis celeberrimi sinus typus Here on one sheet we have three ...

Preliminary Chart – West Indies – Barbados This chart of Barbados shows sands and soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settleme...

Indsicher Ozean – Golf von Aden – Ansteuerung von Aden This German naval chart of Aden shows breakwaters and lights highlighted in colour. It detai...

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...

Chart of the South East Coast of Arabia from Ras Sukra to Palinurus Shoal, compiled from trigonometric Surveys First published in 1860 with correct...

Terrae Yemen maxima Pars seu Imperii Imami, Principatus Kaukebân, nec non ditionum Haschid u Bekîl, Nehhm, Chaulân, Abu Arîsch Et Aden, Tabula ex o...

Daciarum, Moesiarumque, vetus descriptio This map of Ancient Dacia and Moesia, modern Romania and Bulgaria on the Black Sea was published by Baltha...

This map of Burma was published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 187...

This map attempts full integration of bus and coach routes, tramways, the Underground and main-line railways, and is possibly the first issue showi...

In 1933 the Met became part of the LPTB. Here though, the Tube and other railways fade into the background. The emphasis is on work/life balance, c...

This map of Reading is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed's county m...

Blaeu’s map of Herefordshire. Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the Br...

The Bay of Gibraltar. With a plan of the Town, Rocks and Fortifications of Gibraltar as they now are. Also a plan of Algezira… Copied from the Drau...

Trans-Isula D. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.4 cm, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso; map of Overjissel.

The Seven United Provinces This map of the Netherlands was prepared for Playfair’s New General Atlas. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, ...

This map of Poland is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10.5 cm, recent hand-colour, Fren...

This plan of Tienen in Flanders is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-century,...

Plan du Dock ou du Bassin ‡ flot ‡ Londres dit Katarinen Dock ou Dock St. Katharine. Condition & Materials Lithograph, 35 x 40.5 cm, black and ...

Mappa Totius Mundi adornata juxta Observationes dnn. Academiae Regalis Scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum secundum annotationes recentissimas edita...

Afbeeldinge van’t zeer vermaarde Eiland Geks-Kop This Dutch ‘fool’s cap’ map satirises the bursting of the financial bubbles of 1720. Cartographic ...

Topographia Repraesentio Barbarici Portus et Urbis Munitae Oran … Oran, an important trading port and now Algeria’s second city, was governed by th...

“Hell on Wheels” War Against the Axis 1942 – 1943 – 1944 The lower panel of this map deals with operations in North Africa and Sicily, with the uni...

First published in 1914, this revised edition highlights administrative boundaries. Though technically administered jointly by Egypt and Britain be...

This map of Frankfurt, view of the city at the foot of the map, was published by the SDUK. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was fo...

Ceretica sive Cardiganensis Comitatus; Anglis Cardigan Shire Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced...

Busca, near Cuneo in Piedmont. Blaeu’s townbook of Savoy and Piedmont was first published by the Blaeu heirs in 1682, but the plates were purchased...