Maps

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...