Maps

This issue of Beck’s 1934 map saw a slight increase in size of the card folder given away to passengers.  Beck’s diagram is one of the most innovat...

Our map of the London underground is the second edition in a series designed by Fred Stingemore, issued free to passengers from May 1925 onwards an...

Map of India and Birmah  This map of India and Burma features an inset location map with British possessions coloured red, next to a distance table...

Map of India, constructed with great care and research from all the Latest Authorities and intended more particularly to facilitate a reference to ...

Map of China, Japan and Korea. / [Cover title:] The Eastern Crisis. Bacon's large-scale map of Japan, Korea, China, Manchuria Produced to illustrat...

Chine du nord - Corée - Manchoukouo Manchukuo – a Japanese term for Manchuria – was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in China and Inner Mongol...

This is a separately issued example of a map of Ireland which also appeared in Arrowsmith’s major work, his influential ‘London Atlas of Universal ...

Portus Pulchri in Isthmo Panamensi [with] Scenographia Portus Pulchri This is a plan and view of the successful British attack on the wealthy and s...

This map of Tehran features a legend in the borders listing 218 places of interest in the pre-Revolutionary city. The mapmaker’s own premises are i...

Souvenir Map of the Coronation procession May 12th, 1937. This decorated Map is drawn to mark the Royal Procession of Their Majesties Coronation......

Paul Bunyan's pictorial map of the United States depicting some of his deeds and exploits  Stories about Paul Bunyan, the lumberjack of gigantic pr...

This map of the environs of Edinburgh was published a decade before Ainslie’s landmark nine sheet map of Scotland. Originally published in 1778, th...

Robert Morden's county maps, like this one of Cornwall, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an ...

Robert Morden's country maps, like this one of Suffolk, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an ...

Robert Morden's county maps, like this one of Surrey, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an El...

Plan du Port et de la Ville de Nangasaki This is a plan of the port city of Nagaski, one of Japan’s chief points of contact with the outside world ...

Carte de Isles du Japont et la presqu' Isle de Coree avec les costes de la Chine depuis Pekin jusqua Canton . . . Bellin compiled maps like this on...

L’Empire du Chine pour servir a l’Histoire Universelle, d’une Societe de Gens de Lettres Our example of Bellin’s map of China, with text in French ...

Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. The decorative cartouche on this map of the roa...

Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet shows the roads between the Cumbrian...

Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed for John Ogilby’s pioneering road atlas, the ‘Britannia’. This sheet covers the road between High Barnet ...

The “District Railway” Miniature Map of London and Environs (6th edition) District Railway routes are overprinted in red on this road and rail map ...

Map of the River Thames, shewing locks, bridges, adjacent roads & railways, drawn expressly for the Rowing Almanack & Oarsman’s Companion T...

Chorographia Terrae Sanctae in angustiorem formam redacta, et ex variis auctoribus a multibus erroribus expurgata This map of the Holy Land, after ...

This pictorial route map of the Devon General by an anonymous draughtsman for the principal bus operator in south Devon makes playful references to...

This Vietnam War-era city plan of Saigon (modern Ho Chi Minh City) is coloured by district, with a street index at the foot of the map. Useful info...

Moluccae Insulae This map shows the Maluku Islands (or Moluccas), part of the volcanic Indonesian archipelago known to contemporary Europeans as th...

Also published in Stanford’s London Atlas, our example of this map of Africa was separately issued and illustrates the speed and scale of the Scram...

Plan Routiere de la Ville et Fauxbourgs de Paris divisé en douze Maries, revu et corrigé par Hérisson, géographe Our map shows the Paris of Charles...

Théâtre de la Guerre: Carte de l’Empire Ottoman en Europe et en Asie With an inset of Sevastopol, our map covers the region at the outbreak of the ...

Cary’s new map of England and Wales, with part of Scotland. On which are carefully laid down All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads the Course of...

This steamship route map of the western Mediterranean and Northwest Africa shows the routes from Marseille and Bordeaux to Tunisia, Algeria and Mor...

This anthropomorphic map of Ireland was published in “Geographical Fun: Being Humorous Outlines of Various Countries”. Though credited on the title...

The British Empire Exhibition originally ran between April and November 1924, but it was not a financial success, and the decision was taken to reo...

The British Empire Exhibition was, at the time, the largest exhibition staged anywhere in the world; a high profile, postwar statement of confidenc...

This route map advertises passenger, postal and cargo steamship services between Marseille and West Africa. The SS Canada was built for the Fabre L...

Our journey to Hythe begins in London and follows the road through East Peckham and Eltham, reaching Hythe via Maidstone. Thousands of miles of roa...

Our journey to Dover begins in London and follows the road through Deptford, Blackheath, Shooter’s Hill, and Dartford, reaching Dover via Rochester...

Our journey takes us along the road between the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge, via Bedford. Thousands of miles of roads were surveyed fo...

Our journey begins in London and follows the road west through Knightsbridge and Kensington (with Hyde Park to one side), Hammersmith and Turnham G...

This map of the British Isles is aligned with west at the top of the map and north on the right, which makes better use of the available space on t...

This 'carte à figure' map of Italy includes eight costume vignettes and six city views around the edges, with the coats of arms of Corsica and Sard...

This is one of the earliest obtainable views of Venice, derived from a larger woodcut by Dutch artist Erhard Reuwich, which was published in the fi...

This is one of the earliest obtainable views of Florence, derived from a lost engraving by Francesco Rosselli. The woodcuts were created in the wor...

This anthropomorphic map depicting Wales as "Owen Glendowr, in Bardic grandeur" is from 'Geographical Fun: Being Humorous Outlines of Various Count...

Humoristiche satyrische Karte von Kriegsschauplatze This Austrian pictorial map satirising the Crimean War was published in July 1854 in No. 55 the...

The cartouche on this map of the British isles is surmounted by the old Stuart coat of arms and the borders are made up of sixteen regional armoria...

Folding map showing the post roads of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Condition & Materials  4 folding engraved map sheets, which can be joined, e...