Maps

Asia veteribus nota. L’Asie ancienne, dirigée par M. Philippe This is a map of Asia as it was understood in the Greco-Roman world in classical anti...

This map of West Canada was engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’. The map also includes black and white vignettes of Kingston, Ontar...

South America – British Guiana – Georgetown and mouths of Demerara and Essequibo Rivers This British chart of Georgetown shows soundings etc, with ...

This chart of Dublin bay shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief and settlements (including eastern Dublin), and inset coastal profiles...

This British chart of Durban port was engraved by John and Charles Walker. It shows soundings etc, interior detail of relief and settlements includ...

Underground Map of Central London/A Guide to Underground Travel, Through Service Sth. Harrow and the West End Leboff and Demuth draw attention to t...

Underground Railways of London/What to see and how to travel: Map of the Electric Railways of London The continuation of lines in the margins is no...

Chart of the World on Mercator’s Projection, shewing the principal Ocean Steam Routes, the Submarine Telegraph &c This world map was published ...

The Falkland Islands, surveyed by Captains Robert Fitz Roy R.N., William Robinson R.N. and Bartholomew James Sulivan R.N. This map of the Falkland...

Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked on a revised edition of the Mercator-Hondius a...

A correct sketch of the northern seat of war, exhibiting the whole of the country, wherein the British troops under the command of His Royal Highne...

Plan du Siege de Namur avec les nouveaux travaux que sa Majesté y a fait adjouter qui sont marquees à la lettre A. Cette place fut reduitte à l’obb...

Carte générale des découvertes de l’Amiral de Fonte, representant le grande probabilité d’un Passage au Nord Ouest Maps depicting the purported voy...

Sinus Gangeticus; vulgo Golfo de Bengale nova descriptio This is a map of the Bay of Bengal with north oriented to the right. Petrus Schenk and Ger...

Karte von dem groessten theil des landes Jemen, Imame, Kaukeban &. &. […] This map of Yemen and the Red Sea follows the detailed maps by Ge...

This map of Algeria features an inset of the Bay of Algiers. Ottoman Algeria was a hub of privateering and the Mediterranean slave trade. Well know...

Plan Des Villes De Londres et de Westminster et leurs Faubourgs avec le Bourg de Southwark This is the first version of the map, before the date wa...

Map of the Occupied Areas / Carte des Zones d’Occupation / Karte der Besatzungs-Zonen mit Neuen Postleitgebieten / [in Cyrillic:] Karta Okkupacionn...

La VIII Table d’Angleterre/Anglesey, Wight, Vectis olim, Garnsey, Iarsay Islands around the British coast were often grouped, in various combinatio...

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...

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...

Map of the County of Middlesex from an Actual Survey The Greenwood brothers were land-surveyors from Yorkshire who compiled one of the last indepen...

Map of the County of Surrey from an Actual Survey The Greenwood brothers were land-surveyors from Yorkshire who compiled one of the last independen...

This map of Gloucester was engraved by Johannes Kip for 'The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire'. It is one of the earliest views of the cit...

Cardigan Shyre described with the due forme of the Shiretown as it was surveyed by JS. Anno 1610 John Speed (1552-1629) is unquestionably the most ...

This map of Monmouthshire and the Severn Estuary is from ‘the rarest edition of Blaeu’s Large Atlases’: only ten of the proposed eleven volumes wer...

La Parte Orientale della Irlanda che comprende le Provincie di Ulster e Leinster This is the eastern sheet of Cassini’s pleasing and unusual two sh...

This map of the northern part of Scotland is from the Hondius-Janssonius map publishing business, which traced its roots back to Gerardus Mercator....

Regionis, quae est circa Londinum […] This map follows Thomas Bowles’ ‘A New and Correct Map of Thirty Miles round London’ published c. 1740. The f...

England, with all the railways… This edition of Lizars’ railway map was published c. 1845, featuring lines such as the Maryport & Carlisle Rail...

Sketch illustrative of the operations in the vicinity of Bayonne during the winter of 1813. Against the Light Division at the village of Arcangues ...

Sketch of the action near the Vigia de la Barrosa fought 5th March, 1811 between the allied armies under Sir Thomas Graham, and the French […] Plan...

Movements of the two armies after the repulse of Marshall Massena’s attack upon the position of Bussaco This map was lithographed by AR Grive and p...

This District Railway map of Greater London shows the approximate extent from Epsom to Enfield and from Windsor to Grays, with inset of the Henley ...

Map of London shewing Goods, Coal and Passenger Stations, Depots and Receiving Offices of the London & North Eastern Railway, also the Ordinary...

Cruchley’s Improved Geographical Companion throughout England & Wales including part of Scotland In this map of England and Wales, we have an i...

Map of the North West Circuit of the Principality of Wales, comprising the Counties of Anglesey, Caernarfon & Merioneth, from an Actual Survey…...

A Map of the Principal Rivers shewing their courses, countries and comparative lengths The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founde...

This map covers the southern part of the subcontinent (Mumbai is near the upper border), and includes the northern part of Sri Lanka. Pink denotes ...

This map of the Black Sea has been updated to show the 300 miles of submarine telegraph cable laid between Varna and Balaclava by Robert Stirling N...

Le XVII Provinces des Pays Bas divisées en Provinces Unies connues sous le nom de Hollande, et en Pays Bas Catholiques connues sous le nom de Fland...

Pomeraniae Wandalicae Regionis Typ. [on sheet with] Livoniae Nova descriptio [and] Ducatus Oswieczensis et Zatoriensis Descriptio An early example ...

A Map of the County Palatine of Lancaster Divided into Hundreds and Parishes from an accurate Survey made in the years 1828 and 1829, For Hennet’s ...

Hollandiae Comitatus una cum Ultrajectino Dominio nec non maximis partibus Geldriae Ducatus, per C. Specht This example of Caspar Specht’s map has ...

Bradshaw’s map of the railways of England & Wales with part of Scotland, reduced from the highly accurate Ordnance Survey, presented to the sub...

The focus of this map is Toyama, a significant sea-port in what was once Etchu province on Honshu. On stylistic grounds the map appears to date fro...

South Pacific Ocean – Society Islands – Tahiti and Moorea (Otaheite and Eimeo) This chart was derived from French surveys of 1869 and 1885. The fir...

This map of Vienna was published by the SDUK. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of mak...