Maps

This map of Tasmania was engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas'. John Rogers engraved the black and white vignettes including Hobart T...

Particulars, with Plans, Key Plan and Conditions of Sale of the Hoxton Estate The Hoxton estate passed by marriage from the Pitfield to the Sturt f...

Carte de la Normandie, divisée par Generalités et subdivisée par Elections Condition & Materials Folding map of Normandy, 68 x 102.5 cm, origin...

This map of Poland was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. It is coloured according to the third partition of 1795, by which the ...

This is the Tuscan island of Elba, a map newly added to the ‘Atlas Novus’ in 1640. Koeman records that it was first published in the French text ed...

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...

This map of Middlesex was engraved by Toms for Thomas Badeslade’s ‘Chorographia Britanniae’, an attractive pocket atlas which according to Badeslad...

This map shows the Swedish Empire, including Finland and Swedish Livonia. It waspublished in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et...

Estats du Grand Duc de Moscovie ou de l’Empereur de la Russie Blanche This map of Muscovy, or European Russia, was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouve...

Les estats de la Couronne de Pologne This map of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géograp...

Les Royaumes de Portugal et d’Algarve This map of Portugal was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’....

La Judée ou Terre Sainte, divisée en ses douze Tribus This is the second state of Robert de Vaugondy’s Old Testament map of the Holy Land. The map ...

Het Beloofde Landt Canaan door wandelt van onfen Salichmaeker Iesu Christo, nessens syne Apostelen Oriented to the west, this map of the Holy Land ...

This map of Lisbon was engraved by Josiah Henshall after William Barnard Clarke. It was published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowle...

This map of Asia was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. New South Wales appears here on the west coast of ‘New Holland’. James W...

This map of Africa features was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. It features an inset of the Azores and Cape Verde islands. Mu...

[Title page: Atlas Novus, volume IV] This is an architectural title page, engraved for the fourth volume of Blaeu’s Atlas Novus. The central panel ...

Clang, clang, clang went the trolley… Trolleybus services were introduced to London in 1931 and phased out between 1954 and 1962, making this one o...

Collins’ Chart of the Black Sea/Collins’ New Map of the Black Sea, shewing all the fortifications &c on an extended scale. Contemporary with th...

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...

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....