Maps

Bradshaw’s Railway Manual, Shareholder’s Guide and Official Directory, 1914; containing the History and Financial Position of every Railway Company...

Un-titled, undated and without a printer, this exceptionally scarce early poster was created for display in stations, but establishing which ones p...

An Account of the Legacies, Gifts, Rents, Fees &c. appertaining to the Church and Poor of the Parish of St, Alphege Greenwich in the County of ...

Mappe A […] Militärgeographische Angaben über England […] 3 Auflage, Abgeschlossen am 31 August 1941. Berlin: Generalstab des Heeres, Abteilung für...

Bradshaw’s Railway Manual, Shareholder’s Guide and Official Directory for 1868. Containing the History and Financial Position of Every Company, Bri...

A Travelling County Atlas: With all the Coach and Rail Roads accurately laid down and coloured and carefully corrected to the present time. London:...

Our example of the map has been annotated in ink to show the early expansion of the railway system, with railways completed and under construction....

If thou art worn and hard beset with sorrows that thou wouldst forget… Go to the woods and hills; no tears dim the sweet look that nature wears. He...

This pictorial map of London employs an unusual form of Turkish fold which makes use of inclined folding lines. The map is a simplified pocket vers...

Faden, William: Le Petit Neptune Français; or, French Coasting Pilot, for the Coast of Flanders, Channel, Bay of Biscay, and Mediterranean. To whic...

This map of the French island of Corsica, ruled by the Genoese in the 17th century and included in the Italian volume of Blaeu’s atlas, is oriented...

MacDonald Gill, brother of Eric, was a successful commercial artist in his own right, and a noted calligrapher who designed the font used on all he...

This iteration of the UERL common design marks George Philip & Son’s first official map for the Underground Group; the firm had designed the fi...

The earliest versions of this map advertised the Franco-British Exhibition which closed at the end of October 1908, marked here as ‘Exhibition’. In...

Our map shows bus, tram and train services operated by the Underground Group and is very similar to the pocket map issued in guidebooks c. 1924.  T...

Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first chief hydrographic engineer of the "Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministère de la M...

Carte de l’entrée de la Tamise, avec les Bancs, Passes, Isles et Costes comprises entre Sandwich et Clay This is a revised version of a chart which...

Carta ilustrada del Muy Noble y Muy Leal Señorio de Vizcaya This map was published to mark the centenary of the Banco de Bilbao, one of the big fou...

Bacon’s large scale plan of the City of London Condition & Materials Folding map, 42.5 x 71 cm, printed in colours, laid on linen as issued, a ...

New Map of London with the recent improvements Condition & Materials Folding map, 51.5 x 77.5 cm, dissected into 32 panels and laid on linen as...

Van den Broecke stresses the significance of this map of Gaul: “in contrast to plate Ort 194 [Gallia vetus, based on Caesar’s commentaries], this m...

Provincia Connachtiae. The Province of Connaught Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, work...

This map of America is from Wyld's New General Atlas. James Wyld senior established a highly successful firm of map publishers, which passed to his...

Port Florence [Kisumu, Kenya] Kisumu, a port on Lake Victoria, was surveyed as a terminus for the Uganda Railway in 1898. The railway was completed...

The East Coast of Scotland with the Isles of Orkney and Shetland This sea chart is from ‘Great Britain’s Coasting Pilot’, the first English Sea Atl...

Comitatus Dorcestria vulgo Anglice Dorsetshire Joannes Janssonius II (1588-1664) married into the Hondius family and, with Henricus Hondius, worked...

Schlavoniae, Croatiae, Carniae, Istriae, Bosniae, Finitimarumque Regionum Nova Descriptio Ortelius’ map of the western Balkans drew on the cartogra...

Braunsvicensis, et Luneburgensis dvcatvvm vera delineat… Norimberg. Agri, Fidissima descrip… Here we see two maps on one sheet, the Duchy of Brunsw...

This map of Milan shows towns heightened in gold. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 41.5 x 54 cm, original hand-colour, closed tears, min...

Transilvania Copper engraving, 33 x 45 cm, modern hand-colour, Latin text on verso. This is the second version of Ortelius’ map of Transylvania, n...

Hispaniae veteris typus Our example of this map of Ancient Spain was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, in the final edition of t...

Romaniae, (quae olim Thracia dicta) Vicinarumque Regionum, uti Bulgariae, Walachiae, Syrfiae, etc. Descriptio This map shows the Lower Danube regio...

Bulgaria et Romania: divisa in singulares sangiacatus Silistriam, Nicopolin, Bodinum, Sardiam, Bysantium, Kirkeliam et Gallipolin, una cum finitimi...

This map of the Baltic, with an inset of St Petersburg, is from the Royal Atlas of Modern Geography. Condition & Materials Lithographed map, 45...

James Playfair (1738-1819) was Historiographer to the Prince of Wales and Rector of St Andrews. A comprehensively revised edition of his atlas, "el...

Parte Occidentale/Orientale del Governo Generale d’Orleans This map of the Duchy of Orleans is from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and finely engr...

Governo Generale dell’Isola Di Francia (Île-de-France) This map of Île-de-France is from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work. ...

Il Ducato di Bar diviso ne suoi tre Baliaggi de Barleduc, di S. Michel, e Bassigny […] e li Territorii della Citta e Vescovati di Metz, Tul e Verdu...

Il Ducato di Lorena (Lorraine) This map of Lorraine is from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work. Condition & Materials Cop...

La Savoia divisa nelle sue Principali Provincie da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola [….] This is a map of Savoy from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and...

Blaeu's 'carte à figure' map of Europe features ten costume vignettes and nine city views around the edges with galleys, galleons, sea monsters, be...

Condition & Materials  Lithographed in red and black on two sheets, each 38.5 x 80 cm; this map of Long Island is printed on thin india paper; ...

Magnae Britaniae et Hiberniae Tabula First published in 1631, this map of the British Isles became the Blaeu firm’s principal one for twenty years....

A Map of the Metropolitan Boroughs within the County of London The date of publication in the lower margin of this map is significant: 25th October...

Mogg’s New Map of the Roads. A New Travelling Map of England, Wales and Scotland […] Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 77 x 63.5 cm, a ro...

John Stow's A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster was originally published in 1598 and 1603, but revised and expanded works under his na...

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 19 x 25 cm, recent hand-colour, blank verso; a plan of Tower Ward published in Noorthouck’s History of ...

John Stow's A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster was originally published in 1598 and 1603, but revised and expanded works under his na...