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Cassell's 'immense map' of London was prepared for the Weekly Dispatch and published in nine parts between January 1861 and April 1862. It reappear...

This detailed new map was prepared for the second edition of Stanford’s ‘London Atlas’, shortly after the creation of the Durand Line (formalising ...

This map of Natal was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis' popular ‘Illustrated Atlas’; it includes vignettes of Port Natal engraved by William...

Circular folding map of the environs of Paris, 79 x 79 cm, engraved by Barrière (Pére) after Bariolle, black and white, dissected into 24 sheets an...

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

This map of Central America was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis' popular ‘Illustrated Atlas’; it includes black and white vignettes of Beli...

This map of Nova Scotia was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis' popular ‘Illustrated Atlas’; it includes black and white vignettes of Halifax,...

Mexico achieved independence in 1821, and became a republic in 1823. Between 1823 and 1825 Stephen Austin successfully renegotiated with the new go...

Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 30 x 38 cm, engraved by Edward Jones, original hand colour, blank verso. Published in ‘Smith’s new gen...

Extensive areas of this map of Africa are left entirely blank, but there is also a considerable amount of speculative material. The legendary Mount...

This world map tracks for all three of Cook’s voyages, and was published in ‘Smith’s new general atlas’, which was issued in various editions from ...

This map of Central Asia was published in ‘Smith’s new general atlas’, issued in various editions from 1808 onwards. The engraver, Benjamin Smith, ...

Cutting A Fine Figure Speed’s 'carte à figure' of Italy features eight costume vignettes and six city views around the edges, with the coats of arm...

The map of the Eastern Hemisphere tracks the overland route to India (subject of a separate map in the series) and on to Australia. The mapmaker Jo...

The Railway Clearing House allocated revenue on occasions where one company’s train ran over another’s track, and promoted standardisation (of ever...

The Railway Clearing House allocated revenue on occasions where one company’s train ran over another’s track, and promoted standardisation (of ever...

The warlike putti on the cartouche of this map of what is now Latvia and Estonia, with parts of Lithuania, emphasise the contested nature of the re...

This map of the Heptarchy, or seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, was engraved by William Hole for the first illustrated edition of William Camden's Britan...

This is Blaeu’s map, after Hondius and Janssonius, of the ‘inundated areas’ of Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire ...

This map of England and Wales was prepared (‘arranged’) by noted geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, shortly after he had first identified the ...

The map shows global air-routes, including those over the Artic Circle, with distances. Although the focus of the map is civil aviation, and its po...

This map of Africa was regularly updated to reflect the advances (and uncertainties) of European exploration, but this particular example appears t...

This wartime example of the NYC Subway map is a ‘special’, commissioned to show the location of the New York branch of the Union Jack Club, and dis...

Robert Morden's maps were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition of William Camden's Britannia, first published in 1695 and reprinted in 1722 and ...

This is one of the most detailed mid-19th Century American atlas maps of Cuba and the region, set within Colton’s distinctive style of border, by o...

This map was first published by Stanford’s in 1918, and remained topical enough to be reprinted for British periodical ‘The Sphere’ the following y...

Frank de Vine Hunt was a member of Churchill’s Map Room staff in the Upper War Room at the Admiralty during the war. In June 1947, while Churchill ...

This map of London was published in the Report of the Royal Commission on London Traffic, a detailed eight volume investigation of the nature, admi...

The 'Revoltas da Armada', the Brazilian naval mutinies of 1893-1894, were linked with the Federalist Rebellion against the recently-formed First Br...

The Empire of Morocco, since 1912, had been divided between the Spanish and French. Our map dates to the period of the Rif War, 1921-26, in which a...

In London Once I Lost My Way This map of London is flanked by the giants Gog and Magog, legendary guardians of the city, and with other familiar im...

This map of South Africa was published by The Times during the Second Anglo-Boer War, for the benefit of members of the British public following th...

A larger version of this pictorial propaganda map was published by Moscow-based Novoe Krivoe Zerkalo, New Distorting (or ‘Crooked’) Mirror magazine...

Publish or Perish Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles ...

William Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England, Britannia. As he continued to revise and expand th...

Cartography & Mythology This map of Asia features some interesting cartographic conjectures, including the entirely mythical ‘Company’s Land’ a...

Welsh Pride Bowen dutifully tracks Columbus’s course across the Atlantic in this map, but may have been swayed by his own Welsh roots to include a ...

Parts Undiscovered At the time of this map's publication in John Harris' ‘Navigantium’, a mid 18th century English compilation of ‘above 600 of the...

This map of Italy was published in Nicholas Tindal's continuation of Rapin de Thoyras's "History of England"; many of the maps illustrating the wor...

Construction on the Manchester Shipping Canal began in 1887, and the canal opened in 1894. It was an engineering marvel, the largest river navigati...

Cassell’s 'immense map' of London was prepared for the Weekly Dispatch and published in nine parts between January 1861 and April 1862. It reappear...

Commissioned by Time and Tide magazine, a British literary and political review, this is among the scarcest of Gill’s pictorial maps. Although the ...