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District within ¼ mile radius [of] Turnpike Lane Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War,...

This double hemisphere world map was published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith...

The District Railway Guide to the Greater Britain Exhibition, the Gigantic Wheel, &c, at Earls Court The Greater Britain Exhibition was one of ...

Plan of St Marylebone 1900 Detailed map of the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone as created by the London Government Act 1899, coloured to show...

Late Theatre Services by Tramway is one of at least three posters designed by Haythorne for LCC Trams, the others being ‘Dull days made bright in t...

Map with lines showing the boundary for free collection and delivery of parcels and passengers’ luggage The main map shows central London, includin...

Do you prefer your flatfish with eyes to the right, or to the left? This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and ...

The fish with a face only a mother could love This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a ...

Meunière your skate wings, or get someone else to do it for you This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and Geor...

Why is it proverbially assumed to be very easy to run a whelk stall? They look like hard work to me This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atla...

For a rainy day supper, put crab in your macaroni cheese. Trust me, you’ll love it This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Se...

They’re bonnie fish and halesome farin’ This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series...

Try Scotch Woodock, per The Ritz London Book of Afternoon Tea. For a pared-down version, simply spread hot buttered toast with Gentleman’s Relish a...

Waiter, bring me shad roe... This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series of 50 lavi...

Pilchards are either sardines, herring, or neither. I think it depends where you (and they) are from. This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial At...

The Piscatorial Atlas was the product of a decade or more of reports and correspondence with British fishermen This map was published in the ‘Pisca...

This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series of 50 lavishly chromolithographed chart...

See the east coast Fishwife with her creel This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a ser...

O Oysters, come and walk with us! This map was published in the ‘Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and George’s Channels’, a series of 50...

London Restored or Sir John Evelyn’s Plan for Rebuilding the Antient Metropolis after the Fire in 1666 Evelyn, Wren and Hooke were among the archit...

Thibet, Mongolia, and Mandchouria This map was engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’; with vignettes including Leh in Ladakh, a stret...

Voyage en ballon dirigeable a travers l’Europe No rule sheet, but fairly self explanatory: the board is a simplified map of Europe with vignettes o...

L’Italie qui comprend les Etats de Piémont, les Duchés de Milan, de Parme, de Modene, de Mantoue etc., les Républiques de Genes, de Venise, de Luqu...

Apologiae Duae et Diologus cum Tryphone Judeo. Cum notis & emandationibus Styani Thirlbii. Londini [London]: Impensis Richardi Sare [...] 1722....

This is a late issue of Blaeu’s map of Guiana, with full-body colour typical of the later seventeenth-century. Seventeenth and eighteenth century m...

A member of a relatively impecunious Franco-Irish gentry family, Crommelin travelled widely and supported herself by writing travel accounts and 42...

Vorst, Johannes: De Latinitate merito suspecta, deque vitiis sermonis Latini, quae vulgo fere non animadvertuntur, liber, quem alter, De Latinitate...

Freind, John: Opera omnia medica. Editio altera, Londinensi multo correctior et accuratior. Parisiis [Paris], apud Guillelmum Cavelier […] 1735 Rep...

Carte de la Coste d’Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse. A map of the Arabian peninsula. Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first ch...

Limestreet Ward divided into Parishes according to a late Survey Possibly engraved by Thomas Bowen and first published in the London Magazine, this...

Cheap Ward with its Divisions into Parishes according to a New Survey This ward plan of Cheap was published in the greatly expanded second edition ...

The Parish of St Johns Wapping; The Parish of St. Paul Shadwell This detailed ward plan of Wapping and Shadwell includes Execution Dock, where sent...

Town Plan of Wien (Vienna) – Second Edition –- Sheet 5 (Central) The Prater Park with its famous giant wheel is a fraction to the east of the city ...

Les Indes Orientales This is Santini’s edition of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the Indian subcontinent and mainland southeast Asia. Venetian map-mak...

Burma – Gulf of Mataban – Rangoon River and Approaches This chart covers the mouth of the river between Rangoon (Yangon) and the sea. It shows vill...

District within ¼ mile radius [of] Monument Stanford’s was a firm of map publishers as well as map retailers until after the Second World War, with...

This map of Canterbury is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed's count...

This map of Rochester is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed's county...

This map of Lancaster is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed's county...

This map of Gloucester is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia. Nearly all of the plans are based on the small inset plans shown on John Speed's count...

Anthony Wood, who sometimes chose to style himself “à Wood”, is described as “a very strong lusty man, of uncouth manners and appearance ... not av...

Arrian: [Greek title: Arrianou techne taktike, ektaxis kat Alanon... ] Ars Tactica, Acies Contra Alanos, Periplus Maris Erythraei, Liber De Venatio...

The first part of this work details the construction of semi-permanent bridges at Arnhem, Xanten, Rees and Spyck. The second part covers the equall...

The text of this comprehensively illustrated edition follows the sixth edition (1811) revised by Boswell’s son. It is accompanied by the notes of v...

Herodotus and Thucydides: [Greek title] Libri Novum… Georgii Gemisti, qui et Pletho de iis quae post pugnam ad Mantineam gesta sunt libri II. […] B...

Longus: [Greek title: Longou Poimenikon, ton kata Daphnin kai Chloen, biblia tettara] Daphnide et Chloe, Libri Quatuor. Petrus Moll Snecanus J. V. ...

John Thomson's maps, like this one of the Channel, are characteristic of the Edinburgh school of cartography. It flourished at the beginning of the...

This educational handkerchief (why not?) is in the same format as the series of thirteen 'mouchoirs militaire d'instructions' patented by the comma...