World & Celestial

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 ...

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 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 is the first printed edition of a world map in Arabic, which was originally drawn in the 11th century CE to illustrate Mahmud al-Kashgari’s ‘D...

Doppelmayr became professor of mathematics at the Aegidien-Gymnasium in Nuremberg in 1704, and enjoyed a close working relationship with the founde...

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

Engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis' ‘Illustrated Atlas’, this map of the world shows tracks for all three of Cook’s voyages and includes a vig...

The World in Hemispheres Double hemisphere world map, lithograph, 49 x 61 cm, colour printed, blank verso; published in the second trade edition of...

In the Navy… Folding map of the British Empire, 50 x 63.5 cm, printed in colours, laid on linen and folding into stiff card covers, which are a lit...

Chart of the World on Mercator’s Projection, shewing the principal Ocean Steam Routes, the Submarine Telegraph &c. Two lithographic map sheets ...

Globus Coelestris Copper engraving, 9.6 x 13.8 cms, black and white, small marginal stain, Latin text on verso. A map of the celestial hemispheres ...

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

Keep (U)SAFE this winter with our rayon scarf This scarf features a partial pictorial world map (the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa),...

‘Conquer the skies’ world air route map The Mainichi Newspapers Company, publisher of the Daily News, is Japan’s oldest newspaper company. This Wor...

Round the world speed contest The board of this cartographic game is centred on Japan and peppered with national monuments of the world (Big Ben, t...

[Title in Japanese] 1925 Flight from Japan to Europe Winds Around The World This is a commemorative Japanese cartographic board game – it appears t...

British Empire Throughout the World Exhibited in One View. Steel engraving, 44.5 x 53 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso. This is a highly decor...

The League of Nations 2: Electric Boogaloo Folding map of the world, 70 x 96 cm, printed in colours, laid on linen as issued, printed labels on ver...

The world, on Mercator’s projection Steel engraving, 36.5 x 44 cm, engraved by John Dower, original hand colour, numbered in an old hand, blank ver...

The Stars in Six Maps, on the the Gnomonic Projection, revised by the Rev. WR Dawes Six sequentially numbered steel engraved celestial charts, each...

Theoria Planetarum Primariorum Copper engraving, 49.5 x 59 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso. This celestial chart depicts the orbits of the m...

Phaenomena Motuum Irregularium quos Planetae inferiores Venus et Mercurius ad annum Salutis 1720. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 58.5 cm, original hand-c...

Motus in Coelo Spirales Copper engraving, 49.5 x 58.5 cm, original hand colour, small tear at foot of centrefold closed without loss, blank verso. ...

Mappa Totius Mundi adornata juxta Observationes dnn. Academiae Regalis Scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum secundum annotationes recentissimas edita...