Blaeu’s Map of Elba
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...
View full detailsThis 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...
View full detailsThis map of Italy is coloured to show the Papal States, Kingdom of Naples, the Venetian and Genoese Republics etc, and is flanked by a chronologica...
View full detailsThis map shows the Swedish Empire, including Finland and Swedish Livonia. It waspublished in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et...
View full detailsNorway was restored as a kingdom in 1661, albeit in union with Denmark. The table at the top left of the map lists ancient kings of Norway, next to...
View full detailsLes 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...
View full detailsLes Royaumes de Portugal et d’Algarve This map of Portugal was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’....
View full detailsThis map of Lisbon was engraved by Josiah Henshall after William Barnard Clarke. It was published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowle...
View full detailsCastellum Gibraltar in Andalusia situm, cum celebri Freto inter Europam et Africam […] This map of Gibraltar shows the Straits, and the prospect at...
View full detailsA 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...
View full detailsPlan 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...
View full detailsMap of the Occupied Areas / Carte des Zones d’Occupation / Karte der Besatzungs-Zonen mit Neuen Postleitgebieten / [in Cyrillic:] Karta Okkupacionn...
View full detailsSketch illustrative of the operations in the vicinity of Bayonne during the winter of 1813. Against the Light Division at the village of Arcangues ...
View full detailsSketch of the action near the Vigia de la Barrosa fought 5th March, 1811 between the allied armies under Sir Thomas Graham, and the French […] Plan...
View full detailsMovements of the two armies after the repulse of Marshall Massena’s attack upon the position of Bussaco This map was lithographed by AR Grive and p...
View full detailsEuropean Dominions of the Ottomans, or Turkey in Europe Greece had become an independent nation after the war of 1821-30, but most other Balkan sta...
View full detailsL’Isle de France, Parisiensis Ager The historic Île-de-France region is to the north of Paris (the modern province has Paris at its centre). The 'A...
View full detailsLe XVII Provinces des Pays Bas divisées en Provinces Unies connues sous le nom de Hollande, et en Pays Bas Catholiques connues sous le nom de Fland...
View full detailsPomeraniae Wandalicae Regionis Typ. [on sheet with] Livoniae Nova descriptio [and] Ducatus Oswieczensis et Zatoriensis Descriptio An early example ...
View full detailsHollandiae Comitatus una cum Ultrajectino Dominio nec non maximis partibus Geldriae Ducatus, per C. Specht This example of Caspar Specht’s map has ...
View full detailsThis map of Vienna was published by the SDUK. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of mak...
View full detailsFaden, William: Le Petit Neptune Français; or, French Coasting Pilot, for the Coast of Flanders, Channel, Bay of Biscay, and Mediterranean. To whic...
View full detailsThis 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...
View full detailsCarta 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...
View full detailsVan 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...
View full detailsThis map of Scandinavia is from Wyld's New General Atlas. James Wyld senior established a highly successful firm of map publishers, which passed to...
View full detailsProspect und Grun-Riss der Keyserl. Rezidenz-Stadt Wien […] This map of Vienna, with a black and white prospect of the city beneath, is from the gr...
View full detailsSchlavoniae, Croatiae, Carniae, Istriae, Bosniae, Finitimarumque Regionum Nova Descriptio Ortelius’ map of the western Balkans drew on the cartogra...
View full detailsNassovia Comitatus The original Mercator Atlas (parts published from 1585 onwards) was not a commercial success; the copper printing plates were bo...
View full detailsBraunsvicensis, et Luneburgensis dvcatvvm vera delineat… Norimberg. Agri, Fidissima descrip… Here we see two maps on one sheet, the Duchy of Brunsw...
View full detailsThis map of Milan shows towns heightened in gold. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 41.5 x 54 cm, original hand-colour, closed tears, min...
View full detailsTransilvania Copper engraving, 33 x 45 cm, modern hand-colour, Latin text on verso. This is the second version of Ortelius’ map of Transylvania, n...
View full detailsMorea olim Peloponnesus Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 34 x 41.5 cm, original hand colour, trivial spotting, French text on verso. Re...
View full detailsHispaniae 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...
View full detailsRomaniae, (quae olim Thracia dicta) Vicinarumque Regionum, uti Bulgariae, Walachiae, Syrfiae, etc. Descriptio This map shows the Lower Danube regio...
View full detailsBulgaria et Romania: divisa in singulares sangiacatus Silistriam, Nicopolin, Bodinum, Sardiam, Bysantium, Kirkeliam et Gallipolin, una cum finitimi...
View full detailsThis map of the Baltic, with an inset of St Petersburg, is from the Royal Atlas of Modern Geography. Condition & Materials Lithographed map, 45...
View full detailsJames Playfair (1738-1819) was Historiographer to the Prince of Wales and Rector of St Andrews. A comprehensively revised edition of his atlas, "el...
View full detailsParte Occidentale/Orientale del Governo Generale d’Orleans This map of the Duchy of Orleans is from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and finely engr...
View full detailsGoverno Generale dell’Isola Di Francia (Île-de-France) This map of Île-de-France is from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work. ...
View full detailsIl 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...
View full detailsIl Ducato di Lorena (Lorraine) This map of Lorraine is from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and finely engraved work. Condition & Materials Cop...
View full detailsLa Savoia divisa nelle sue Principali Provincie da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola [….] This is a map of Savoy from Mercurio Geografico, an unusual and...
View full detailsAeneae Troiani Navigatio, as Virgilii sex priores Aeneidos This of the eastern Mediterranean depicts the wanderings of the legendary Trojan prince ...
View full detailsBlaeu's 'carte à figure' map of Europe features ten costume vignettes and nine city views around the edges with galleys, galleons, sea monsters, be...
View full detailsThis map of Ancient Gaul was engraved on the basis of Caesar’s commentaries on the Gallic Wars, his first hand account of the campaign. The text on...
View full detailsL’Espagne dressée sur la Description qui en a eté faite par Rodrigo Mendez Sylva… par G. de l’Isle/Nova Regni Hispaniae accurata descriptio… Thus ...
View full detailsAlsatia Superior cum Suntgoia et Brisgoia The original Mercator Atlas (parts published from 1585 onwards) was not a commercial success; the copper ...
View full detailsA map of the French Alps, the Dauphiné, incuding Grenoble. The borders are those defined by the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and the cartouche (putti m...
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