Maps

Map of the Grand Junction Railway and its Adjacent Country. [Copied by permission from the Company’s official map.] Shewing all the the stations on...

This map of Liddesdale, in the Scottish borders, is from Golden Age Dutch cartographer Blaeu’s Scottish atlas. First published in 1654, the atlas w...

A New Geographical Pastime: Walker’s Tour through England and Wales Most games of this nature were educational, and in this case players learn as t...

Historical pastime, or, a new game of the history of England from the Conquest to the accession of George the Third This popular early nineteenth-c...

G. Bradshaw’s Map of Canals, Navigable Rivers, Rail Roads etc. in the Southern Counties of England. From actual survey shewing heights of the ponds...

This bird’s-eye view of the Suez Canal was published as a ‘Special Supplement’ of The Graphic (a weekly illustrated newspaper), issued on 2 Septemb...

Nieuwe Kaarte van der XVII Nederlandsche Provincien: waar in aangewezen worden de landen door den Koning van Vrankryk geconquesteerd als mede die v...

This is a collection of 61 intelligence handbooks, 1943-1945, covering enemy and occupied countries and compiled by the Foreign Office and Ministry...

This pictorial map of Liverpool is folded into a souvenir record-sleeve style pack which comprises: ‘Nothing to get hung up about’, a 30 page shor...

A New Geographical Pastime The elder John Wallis (c. 1745-1818) recovered from bankruptcy to become one of the major publishers of children’s games...

[Map of] Afghanistan, political, phisical [sic], roads and distances, important historical sites According to the online resource Encyclopaedia Ira...

Blaeu and the rival Golden Age Dutch cartographic publishing house of Janssonius raced to bring out atlases of the British Isles in the 1630s and e...

Mary Sims and Mary Camidge, both signing as 'of Maps and Guides, Ltd', each produced posters for British Railways (Eastern Region) in 1960. They th...

Map of the Great Western Railway and Connections This map illustrates how the Great Western Railway connected resources such as coal fields, china ...

Carte de Royaume d’Angleterre dressé par Hérisson, elêve du Sr. Bonne, ancien Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine Eustache Hérisson (1759-1816) was ...

The 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 (ill...

This pictorial map grouping the three counties northeast of London was published by British Railways (Eastern Region) to promote leisure travel jus...

Stanford’s New Map of the County of London on the Scale of Four Inches to One Mile This new edition of Stanford’s map was advertised in a variety o...

Les Vignobles de France – Vins de Champagne Government and national wine trade bodies sponsored Louis Larmat’s regional wine atlases in the 1940s a...

[Title-page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas, Tome second Through groups of allegorical figures the atlas makers ‘sought to promise the...

This plan of Douai (Duacum) in northern France was published in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the...

This map of Mons in Belgium is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-century, pri...

This plan of Namur in Belgium is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-century, p...

This map of Limbourg or Limburg is from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth-century,...

This is the general title page for Blaeu’s town books of the Netherlands.  The first volume features plans and views of the towns of the Northern p...

This is an unusually nice example of the second, October issue of this geographic style map. It is often browned: in the months after the Armistice...

Beck’s diagram is possibly one of the most innovative and influential designs of the 20th century. First published in 1933, Beck remained directly ...

This map of Persia, Afghanistan and Balochistan is part of the Authentic Imperial Maps series published by the London Geographical Institute. Condi...

Founded in 1894, on the cusp of the Anglo-German naval arms race, the Navy League was a pressure group seeking to influence politicians and popular...

This map of Tasmania was engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas'. John Rogers engraved the black and white vignettes including Hobart T...

Particulars, with Plans, Key Plan and Conditions of Sale of the Hoxton Estate The Hoxton estate passed by marriage from the Pitfield to the Sturt f...

Carte de la Normandie, divisée par Generalités et subdivisée par Elections Condition & Materials Folding map of Normandy, 68 x 102.5 cm, origin...

This is a good example of the second ever edition of Harry Beck's famous diagram to appear in poster form; dated August 1933 it was the first to be...

This map of Poland was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. It is coloured according to the third partition of 1795, by which the ...

L’Amerique Meridionale qui fait l’autre partie des Indes Occidentales This map of South America features figures in indigenous costume and a vignet...

This is an interesting example of the London underground map produced under difficult wartime conditions. A number of variants of this map were iss...

This map of Middlesex was engraved by Toms for Thomas Badeslade’s ‘Chorographia Britanniae’, an attractive pocket atlas which according to Badeslad...

This 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...

This map shows the Swedish Empire, including Finland and Swedish Livonia. It waspublished in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et...

Norway 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...

Estats du Grand Duc de Moscovie ou de l’Empereur de la Russie Blanche This map of Muscovy, or European Russia, was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouve...

Les 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...

Les Royaumes de Portugal et d’Algarve This map of Portugal was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’....

La Judée ou Terre Sainte, divisée en ses douze Tribus This is the second state of Robert de Vaugondy’s Old Testament map of the Holy Land. The map ...

This map of Lisbon was engraved by Josiah Henshall after William Barnard Clarke. It was published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowle...

This map of Asia was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. New South Wales appears here on the west coast of ‘New Holland’. James W...

This map of Africa features was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. It features an inset of the Azores and Cape Verde islands. Mu...

[Title page: Atlas Novus, volume IV] This is an architectural title page, engraved for the fourth volume of Blaeu’s Atlas Novus. The central panel ...