A beautiful map with coats of arms of the various Dukes and Earls of Bedford. Inset showing a townplan of Bedford.

Dimensions (W x H): 51.0 x 38.0 / 20 x 15

A beautiful map of the counties with an abundance of cherubs and coats of arms.

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 40 / 19½ x 15½

Beautiful map of Bedfordshire, coloured by the hundreds of the county. Cartouche at upper right, scales at lower right. The 1695 edition of Camden's Britannia was the first edition to contain Robert Morden's beautiful county maps. Morden went to considerable trouble to make them as accurate as ...

Dimensions (W x H): 43 x 36 / 17 x 14

Attractive map of Bedfordshire, divided into hundreds. Decorated cartouche at top right

Dimensions (W x H): 39.5 x 32 / 15½ x 12½

Dimensions (W x H): 39.5 x 32 / 15½ x 12½

Attractive map of Bedfordshire. List of the hundreds at lower right hand corner. Title in decorative cartouche. Morden’s maps for Camden’s Britannia were a landmark in British mapmaking. In response to public demand, the smaller Morden atlas, The Magna Britannia was published in 1702. These small ...

Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 20.5 / 6 x 8

The map is coloured, the surrounding decorations and inset views are uncoloured. Border of gothic decorations covered with ivy, coats of arms, inset views of Woburn Abbey and Dunstable Priory. Ploughman at lower left

Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 27 / 8½ x 10½

This is from a later edition of the Walker Brothers famous beautifully engraved The British Atlas of 1837. ‘An interesting feature is that the maps were usually issued with all railways built marked in red by hand. Often these red railways are more extensive than lines actually engraved on the maps ...

Dimensions (W x H): 31.5 x 38.5 / 12½ x 15

George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.

Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½

A beautiful little map from this early nineteenth-century traveller’s companion, that gave accurate and detailed road information - routes, distances, turnpikes - on all major routes out of London.

Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 29 / 10 x 11½