Beautiful map of Hertfordshire, coloured by the hundreds of the county. Cartouche at top left, scales at lower left. 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 ...
This beautiful map is coloured, the surrounding decorations and inset views are uncoloured. Decorated with gothic border, six coats of arms and inset views of St. Albans Abbey and Cashiobury
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 ...
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.