A fine and highly decorative map of Lancastershire by the famous Dutch cartographer Blaeu. This English county map with figurative title cartouche is ornated with heraldic family coats of arms and a cherub. The map is very detailed and gives many placenames, smaller villages or settlements. Rivers, ...

Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 40 / 20 x 15½

Beautiful map of Leicestershire, 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 ...

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

Ornamental cartouche. Shows the different hundreds. Scale at lower left

Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 36 / 16½ x 14

Attractive map of Leicestershire. Title in decorative cartouche at lower left. 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 Morden maps are now much harder ...

Dimensions (W x H): 22 x 16.5 / 8½ x 6½

Border coats of arms and vignettes in black and white. Cropped bottom margin.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 26 / 7½ x 10

Ornamental cartouche. Shows the different hundreds. Scale at lower left

Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 36 / 16½ x 14

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): 31.6 x 39 / 12½ x 15½

This county map by Lt. R.K. DAWSON. R.E. is one of several compiled between 1831 and 1832 showing the "Proposed Division of Counties and Boundaries of Boroughs".

Dimensions (W x H): 32.5 x 33.5 / 13 x 13