Handsome map of Cambridgeshire, with title cartouche at upper left, shields of seventeen university colleges, and of eight nobleman, two blank shields, Royal arms at lower left of title.
Beautiful map of Cambridgeshire, coloured by the hundreds of the county. Cartouche at upper right, 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 ...
Attractive map of Cambridgeshire. List of the hundreds 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 to find ...
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 ...
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".
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.