Beautiful map of Northamptonshire, coloured by the hundreds of the county. Cartouche at top 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 ...

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

Attractive map of Northamptonshire. Title in decorative cartouche at top right. List of some of the major county houses, including Althorp 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 ...

Dimensions (W x H): 22 x 17 / 8½ x 6½

Dimensions (W x H): 48 x 43 / 19 x 17

Ornamental cartouche. Shows the forests and enclosed land. With the hundreds shown in outline colour

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): 37.8 x 32 / 15 x 12½

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