Exceptional example of this decorative map of Cheshire from the distinguished Blaeu publishing house. Large margins. Dutch text on verso. Ornate title cartouche mounted on a plinth supporting four noblemen and a selection of fruit, bottom right. Decorative scale cartouche adorned with peasants and ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38 / 19½ x 15

Beautiful map of Cheshire, coloured by the hundreds of the county. Cartouche at upper left, scales at lower right.

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

Title at top, left of centre. List of hundreds at lower right. 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 than the ...

Dimensions (W x H): 21.5 x 16.5 / 8½ x 6½

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): 38 x 31.6 / 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