Spectacular map showing the Saxon Kingdoms of Britain. The map is based upon Blaeu's map of 1645, but can be readily distinguished from Blaeu's map by the addition of 3 compass roses, rhumb lines and sailing ships. The two sets of vignettes on either side of the map were first incorporated by Speed ...

Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 42 / 21 x 16½

A beautiful map of the British Isles. North is to the right. Title in strapwork cartouche at top right, text in Latin, in its own cartouche at lower left, scale and royal arms. Ships at sea. It is difficult to put an exact date on the map, because of the complex publishing history of Ortelius’ ...

Dimensions (W x H): 34.5 x 50.5 / 13½ x 20

Attractive map of the British Isles by the famed Swiss engraver Merian. Like many of Merian’s maps, it was based on a Blaeu map.It is about two thirds of the size of the Bleau, has the inset of the Orkneys at top right, but Merian has added his own attractive title cartouche, the royal coat of arms ...

Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 27 / 14 x 10½

Attractive map of the British Isles by the famous French Marine Cartographer Bellin. The meridians of Paris, London and the Lizard are shown on the map. Detailed scales of the degrees and leagues stretch the length of the side borders. Decorated title at top right.

Dimensions (W x H): 54.5 x 89 / 21½ x 35

An interesting view of Great Britain from a commercial and industrial perspective. There is statistical information about British Isles and various regions on the top and bottom of the map with 14 attractive vignettes depicting industry native to each area as well as its architecture and landscape. ...

Dimensions (W x H): 59.5 x 85 / 23½ x 33½

Mercator’s map of Great Britain, based on Ptolemy’s Geographia. This map, with its unaltered strapwork cartouche, is from an earlier edition of the atlas. The Ptolemaic maps were based in the work of Claude Ptolemy (AD 87 - 150) a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer, living in ...

Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 34 / 16 x 13½

A highly informative and decorative map. Top right corner has the coats of arms of Great Britain and England and top left those of Scotland and Ireland. There are tables listing counties, town and overseas lands with a mappe monde to locate them

Dimensions (W x H): 61.7 x 46.5 / 24½ x 18½

Beautiful map of Roman Britain. Cartouche at upper 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 possible - they were the first county maps to include roads.

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

Handsome map of the British Isles, divided into regions - ‘Sussex’ includes Surrey, the whole of the Midlands is named ‘Mercia’, ‘Northumberland’ covers the whole of northern England. Title at top right, with vignette cartouche showing a horseman dismounting outside a country inn.

Dimensions (W x H): 57.5 x 47 / 22½ x 18½

A detailed map of the Brritish Isles with decorative cartouche depicting the tools of map-making with flags and Royal Coat of Arms. There is an inset entitled “ Supplement pour les Isles Orcades, Shetland and Fero”

Dimensions (W x H): 58.7 x 47.7 / 23 x 19

An unusual map of Great Britain showing the major roads and divided into the old provinces

Dimensions (W x H): 57.7 x 47.2 / 22½ x 18½

Attractive map of the British Isles, with an inset at top right of the Orkneys, Shetlands and Faroe Islands. Title cartouche at top left, decorated with Royal Arms, banners, and other regal objects.

A detailed map of the British Isles with roads taken from Thomas Kitchin’s map. There is an inset showing the Orkney and Shetland Isles

Dimensions (W x H): 71.8 x 53.6 / 28½ x 21

An interesting, and detailed map of Britain showing the railways of England, Wales, the east coast of Scotland, and the east coast of Ireland. As the title suggests the steamboat routes to other parts of the UK and continent are are shown with distances

Dimensions (W x H): 36.5 x 54.5 / 14½ x 21½

Clear and accurate map of the British Isles in the early nineteenth century, coloured by county. Inset map of the Shetland Islands at upper left. Three scales at lower left, title at top right. John Cary was considered 'the most representative, able and prolific of English cartographers'. Tooley ...

Dimensions (W x H): 51.5 x 46 / 20½ x 18

A detailed map of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales also showing the coastline of France and Holland and the eastern coastline of Ireland. There is an inset entitled “ The Orkney and Shetland Isles”

Dimensions (W x H): 56.3 x 42.3 / 22 x 16½

Attractive map of Great Britain from the Cloppenburgh editon of the Atlas Minor. French text on verso. Title cartouche at top left. This edition of the map has a very attractive shot-silk effect sea, the Jansson edition of the same map leaves the sea blank.

Dimensions (W x H): 25.5 x 18.5 / 10 x 7½

Interesting plate with two maps side by side - 1. Scotland, 2. England and Wales, with a list of the principal battles in England, two coats of arms, of England and Scotland. The chart is the left half of a larger chart, but with the maps of England and Scotland at the centre, makes an attractive ...

Dimensions (W x H): 44 x 37.5 / 17½ x 15

Handsome map of the British Isles with an inset of the Orkneys and Shetlands at top left. The New General Atlas was one of the most accurate and best produced atlases of the day. John Thomson’s ‘County Atlas of Scotland’ is generally considered the finest of its kind.

Dimensions (W x H): 49.5 x 59.5 / 19½ x 23½

Attractive map of the British Isles. Ireland is divided into four provinces, England into six, and Scotland into two parts. Decorated cartouche at top left, with vignette of Neptune and chariot, and London in the background. Texts in French.

Dimensions (W x H): 30.5 x 23 / 12 x 9

A clear map of the British Isles, with an inset of the Orkney and Shetland Isles at top left. Title at upper right.

Dimensions (W x H): 55.8 x 41.9 / 22 x 16½

Detailed map of the British Isles with ‘Meridien de Londres’ as a dotted line the Paris Meridien is a solid line. Ornamental title cartouche. National coats of arms and four scales - English, Irish, Scottish miles and French leagues.

Dimensions (W x H): 40 x 26 / 15½ x 10

Attractive map of the British Isles, with a large title cartouche at top left. Maps by Sanson in original colour are rare. Nicolas Sanson was founder of the French school of mapmakers, at a time when the leadership in European cartography passed from the Low Countries to France. This map was ...

Dimensions (W x H): 18 x 23 / 7 x 9

In the mid-eighteenth century, French mapmaking was at its peak. Brion de la Tour was one of its most prolific cartographers. This beautiful decorated little map, elegantly surrounded by an ornate engraved uncoloured frame, is a fine example of the period.

Dimensions (W x H): 30 x 28 / 12 x 11

Detailed map of the British Isles with ‘Meridien de Londres’ as a dotted line the Paris Meridien is a solid line. Ornamental title cartouche. National coats of arms and four scales - English, Irish, Scottish miles and French leagues.

Dimensions (W x H): 40 x 26 / 15½ x 10

Splendid map of the British Isles, with large pictorial cartouche, showing travellers arriving at an Inn on a country road

Dimensions (W x H): 58 x 48 / 23 x 19

A detailed map of the British Isles. The cartouche depicts Brittania in front of a distant view of London.

Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 34 / 16½ x 13½

A delightful map of the British Isles with small insets of the Hebrides ans Shetland Islands. A triangular inset in the right-hand corner has a table of distances between the cities

Dimensions (W x H): 46.6 x 35.8 / 18½ x 14

Attractive map of England and Ireland with decorative cartouche, showing title on stone tablet, with coats of arms on either side, fishing nets and fish below. Antonio Zatta was one of the leading cartographers and publishers of the time, and his Atlante Novissimo was one of the most beautifully ...

Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 33 / 16½ x 13

Simple attractive map of the British Isles, divided into regions. Shows sandbanks in North Sea Title at top left, scales at lower right.

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 27 / 13 x 10½

Interesting map of British Isles in ancient times. Inset map of the Orkneys and Shetland Isles at top left. Title on banner at upper right.

Dimensions (W x H): 46.5 x 31.5 / 18½ x 12½

Attractive map of the British Isles with an inset at top left of the Orkney, Shetland and Faroe Islands. Compass rose at sea. The map was published in the 1720 edition of The Magna Britannia, added to the county maps of Robert Morden.

Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 17 / 10 x 6½

Attractive map of British Isles. Decorated title cartouche at top left, inset picture at top right of a thatched British building. The map was published in the 1720 edition of The Magna Britannia, added to the county maps of Robert Morden.

Dimensions (W x H): 26.5 x 18 / 10½ x 7

A detailed map of the British Isles, with an inset of the isles of Shetland and Orkney.

Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 51 / 16 x 20

Detailed map of the British Isles with insets of The Orkney, Shetland and Channel Islands.

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 34 / 19½ x 13½

Map of Great Britain and Ireland, with lists of the Kings of Scotland on left margin, and the kings of England on the right margin. Title cartouche at lower left. In the early eighteenth century, French cartography overtook the Dutch in terms of accuracy and design. Chiquet’s delightful Nouveau et ...

Dimensions (W x H): 22 x 16 / 8½ x 6½

Map of Roman British Isles, showing the distribution of tribes and Roman towns.

Dimensions (W x H): 30 x 43 / 12 x 17

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

Thomas Brown was an Edinburgh Bookseller and Publisher of the late 18th and early 19th century. The maps from his General Atlas are on the cusp between the decorative maps of the eighteenth century and the more accurate maps of the nineteenth century

Dimensions (W x H): 28 x 35 / 11 x 14

Borders in black and white. Right margin cropped

Dimensions (W x H): 20.5 x 25 / 8 x 10