Munster's map of the world is one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th century. This example is from the second woodblock, which includes the engraver David Kandel's initials in lower left-hand corner. A sailing ship and several fierce sea monsters occupy the Oceans. The map Oval ...

Dimensions (W x H): 38.5 x 30.5 / 15 x 12

Early, attractive woodcut map of Spain and Portugal, including a part of north coast of Africa and Majorca island, in beautiful handcolour. From a German edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster. Featuring vessels and sea monsters. In 1540, Munster's edition of Ptolemy appeared, illustrated ...

Dimensions (W x H): 37 x 33 / 14½ x 13

Beautiful colouring, probably 19th century. Short text about the area covered at the top of map. North is to the right of the map, which shows south western Germany, south of the Moselle, and west of the Rhine

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 31 / 14 x 12

Beautifully coloured, probably 19th century. The map covers the area around the river Main, with north to the bottom of the map

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 31 / 14 x 12

Beautifully coloured, probably c19th. The map reaches from the SE Baltic, to Moscow, to Constantinople, and the northern tip of the Adriatic

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 32 / 14 x 12½

A most attractive wood engraving in the copper plate style. The title is in Gothic German.

Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 30.5 / 13.5 x 12

A boldly engraved map of Turkey

Dimensions (W x H): 34.2 x 25.2 / 13½ x 10

A beautiful map in the bold simple style associated with Munster.

Dimensions (W x H): 33.8 x 25.2 / 13½ x 10

An attractive oval map showing the "modern" world after Ortelius, used in the later editions of Munster's Cosmographia. The corners are decorated with florid vine leaves. The title is in Gothic German on the top border. Above and below there are short texts in Gothic German, within strapwork ...

Dimensions (W x H): 37 x 32 / 14½ x 12½

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 31 / 14 x 12

Beautiful colouring, probably 19th century, north is to the bottom of the map. The map covers most of Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, the low countries and part of France. Scale at lower right

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 32 / 14 x 12½

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

George Vivian (1798-1873), draughtsman and painter from London, travelled through Spain and Portugal making sketches of many old buildings and towns. On his return Vivian made the drawings famous publishing a collection of lithographs under the title "Scenery of Portugal & Spain". The work consists ...

Dimensions (W x H): 38 x 13 / 15 x 5

View of the port of Singapore with natives in the foreground.

Dimensions (W x H): 12.0 x 11.0 / 4½ x 4½

Dimensions (W x H): 12.0 x 11.0 / 4½ x 4½

A splendid and detailed map of Asia in stereographic projection, North Pole at top centre with large ornamental cartouche at lower left, secondary cartouche with seven scales at top right

Dimensions (W x H): 55 x 48 / 21½ x 19