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This exceptionally rare map of Lancashire was created by Joan Blaeu, working from his renowned mapmaking workshop in Amsterdam, and was originally published in his monumental "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive...

By 1844 Lancashire had already remade itself twice over. The county that John Speed and Willem Blaeu had mapped in earlier centuries as a landscape of market towns and grazing...

First published in 1611 by the English cartographer John Speed and engraved in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius, this map formed part of Speed's landmark atlas, The Theatre of the Empire...

This richly detailed map of Lincolnshire was created by John Speed, the celebrated Elizabethan and Jacobean cartographer, and engraved by the Dutch master engraver Jodocus Hondius. It was first published...

Few reference works of the early Victorian period were as ambitious as Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, a county-by-county gazetteer that ran through seven editions between 1831 and 1848,...

By the middle of the nineteenth century, Liverpool had grown into the busiest port outside London, a position confirmed in the same year, 1851, that the publisher John Tallis issued...

Published in 1934 by the illustrator G.H. Parry, this pictorial map of Liverpool is a world away from a conventional street plan. Parry crammed the page with lively drawn-out buildings,...

This print reproduces William Faden's 1790 map of London and its environs, a striking large-format survey that extended some twenty-five miles out from the capital in every direction. At its...

By 1822, London was expanding faster than any city in Europe, swallowing villages and market gardens on every side of the old City and Westminster. It was this restless growth...

George Woolworth Colton ran one of the most successful American map-publishing houses of the nineteenth century, and his firm's general atlases were a staple of libraries, schools, and businesses across...

This is a stunning map of London from 1572, created by Georg Braun, one of the most celebrated cartographers of the Renaissance. This hand-coloured city plan captures London during the...

This is a rare and exceptional map of London from 1690, created by the Dutch cartographer Joannes de Ram. By this date, London had risen from the ashes of the...

This is sheet A2 of the celebrated twenty-four sheet survey of London produced by surveyor and cartographer John Rocque, engraved by John Pine and published in 1746. It was the...

By the 1740s the fields north of Soho were fast disappearing under new streets and squares, and sheet B1 of Rocque's survey is where that transformation shows most clearly. Positioned...

This sheet forms part of the celebrated twenty-four sheet survey of London produced by surveyor John Rocque and engraved by John Pine, published in 1746 and long regarded as the...

This sheet is part of what is widely regarded as the greatest large-scale map of London ever produced: the twenty-four sheet survey put together by surveyor and cartographer John Rocque...

This sheet forms part of the celebrated twenty-four sheet survey of London produced by surveyor John Rocque and engraved by John Pine, published in 1746 and long regarded as the...

John Rocque's great survey of London ran to twenty-four separate sheets, together forming one of the largest and most detailed city plans produced anywhere in the eighteenth century, and Sheet...

Between 1741 and 1745, the surveyor John Rocque and the engraver John Pine carried out one of the most ambitious mapping projects of the eighteenth century: a plan of London,...

Sheet D2 of John Rocque's 1746 survey of London sits along the working edge of the City, where the built-up streets north of the Thames give way to wharves, stairs...

North of the old City wall, where Moor Fields once lay open and marshy before draining and building over the site, sheet E1 of John Rocque's 1746 survey of London...

Sheet E2 of Rocque's great survey sits directly over the ancient crossing point of the Thames, where London Bridge had carried traffic between the City and Southwark for six centuries...

Few sheets in Rocque's twenty-four-part survey capture a single trade as clearly as sheet F1, drawn across the Huguenot weaving district that grew up around Spitalfields in the decades before...

Where the Thames narrows past the Tower of London, John Rocque's 1746 survey turns to record one of the busiest working stretches of river in England. This sheet, F2 in...

When John Tallis issued his plan of London in 1851, he timed it to the exact moment the world was watching the city: the Great Exhibition had just opened its...

This is the 1928 edition of Macdonald 'Max' Gill's famous Wonderground Map of London, originally created in 1914 and commissioned by Frank Pick of the Underground Electric Railways Company. At...

Leslie George Bullock made his name in the early twentieth century as a designer of decorative historical maps, working for the Edinburgh firm of John Bartholomew & Son as well...

This plan of the parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields was published in 1720, when John Strype issued his greatly expanded edition of John Stow's Survey of the Cities of London and...

Charles Booth is best remembered today for the poverty maps that colour-coded London street by street between 1889 and 1903, but his enormous survey of the capital, published as Life...

This striking map, drawn by Leslie Macdonald 'Max' Gill in 1915, was commissioned by Frank Pick of the London Underground Electric Railway Company specifically to lure a wartime public back...

This delightfully hand-coloured and extremely rare map of Edinburgh and the Lothians was originally published in 1690 by Valk and Schenk, a master mapmaking duo working out of Amsterdam during...

Two survey projects were racing to map Manchester in the early 1790s, and Charles Laurent's reached print first. William Green had been carrying out a meticulous large-scale survey of the...

John Rapkin engraved this map of Manchester and its environs in 1851, a decade after Manchester had cemented its reputation as the world's first industrial city and the undisputed capital...

For close to four centuries, officials and antiquarians disagreed over whether Monmouthshire properly belonged to Wales or to England, an argument that began when the Laws in Wales Acts of...

This striking hand-coloured map depicts the ancient Irish province of Munster as it existed in 1611, created by the renowned English cartographer John Speed and engraved by Jodocus Hondius. Originally...

Munster appears on this 1665 map under its Latin name, Momonia, a label typical of the classical polish that the Amsterdam publisher Joan Blaeu brought to his Atlas Novus, a...

Engraved by John Rapkin and published by J. Tallis & Co. in 1851 as part of Tallis's Illustrated Atlas, this map captures Newcastle upon Tyne and its neighbour Gateshead at...

Surveyed and drawn by the architect and surveyor Thomas Oliver in 1830, this detailed map captures Newcastle upon Tyne and its neighbour Gateshead just as the town stood on the...

First published in John Speed's landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine in 1611 and engraved by the Dutchman Jodocus Hondius, this richly hand-coloured map presents the...

This map of Norfolk was created by John Speed and engraved by Jodocus Hondius, first published in 1611 as part of Speed's landmark county atlas, The Theatre of the Empire...

This map of Norfolk was published in 1665 by the Amsterdam cartographer Joan Blaeu, part of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the defining atlases of the...

John Cary earned a reputation as the finest engraver of county maps working in Georgian London, and his 1807 map of Norfolk shows exactly why. It was engraved for Cary's...

Drawn by Samuel Lewis in 1844 to accompany his widely used Topographical Dictionary of England, this hand-coloured map records the county of Norfolk in the years just before the railways...

This charming pictorial map of Norfolk was created by Ernest Clegg, one of the most celebrated mapmakers of the early twentieth century, and published in 1945 in the immediate aftermath...

Engraved by Jodocus Hondius and first published in John Speed's 1611 atlas, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, this map presents Northamptonshire as it appeared at the start...

Samuel Lewis compiled this map of Northamptonshire in 1844 as part of the county surveys accompanying his Topographical Dictionary of England, a project that set out to record every English...

Not every old map on this site was produced for sale to travellers or collectors; this sheet was drawn in 1967 by the Polish Army Topography Service, one of the...

This is an unusual and historically significant map of Northern Ireland, produced by the Ordnance Survey in 1923, just a year after the creation of the Irish Free State in...

This remarkable hand-coloured map documents ancient Northumberland in 1611, created by John Speed and engraved by Jodocus Hondius. Originally published in Speed's "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine,"...

This 1611 map of Northumberland was drawn by John Speed and engraved by the Amsterdam engraver Jodocus Hondius for Speed's landmark atlas, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine....