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This is a rare full colour map of Wales from 1610, created by John Speed - widely regarded as the finest British cartographer of the Stuart era. It was first...

This vividly coloured map of Wales was produced in 1645 by Jean (Joan) Blaeu, one of the most celebrated cartographers of the Dutch Golden Age, working from his renowned workshop...

This extraordinary map of Wales was compiled in 1580 by Christopher Saxton, widely regarded as the father of British cartography. It was one of the earliest attempts to accurately chart...

This print reproduces Christopher Saxton's landmark map of England and Wales, first published in 1579 and widely regarded as the earliest printed survey to lay out the two countries together...

This is a powerful historical and ethnographic map of ancient Britain from 1856, presenting the island as it existed in antiquity — the age of Iron Age tribes, Celtic settlements,...

John Speed was a tailor by trade before he turned to cartography, and by 1611 his atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine had made him the best-known...

This richly illustrated historical map of England and Wales was created by the cartographer L.G. Bullock in 1958, and belongs to a tradition of pictorial maps that turn geography into...

This map of the complete British Isles — England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland — was originally published in 1611 by John Speed, widely regarded as one of the founding figures...

This striking full-colour map charts the railways, canals and waterways of the British Isles at their Victorian peak, engraved by G.H. Swanston and published by A. Fullarton & Co in...

This large hand-coloured map, first published in 1843 by Chapman & Hall, charts the geology of England & Wales as understood by Roderick Impey Murchison, one of the most influential...

Samuel Lewis published this hand-coloured map of England and Wales, divided into counties, in 1844 as part of the atlas that accompanied his Topographical Dictionary of England, a reference work...

Embark on a journey through the heart of England and Wales with this meticulously restored map, capturing the county boundaries, historic roads, and notable landmarks that shaped both regions. Sourced...

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...

In 1573, Christopher Saxton set out under a royal patent from Elizabeth I to survey every county in England and Wales, a project that would culminate in 1579 with the...

This is a remarkable and specialised geological and railway map of England and Wales from 1834, representing the cutting edge of both geological science and transportation innovation, at a moment...

This celebrated map of the British Isles was originally published in 1611 by John Speed, widely regarded as one of the fathers of English cartography and the most notable mapmaker...

Macdonald Gill spent much of his career designing maps that were meant to be looked at as much as read, and his map of agriculture and fisheries in England and...

Published in Letts's popular Victorian atlas and dated 1884, this map is as much a statistical chart as it is a work of cartography, tracing the rapidly expanding railway network...

Published in 1827 by the cartographer and publisher Anthony Finley, this map presents the historic counties of England and Wales in one richly coloured sheet, each county picked out in...

This unusual map shows the geology of England and Wales in remarkable detail, with the rock formations of both nations set out in colour. It was created by the geologist...

This reproduction reproduces John Speed's 1611 map of Anglesey, one of the county maps from his landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the first comprehensive county-by-county...

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge did not exist to flatter its readers; founded in London in 1826 by Lord Brougham and a circle of reform-minded Whigs, its...

Few atlases changed the shape of commercial map publishing as decisively as Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first issued in Antwerp in 1570 and generally credited as the first modern...

By 1881, when A.K. Johnston published this railway map of England and Wales, the country's rail network had reached its Victorian peak, a dense mesh of competing companies criss-crossing every...

John Tallis, the London publisher who produced the decorative world atlas for the Great Exhibition of 1851, issued this map of New South Wales in London in 1851, engraved for...

Henry Teesdale, the London map publisher who was an early Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, elected in 1830, issued this detailed engraved map of the Colony of New South...

Thomas Richards, who rose from apprentice to Government Printer of New South Wales in Sydney, published this Sketch Map of New South Wales Showing the Localities of the Principal Minerals...

John Bartholomew, whose Edinburgh firm was one of the leading British map publishers of the late nineteenth century, produced this map of the eastern section of New South Wales around...

By the middle of the nineteenth century the fashion for lavishly decorated national maps was already fading, yet John Tallis's 1851 map of the British Isles stands as one of...

This is a striking map of the Great Western Railway network as it stood in 1950, showing just how extensive the British rail system was before the Beeching cuts of...

Created by John Speed and engraved in Amsterdam by Jodocus Hondius, this map of Pembrokeshire was first published in 1611 within Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the...

Blackie and Son of Edinburgh and London produced this map of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria around 1880, a vivid and intricate portrayal of the three colonies of the...

William Faden drew this map of Great Britain in 1801, near the peak of a career that saw him appointed Geographer to King George III and established as one of...

This exceedingly rare monochrome map shows Great Britain, that is England, Scotland and Wales, as it was believed to appear during the fifth and sixth centuries AD, under the Anglo-Saxon...

Cross centuries of evolving monarchies and Gaelic folklore with this Antique British Isles Map Reproduction, showcasing a time when castles dotted lonely coastlines and bustling ports fed the ambitions of...

O.W. Gray of Philadelphia published this Gray's New Map of Australia in 1879, from the firm whose National Atlas was one of the most successful commercial ventures of the 1870s...

This chart was produced in 1935 to record the lifeboat stations of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution around the coasts of the British Isles. The RNLI itself had been founded...

This reproduction reproduces a striking 1752 sea navigation chart of the British Isles, created by the English chart-makers Page & Mount. Unlike a conventional land map, this is a working...

Long before the Ordnance Survey, and even before Christopher Saxton's county atlas, an English exile living in Rome produced one of the first reasonably accurate printed maps of the whole...

This unusual map shows the geological and palaeontological regions of the entire British Isles, covering England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, as recorded in 1854. It was engraved by A.K. Johnston...

The mid-1960s were an odd moment to map Great Britain and Ireland, caught between an older county geography and the motorway age that was only just beginning. By 1967 the...

Edward Stanford Ltd., the London cartographers and map sellers, issued this map of Australia and Tasmania in 1926 as page 59 of Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography, 'Whitehall' Edition,...

The Polish Army Topography Service compiled this map of south-eastern Australia in 1967 for the Pergamon World Atlas, the English edition of the Polish Atlas Swiata published in 1968 by...

Rand McNally and Company of Chicago published this large-format map of Australia in 1882, with big inset maps of New Zealand and of Sydney and a smaller inset of Tasmania....

John Bartholomew, the Edinburgh cartographer who held a royal appointment under George V, edited this map of Australia and the South-West Pacific for The Times Atlas of the World, Mid-Century...

Published in 1834 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, this fascinating map looks back nearly two thousand years to chart Britain as it stood before and during...

Edward Stanford of London issued this map of Australia and Tasmania in 1882 as page 41 of the Quarto edition of Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography, a world atlas...

Cornelius S. Cartee compiled A School Atlas of Physical Geography, published in Boston in 1856 by Hickling, Swan, and Brown to accompany his Elements of Physical Geography, and this map...

Journey across an archipelago where Celtic traditions converge with Anglo-Saxon governance, forging centuries of royal intrigues, maritime trade, and literary brilliance. This Old British Isles Map Fine Print reveals a...

This charming reproduction reproduces a richly illustrated pictorial map of the British Isles first published in 1939 by the American artist Ernest Dudley Chase. Chase trained as a graphic artist...