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This rare 1642 map of New Amsterdam, now modern-day New York City, presents an extraordinary look at the early Dutch colony before it became one of the most influential cities...

This beautifully restored antique map of Holland showcases the Netherlands’ historic provinces, waterways, and settlements in exquisite detail. Featuring fine hand-drawn elements and period-accurate coloring, it highlights the region’s complex...

Set foot into a nation reclaimed from the sea, where meticulously engineered dikes cradle vibrant farmland and storied merchant fleets once ferried wares across global waters. This Holland Archival Map...

Step into the historical landscape of The Netherlands in 1851 with this intricately detailed map, which captures the dense network of canals, rivers, and cities that characterize this iconic European...

Set sail through centuries of ingenuity with this Historic Netherlands Map, portraying a coastal lowland region where dikes, windmills, and merchant fleets shaped European trade. Each province border and canal...

John Speed, England's best-known mapmaker of the Stuart period, died in 1629, but this map of New England and New York did not reach print until 1676, engraved by Francis...

Henri Abraham Chatelain engraved this map of New France for the first edition of his Atlas Historique, published by L'Honore & Chatelain of Amsterdam across 1719 and 1720 with descriptive...

This extraordinary hand-coloured map of Yorkshire was created by the master Amsterdam cartographer Joan Blaeu in 1654, published in his celebrated Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Nearly 400 years old, this is...

Nicolas Sanson, the Abbeville-born cartographer credited with shifting the center of European mapmaking from Amsterdam to Paris and tutoring King Louis XIII himself in geography, first issued this map of...

This map of Hertfordshire was created by the celebrated Amsterdam mapmaker Joan Blaeu and originally published in 1665 in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the great...

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

This vivid county map of Surrey was engraved and published in 1665 by Joan Blaeu, the celebrated Amsterdam mapmaker whose workshop produced some of the finest atlases of the seventeenth...

This reproduction reproduces an exceedingly rare 1665 map of the Isle of Skye, created by the master Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu from his workshop in Amsterdam and originally published as...

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

Joan Blaeu inherited the great Amsterdam mapmaking business founded by his father Willem and pushed it to its most spectacular expression in the Atlas Maior, a multi-volume world atlas published...

Amsterdam, rather than Edinburgh or London, was where much of Scotland's coastline first reached print in reliable detail, and this 1690 map of the Hebrides was issued by the Dutch...

Lieutenant Bernard Ratzer, a British Army officer and surveyor who worked alongside contemporaries Claude J. Sauthier, Samuel Holland and Thomas Jefferys, produced the map generally considered the most important eighteenth-century...

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...

Amsterdam's Blaeu printing house was, by the mid-seventeenth century, the largest and best-equipped map publisher in Europe, and it is this workshop's engraving of Cornwall, titled Cornubia sive Cornwallia, that...

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

This hand-coloured map of the whole of Yorkshire was first published in 1690 by Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk, two Amsterdam-based mapmakers who worked together producing decorative and topographical maps...

This reproduction reproduces a beautifully hand-coloured 1654 map of Scotland, titled in Latin Scotia Regnum, or 'The Kingdom of Scotland', created by the master Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu in his...

Created by John Speed and engraved by the Amsterdam mapmaker Jodocus Hondius, this map of Connacht first appeared in Speed's landmark 1611 atlas, The Theatre of the Empire of Great...

This map of Somerset was produced by the celebrated Amsterdam cartographer Joan Blaeu and published in 1665 as part of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Sive Atlas Novus, one of the...

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...

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...

Stretching from the Great Glen to the North Sea coast, this 1690 map takes in a wide cross-section of north-east Scotland, published by the Amsterdam partnership of Gerard Valk and...

This reproduction reproduces John Speed's 1611 map of Dorset, or Dorsetshire as it was then known, taken from his landmark atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the...

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....

Sidney Morse and Samuel Breese, working in New York, published this map of New York in 1845 as part of Morse's North American Atlas, issued by Harper & Brothers across...

This is a beautifully restored reproduction of an exceedingly rare seventeenth-century map of Ireland, titled in Latin Hibernia Regnum, or 'The Kingdom of Ireland'. It was engraved and hand-coloured by...

Created by the celebrated Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu, this exceptionally rare, hand-coloured map of Ulster was produced at his workshop in Amsterdam and first published in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum...

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...

Two very different landscapes meet on this map of Gloucestershire, engraved in 1665 by Joan Blaeu from his Amsterdam workshop for the English volume of his Atlas Novus. To the...

Joan Blaeu's Amsterdam workshop engraved this map of Hampshire for inclusion in the Atlas Novus, the great multi-volume survey of the world's countries that made the Blaeu name famous across...

Long before Croydon, Richmond and Kingston were transferred into Greater London under the London Government Act of 1965, they belonged firmly within Surrey, and this map of the county, engraved...

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...

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...

Devon's long double coastline, facing both the Bristol Channel and the English Channel, gave the county an outsized place in England's maritime history, and this 1665 map by Joan Blaeu...

The West Riding of Yorkshire was already one of England's busiest manufacturing regions when Joan Blaeu's workshop in Amsterdam engraved this map for his Atlas Maior, first issued in 1662...

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 exquisite vintage map of Vienna, Austria, from the 19th century provides a detailed urban plan of the city during a time of growth and transformation in the heart of...

Experience a time when grand palaces stood beside tranquil canals, and political influence merged seamlessly with maritime culture in the Hague. This 1670 Vintage Map Print reveals the city’s winding...

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...

An oddity of the historic county of Lancashire is that its boundary once reached north across Morecambe Bay to take in a detached block of the Lake District, and John...

This exceedingly rare, full-colour map of Wiltshire was created by the master Amsterdam mapmaker Joan Blaeu and originally published in his celebrated atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus,...

What sets Joan Blaeu's map of Kent apart from the English county maps it was based on is the sheer decorative ambition of the Amsterdam workshop that produced it. Issued...

Worcestershire was among the English counties John Speed surveyed for The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, published in 1611 and engraved, like the rest of the atlas, by...

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...

Compiled for John Speed's 1611 Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, the first printed atlas devoted entirely to England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, the Gloucestershire sheet stands out even...