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<p>This beautifully restored antique map of Vienna (Wien) offers a fascinating look at the Austrian capital's historic street plan, imperial districts, and urban layout as it appeared in a bygone...

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...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell drew this Map of the Austrian Empire, Italian States, Turkey in Europe, and Greece for Mitchell's New General Atlas, published in Philadelphia in 1860 by his son,...

This rare postal map of Finland and Norrland was drawn by Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly and appeared in Von Reilly and Kuhn's Atlas Universae rei veredariae bilinguis, also titled...

This map of Wisconsin was engraved for G.W. Colton of New York and published in 1855 in Colton's General Atlas, the firm's ambitious steel-engraved atlas of some one hundred and...

Henry S. Tanner, working out of Philadelphia, issued this Wisconsin sheet in 1842, included in the final edition of his New Universal Atlas, the last he personally published after three...

This rare 1722 map of Williamsburg, Virginia, showcases the early layout of the colonial capital, featuring its meticulously designed streets, important landmarks, and key public buildings. Williamsburg, once the heart...

This stunning antique map of Michigan and Wisconsin provides an intricate look into the county divisions, cities, and transportation routes of these two Great Lakes states. The fine craftsmanship of...

This richly detailed map of the Lake District was engraved by John Rapkin and published in 1851 by J. Tallis & Co, one of the leading English mapmaking firms of...

This sheet belongs to the same series of large-scale London district maps that Edward Stanford's Charing Cross firm was producing throughout the 1860s, each one covering a different slice of...

This detailed 1898 hydrographic map of Green Lake, Wisconsin, showcases one of the state’s most iconic freshwater bodies. Surveyed by the Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey, this map provides...

This beautifully hand-coloured map depicts ancient Cheshire in 1611, the work of celebrated cartographer John Speed and engraver Jodocus Hondius. Originally published in Speed's "The Theatre of the Empire of...

Few surveys in European history were born of quite so blunt a purpose as the one behind this map of County Kildare. Sir William Petty, physician-general to Oliver Cromwell's army...

This detailed map of The Seven United Provinces with their Dependencies was published in London in 1809 by Robert Wilkinson. It shows the seven provinces of Zeeland, Holland, Utrecht, Gelders,...

This full-colour map of Wiltshire was created by John Speed and engraved by Jodocus Hondius, first published in 1611 as part of Speed's landmark work "The Theatre of the Empire...

By the time Sir William Petty's Irish county maps reached print in 1685, the fieldwork behind them was already three decades old. Petty had directed the Down Survey of the...

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,...

Stanford's Map of the English Lake District was produced in 1899 by the cartographer and publisher Edward Stanford, at a time when this corner of Cumbria was becoming increasingly popular...

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...

John Speed included this map of Lancashire in his Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, published in 1611 and widely regarded as the first county atlas of England and...

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 map of the province of Connacht was published in 1685 by Sir William Petty, an English surgeon, scientist and statistician who had earlier led the Down Survey of Ireland...

Published by William Faden in 1801 and issued here in its updated 1809 state, this map of Kent holds a genuinely special place in British map history: it was the...

Edward Stanford built his reputation as the pre-eminent map publisher of Victorian London, and this sheet comes from his ambitious Library Map of London, issued in 1862 across twenty-four sheets...

Land in County Tyrone changed hands by force through much of the seventeenth century, and Sir William Petty's survey was built to record exactly who held what afterward. Commissioned to...