Rare Maps

Rare Maps

We specialise in rare and historic maps, dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Buy rare, vintage, and antique maps, town plans, and sea charts depicting the UK, America, Asia, Africa, and all parts of the world.

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Rare Maps

Rare Maps

We specialise in rare and historic maps, dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Buy rare, vintage, and antique maps, town plans, and sea charts depicting the UK, America, Asia, Africa, and all parts of the world.

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Rare Maps

We specialise in rare and historic maps, dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Buy rare, vintage, and antique maps, town plans, and sea charts depicting the UK, America, Asia, Africa, and all parts of the world.

BECK, Harry Map of London's Underground Railways.

First state of Beck’s iconic tube map

£4,000

By BECK, Harry, [January, 1933].

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FADEN, William A Plan of New York Island, with part of Long Island, Staten Island & East New Jersey,
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The bloody Battle of Long Island

£20,000

By FADEN, William, Oct.r 19th, 1776.

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SAUTHIER, Claude Joseph A Plan of the Operations of the King's Army under the Command of General Sr. William Howe, K.B. in New York and East New Jersey, against the American Forces Commanded by General Washington.
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The first state, issued within months of the action at White Plains

£18,000

By SAUTHIER, Claude Joseph, 25 February 1777.

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KEULEN, Johannes van [Hong Kong / Canton] Nieuwe Pas=Caart strekkende van Pta Cataon tot Pta.

Hong Kong and Canton from the ‘Secret Atlas’

£15,000

By KEULEN, Johannes van, [1753].

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Yu Chong (Qing dynasty) Complete Map of the Front and Rear Mountains of Taiwan (全臺前後山輿圖 Quan Tai Qianhou Shan Yutu)

The first official Qing dynasty map to depict the entire island of Taiwan, including its eastern territories.

£75,000

By Yu Chong (Qing dynasty), 4th year of the Guangxu reign (1878)

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ABDULLAH, Muhammad Morsi; and Federico de AGOSTINI [Physical map of Abu Dhabi].

The first map of Abu Dhabi as the capital of the UAE

£28,000

By ABDULLAH, Muhammad Morsi; and Federico de AGOSTINI, [c1971].

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MUSTAFA, Ezzedin Ibrahim; and Muhammad Morsi ABDULLAH United Arab Emirates.

A landmark in the cartography of the UAE

£18,000

By MUSTAFA, Ezzedin Ibrahim; and Muhammad Morsi ABDULLAH, 1973.

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MUSTAFA, Ezzedin Ibrahim; and Muhammad Morsi ABDULLAH [United Arab Emirates].

Arabic edition of a landmark in the cartography of the UAE

£7,500

By MUSTAFA, Ezzedin Ibrahim; and Muhammad Morsi ABDULLAH, 1974.

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“Then the map was drawn for you, and I am much mistaken if it does not tell you plainly where to go” — ‘The Hobbit’

“Then the map was drawn for you, and I am much mistaken if it does not tell you plainly where to go” — ‘The Hobbit’

£1,500

By TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel; and BAYNES, Pauline, 1970.

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“the last word in seventeenth-century imagery of Rome” (Maier)
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“the last word in seventeenth-century imagery of Rome” (Maier)

£20,000

By FALDA, Giovanni Battista, 1705.

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The earliest extant plan of London

The earliest extant plan of London

£7,500

By BRAUN, Georg and Franz HOGENBERG, 1575].

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ANDERSON, Margaret Swainson Road Map of Barbados. Compiled from Admiralty Charts 502 and 2485,

The first “good road map” of Barbados

£600

By ANDERSON, Margaret Swainson, 1956.

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