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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.
(651 results)
The first printed map of Hampshire
SAXTON, Christopher, 1579.
£6,500
The first printed map of Cornwall
SAXTON, Christopher, 1579.
£10,000
Duchetti’s plan of Florence
DUCHETTI, Claudio, 1580.
£2,200
A nation defined… An Elizabethan wall map by “the father of English cartography”
SAXTON, Christopher, 1583.
£75,000
The earliest printed map to focus on China
ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1584.
£4,500
The earliest printed map to focus on China
ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1584.
£6,000
The earliest printed map to focus on China
ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1584.
£4,500
A fine portolan signed and dated by one of the most prolific chart makers of the Mediterranean
RICZO Joan [OLIVA, Joan], 1586.
£200,000
Mercator’s map of the world in fine original colour
MERCATOR, Rumold, 1587.
£9,500
The first printed view of Santiago, Cape Verde
?BOAZIO, Giovanni Battista, 1588.
£12,000
The first printed view of Santo Domingo
?BOAZIO, Giovanni Battista, 1588.
£20,000
The first known engraving of any locality in the present-day United States
?BOAZIO, Giovanni Battista, 1588.
£100,000
Paris
BRAUN, Georg and HOGENBERG, Franz, 1588.
£3,200
Sixteenth century map of Africa by the Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Mazza
MAZZA, Giovanni Battista, 1589.
£7,500
A rare portolan atlas showing the shift in focus from the Mediterranean to northern Europe
DOSSAIGA, Jaime [DOUSAIGO, Jacques], 1590.
£385,000
The first map to show Japan as four islands
PLANCIUS, Petrus, 1590.
£4,000
The first printed map of Alaska and the first map to focus on “Australia”
DE JODE, Cornelis, 1593.
£18,000
De Jode’s rare map of eastern Asia
DE JODE, Cornelis, 1593.