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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.
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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 west Asia
JODE, Cornelius de, 1593.
£3,000
The first map to focus on “Australia”
DE JODE, Gerard and DE JODE, Cornelis, 1593.
£18,000
De Jode’s map of South America in original colour
DE JODE, Cornelis, 1593.
£15,000
De Jode’s rare world map
DE JODE, Cornelis, 1593.
£24,000
De Jode’s rare map of China
DE JODE, Cornelius, 1593.
£27,000
De Jode’s rare map of eastern Asia
DE JODE, Cornelis, 1593.
£28,000
De Jode’s map of South America
JODE, Cornelius de, 1593.
£12,000
Ortelius’s rare map of the Pacific, Asia, and America
ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1595.
£7,000
Mercator’s map of Europe with the imaginary island of Frisland
MERCATOR, Rumold; Gerald MERCATOR, 1595.
£1,450
Made with information stolen from the Portuguese
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huyghen van, 1595.
£15,000
One of the most influential maps of Amsterdam
BAST, Pieter, 1597.
£60,000
Arnoldi’s separately-published map of the Americas, with the thumb print of the printer!
ARNOLDI, Arnoldo di, 1600.
£30,000
Van Keerbergen’s edition of Ortelius’ map
ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1601.
£225
The Great Southern Continent
TEIXEIRA, Luis, 1604.