Country Maps – Old Maps Library

PRUSSIA, 1851

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Map of Prussia.

A detailed Victorian map within an ornate printed border, decorated with five vignettes including a portrait of Frederick the Great, a prospect and three views of Berlin. The map was drawn and engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘The Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical Political, Commercial & Statistical’, edited by Montgomery Martin, which was one of the last decorative atlases to be published.

CARTOGRAPHER: JOHN TALLIS

YEAR: 1851

SYRIA, 1851

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Map of Syria, 1851. This map was drawn & engraved by John Rapkin for The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World published by John Tallis.

CARTOGRAPHER: JOHN TALLIS

YEAR: 1851

PERU AND BOLIVIA, 1851

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Map of Peru and Bolivia, 1851. This map was drawn & engraved by John Rapkin for The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World published by John Tallis. A unique map showing views of Potosi, Lima, Tarija and swimming couriers of Peru.

CARTOGRAPHER: JOHN TALLIS

YEAR: 1851

CYPRUS 1885 By William Mackenzie

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A beautiful reprint map of Cyprus. Published c.1885 by William Mackenzie, London for the “The National Encyclopedia”. Engraved by R.Walker

YEAR: 1885

CARTOGRAPHER: William Mackenzie

WALES – JOHN SPEED, 1610

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A rare full colour map of Wales by John Speed, 1610

John Speed (1551/2–1629), an English historian and renowned cartographer, published his ‘Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain’ in 1611.

The second of this work’s four volumes covered Wales and included this map of Wales (dated 1610) along with individual maps of the 13 Welsh counties. Speed’s ‘Theatre’ was extremely successful, and its maps became the basis for folio atlases produced up to the mid-18th century.

YEAR: 1610

CARTOGRAPHER: John Speed

PORTUGAL 1736

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Map of Portugal, agreeable to modern history by Herman Moll, Geographer.

CARTOGRAPHER: Herman Moll.

YEAR: 1736

Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was one of the most important London mapmakers in the first half of the eighteenth century. Moll was probably born in Bremen, Germany, around 1654. He moved to London to escape the Scanian Wars. His earliest work was as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English Atlas, a failed work which, landed Pitt in debtor’s prison. Moll also engraved for Sir Jonas Moore, Grenville Collins, John Adair, and the Seller & Price firm. He published his first original maps in the early 1680s, and had set up his own shop by the 1690s.

Moll’s work quickly helped him become a member of a group which, congregated at Jonathan’s Coffee House at Number 20 Exchange Alley, Cornhill, where speculators met to trade stock. Moll’s circle included the scientist Robert Hooke, the archaeologist William Stuckley, the authors Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and the intellectually-gifted pirates William Dampier, Woodes Rogers and William Hacke. From these contacts, Moll gained a great deal of privileged information that was included in his maps.

Over the course of his career, he published dozens of geographies, atlases, and histories, not to mention numerous sheet maps. His most famous works are Atlas Geographus, a monthly magazine that ran from 1708 to 1717, and The World Described (1715-54). He also frequently made maps for books, including those of Dampier’s publications and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Moll died in 1732. It is likely that his plates passed to another contemporary, Thomas Bowles, after this death.

POLAND 1808

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Map of Poland extending from Prussia in the west to Smolensk in the east. Highly detailed. Divided into the regions controlled by Prussia, Russia and Austria.

The original map is part of a General Atlas – Collection of Maps of the World and Quarters, the Principal Empires, Kingdoms &c. with their several Provinces & other Subdivisions, Correctly Delineated. Published 1800, by Robert Wilkinson.

YEAR: 1808

Robert Wilkinson was a commercial map maker in London in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.

Wilkinson’s work as a mapmaker was primarily as a compiler of information from other sources. He was better known for his work as a printmaker and publisher of books.

JAPAN 1864

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JAPAN – Nippon, Kiusiu, Sikov, Yesso, and the Japanese Kuriles by Johnson and Ward. This map comes from Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World.

CARTOGRAPHER: A.J JOHNSON

YEAR: 1864

SWITZERLAND 1794

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Bowle’s New Pocket Map of Switzerland: comprehending the Thirteen Cantons, with their Allies & Subjected Territories. by Abr.Rouvier.

YEAR: 1794
CARTOGRAPHER : Carington Bowles

IRELAND 1798

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Map of Ireland divided into provinces and countries, showing the great and crossroads with the distances of the principal towns from Dublin.

This map depicts the emerald isle in its entirety, divided into counties and provinces. It covers the four provinces, which remain the same to this day. Also notes major roads, riverways, mountains, and other topographical features. It contains notes of the distances to the principal towns from Dublin, and off the coast, note of various shoals.

By Willm.Faden, Geographer to His Majesty, and to HRH the Prince of Wales. London, 1798. Published by W.Fadem, Charing Cross, Sept. 17, 1798.

CARTOGRAPHER: William Faden

YEAR: 1798