Country Maps – Old Maps Library

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.

LEICESTER SHIRE 1787

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A 18th century map of Leicestershire, which appeared in John Cary’s New & Correct English Atlas (London: J. Cary, 1787/1788).

John Cary (c.1754-1835) is one of the greatest names in British cartography, as his maps are unsurpassed for their quality, craftsmanship and detail.

CARTOGRAPHER: John Cary

YEAR: 1787