Old  &  Antique  Maps
funny picture to start a section on maps with - a globe - but a globe is a map over the years, I have had seen and used many modern maps, nowadays these are very accurate computer drawn maps

 

it's easy to forget some of the old long outdated maps of years gone by
these old maps can be fascinating and can tell you much about history. London by Richard Bloome

 

 

my site has ten pages
on old maps

and includes
over 80 illustrations

 

right
map of Cumberland by
Archibald Fullerton c. 1835

 Cumblerland

 

 

an old atlas by Ruben Ramble

general information on old maps

including links to other map sites
and a comment on map values
The world by Blaeu

old
World
maps

including illustrations of
different projections
Northamptonshire by John Rocque

old
Northamptonshire
maps

including illustrations of
over a dozen maps
leicestershire by John Seller

old
Leicestershire
maps

including illustrations of
many county maps

Leicestershire by John Gibson

English
county maps

 selection of English county maps all by different cartographers
including illustrations of
over twenty maps
an old map of Edingburgh

unusual old maps

this pages includes a few examples of unusual maps from all over the world

(again
all with illustrations)
a few old atlases survive like this one by Drayton & Hole

old atlases

includes a few examples of rare atlases

after you have read this page you
might want to go and search your attic !!
John Speed was one of the most famous old map makers of all time

John Speed maps

a few examples of the work of one
of Britain's finest cartographers
The title from one of Moll's atlases

Herman Moll maps

a few examples of the finely illustrated work of
Herman Moll
a very early map by of Asia

early old maps

some examples of early maps

pre 1650

 
a old plan of London by Brau

early town plans

some examples of early
town plans
as there are many mountain pictures on this site, there is a page of old mountain maps

old mountain maps

many maps and charts in atlases were devoted to mountains

what would I buy ?

If I had £1,000
or even £20,000

to spend on a map

follow the link to see
two unusual early maps of Britain

 

 

 

amongst the 40 odd cartographers whose work appears on the site are
an old road atlas by John Ogilby

Sebastian Muenster
Christopher Saxton
Richard Blome
John Bill
John Owen & Emanual Bowen
Edward Mogg
John Rocque
Thomas Mule
John Ellis
Gerard Mercator
O.T. Olsen
John Pine
John Cary

 John Speed
Edward Langley
Thomas Badeslade and WH Toms
J Pigot & Isaac Slatter
Ruben Rambles
John Gibson
John Seller
Matthew Simmons
Joan Blaeu
Peter Van Der Ker
Michael Drayton & William Hole
Girolamo Ruscelli		 George Braun
& Franz Hogenberg
Greg Child
John Thompson
John Tallis
R. H. Laurie
Johnson & Ward
Jan Jansson
William Pinnock
Robert Morden
R Creighton & C Walker
T. Kitchin & T. Jefferys
Robert Morden
Martin Waldseemuller

Worcestershire

 Cardiganshire
I would not mind a example of each of the maps
featured on my site

An estimated worth,  would be somewhere around £100,000 +
Instead my collection is valued at a few hundred pounds
and a handful of maps

and does not include any Alephi maps

an old Alephi map

Holland and Belgium by Alephi

This rare "cartoon" type map is often found in the "decorative" section of catalogs or antique map web sites.

This caricature map of Holland & Belgium is one of many maps that were first Published C. 1860 - 70 for a price of five shillings each.

they are now worth between £120 and £200 depending which country they show, but are rare and hard to find.

 

 

 

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