1866 Mitchell Map, Plan of New Orleans. Antique atlas map of New Orleans by Augustus Mitchell titled, Plan of New Orleans, published in 1866. This map is approx 10 by 12 inches plus margins. The lovely hand colouring would have been done at the time of publication. This map would have come from one of Mitchell’s [continue reading]
Taylor & Skinner Maps of the Roads of Ireland 1783 – 2nd edition. Maps of the Roads of Ireland by George Taylor & Andrew Skinner was first published in 1778 from their survey of 1777. There was a second revised or as they called it a corrected edition published in 1783. The title page below is [continue reading]
Manesson Mallet Abissinie Abyssinia Africa Map 1683 1st ed – Abissinie. The map image below is by Manesson Mallet and is titled Abissinie. Showing nearly the whole of Africa. Just missing off the North West section of Africa. Also shown is a map of Madagascar. There are currently about 650 Manesson Mallet maps for sale on eBay [continue reading]
1777 Nicolas Bellin Map St Lucia, Carte de L’Isle de Sainte Lucie J.N. Bellin provided a huge number of maps for L’Abbe Prevost’s ‘Histoire Generale des Voyages’, a 25 volume plus work describing the discoveries, journeys and settlements of seventeenth and early eighteenth century European powers. Many of these antique maps were issued in Dutch [continue reading]
1636 Nicolas Tassin Map of Montauban Villemur-sur-Tarn Mirabel France. Titled – Gouvernemet de Montauban. Montauban is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France. A list of towns on this Tassin map as follows. Montauban, Villemur-sur-Tarn, Mirabel. This map was for sale in my online store as of the post date. [continue reading]
TASSIN Map BOURG sur GARONNE Gironde France 1636 This 370+ years old antique map/engraving is from Nicolas TASSIN’s, Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France….. A very rare map/engraving indeed. This map/engraving has fine attractive modern hand colour. Source: As above……Date Printed: 1636 …….Approx Size: Page 9.7 x [continue reading]
Manesson Mallet Syria Cyprus Map 1683 1st ed. The map image below is by Manesson Mallet and is titled Syrie Moderne. Showing the Middle East region around Palestine, Israel, Cyprus northern Arabia, Southern Turkey and the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. This antique map by Mallet of Cyprus & Syria is quite small. The actual page is [continue reading]
Henry W Taunt 1879 Sketch map of the River Thames. This scarce antique map of the River Thames is by Henry W Taunt published in Oxford in 1879. It shows a map of the River Thames close to the source from Oxford to Putney in London. Passing through the towns of Abingdon, Dorchester, Wallingford, Moulsford, [continue reading]
1764 Joseph Roux Chart, Map, Plan of Tripoli, Libya.
Manesson Mallet Malta Map 1683 1st ed This antique map of Malta is titled Isle de Malthe and is from Description de L’Univers first published in 1683 by Allain Manesson Mallet. Description de L’Univers was a five volume work and contained approx 677 maps, plans, views and engravings covering the whole world and also the planets, [continue reading]