Items listed on this page are normally on display in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library at St Pancras, London.
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The Ramsay Abbey map, from Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon , c.1350, Royal MS.14.C.ix, ff. 1v–2r more...
A Chart of the Mediterranean Sea, attributed to Angelino Dulcert, c.1339, Add MS 25691
A Greek Ptolemaic map of the world, 14th Century, Add MS 19391, ff.17v-18
Britanniae insulae quae nunc Angliae et Scotiae regna continent cum Hibernia adjacente nova descriptio… , 1556, by Giovanni Andrea Valvassore (fl.1510-1572),
Maps *1080.(50.)
Das ist der Rom Weg von meylen zu meylen mit puncten verzeychnet von eyner stat zu der andern durch Deutzsche lantt … , c.1500, by Erhard Etzlaub (c.1460-1532),
Maps C.2.a.7.(2.)
A pair of celestial and terrestrial globes, c.1621, by Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), Maps G.6.a / Maps G.6.b
A description of the towne of Mannados or New Amsterdam, as it was in September 1661 … , 1664, Maps K.Top 121.35 more...
London Before and After the Great Fire, by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77), 1666, Maps K.Top 21.36.a more...
A Prospect in Dove-Dale 3 Miles North of Ashbourn, 1743, by Antoine Benoist (1721-70) after Thomas Smith of Derby (c.1720-67), Maps K. Top.11.19.b
Part of the Town and Castle of Ludlow in Shropshire, Nov 1st 1779, by Paul Sandby (1731-1809), Maps K.Top.36.15.e. more...
A Bird's Eye View of Lewes Town & the Cliffe with the adjacent Country taken from Baldy's Garden in the Cliffe, 1785, by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-94), Add MS 5672 f.7 more...
A map of the land around Exeter in Devon, 1801, by Thomas Budgen (1766-1832),
Maps OSD 40.(3.) more...
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