University of Waikato Library: Map Collection United Kingdom: Historical maps
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United Kingdom
The Road From London to the Lands End Comencing at the Standard in Cornhill and Extending to Senan in Cornwall, [Plate 25 London to Andover], by John Ogilby Esqr his Maties Cosmographer. Plate from Ogilby's Britannia' Atlas. London: 1675.
The Map of Great Britain circa A.D. 1360, known as the Gough map: an introduction to the facsimile, by E. J. S. Parsons; with the roads of the Gough map by Sir Frank Stenton. Oxford: Printed for the Bodleian Library by the University Press, 1958.
Angliae Regni Florentissimi nova Descriptio Auctore Humfredo Lhuyd den Bygiense. Plate from Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. 37.5 x 47 cm. Antwerp: 1573.
Angliae Regnum. Jan Jannson. 39 x 50 cm. Amsterdam: c1650.
Anglia hominu~ numero reruniq~ fere omniu~ copijs abundans; sub mitissimo Elizabethae, serenissima et doccissima Reginae, imperio, placidissima pace annos iam viginti florentissima, by Christopher Saxton. [Facsimile carries title: Saxton's map of England and Wales, 1579]. 39 x 49 cm. Originally published in Saxton’s Counties of England, 1579. Facsimile published London: Taylowe Ltd., 1963.
Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabula. Willem Blaeu. 39 x 50 cm. Originally published Amsterdam: c1635. Facsimile edition London: c1970.
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The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, by John Speed. 38 x 52 cm. Originally published in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. London: Sudbury & Humble, 1612. Facsimile edition London: Geographical Magazine, 1987.
County maps
Berkshire. 23.5 x 19 cm. London: J. Wilkes, 1801.
Langley's New Map of Hampshire. 17.5 x 26.5 cm. London: Langley & Belch, 1817.
Yorkshire. Plate from Cary’s New and Correct English Atlas, being a new Set of County Maps from actual Surveys, etc. 21 x 26.5 cm. London: J. Cary, 1787.
Rutlandshire. Plate from Thomas Moule’s The English Counties Delineated. Or, A Topographical Description of England. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. London: Virtue, 1837.
Saxton’s Counties of England, 1579. Facsimile maps
Glocestriae Siue Claudiocestriae Comitat, by Christopher Saxton. [Facsimile carries title: Saxton's map of Gloucestershire, 1577]. 39 x 50 cm. Originally published in Saxton’s Counties of England, 1579. Facsimile published London: Taylowe Ltd., 1961.
Devoniae comitat rerumque omnium in codem memorabilium, by Christopher Saxton. [Facsimile carries title: Saxton's map of Devonshire, 1575]. 40 x 46 cm. Originally published in Saxton’s Counties of England, 1579. Facsimile published London: Taylowe Ltd., 1960.
Lincolniae, Notinghamiae comitatum, by Christopher Saxton. [Facsimile carries title: Saxton's map of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, 1576]. 41 x 53.5 cm. Originally published in Saxton’s Counties of England, 1579. Facsimile published London: Taylowe Ltd., 1959.
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Northamton, Bedfordia’, Cantabrigi’a, Huntingdoniae et Rutlandiae comitatuum, by Christopher Saxton. [Facsimile carries title: Saxton's map of Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Rutland, 1576]. 39 x 52 cm. Originally published in Saxton’s Counties of England, 1579. Facsimile published London: Taylowe Ltd., 1961.
Cantii, Southsexiae, Surriae, et Middelsexiae comitat’, by Christopher Saxton. [Facsimile carries title: Saxton's map of Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Middlesex, 1575]. 41 x 55 cm. Originally published in Saxton’s Counties of England, 1579. Facsimile published London: Taylowe Ltd., 1960.
Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae comit’, by Christopher Saxton. [Facsimile carries title: Saxton's map of Westmorland and Cumberland, 1576]. 39 x 50 cm. Originally published in Saxton’s Counties of England, 1579. Facsimile published London: Taylowe Ltd., 1963.
Eboracensis comitatus, by Christopher Saxton. [Facsimile carries title: Saxton's map of Yorkshire, 1577]. 39 x 50 cm. Originally published in Saxton’s Counties of England, 1579. Facsimile published London: Taylowe Ltd., 1963.
Blaeu’s “Atlas of Scotland”
Blaeu Atlas of Scotland. Prepared by James and Robert Gordon from surveys by Timothy Pont. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1654. Facsimile edition.
Including: Scotia regnum [Scotland]. 38 x 50 cm.
Coila Provincia; The province of Kyle [Ayr]. 45 x 57 cm.
Duo Vicecomitatus Aberdonia & Banfia, una cum Regionibus & terrarum tractibus sub iis comprehensis
[Aberdeen and Banff]. 42.5 x 56 cm.
Extima Scotiae septentrionalis ora, ubi Provinciae sunt Rossia, Sutherlandia, Cathenesia, Strath-
Naverniae, cum vicinis regiunculis quae eis subsunt, etiamque Moravia [Northern Scotland].
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Blaeu’s “Atlas of Scotland” (continued)
Fifae Vicecomitatus, The Sherifdome of Fyfe [Fife]. 41 x 52 cm.
Gallovidia, vernacule Galloway [Galloway]. 42 x 53 cm.
Ila Insula ex Aebudarum majoribus una, The Yle of Ila being one of the biggest of the Westerne Yles
[Islay]. 40 x 53 cm.
Levinia Vicecomitatus; The Province of Lennox called the Shyre of Dun-Britton [Dumbarton].
39 x 52.5 cm.
Mula Insula, quae ex Aebudarum numero una est, et Lochabriae ad occasum praetenditur. The Yle of Mul
whiche is one of the Westerne Yles, and lyeth ovir against Lochabyr [Mull]. 42 x 54 cm.
A New description of the Shyres Lothian and Linlitquo [The Lothians]. 36 x 54 cm.
Orcadum et Shetlandiae Insularum accuratissima description [Orkney and Shetland]. 40 x 52 cm.
Praefectura Renfroana, vulgo, dicta Baronia. The Baronie of Renfrow [Renfrew]. 39 x 54 cm.
Scotiae provinciae mediterraneae inter Taum flumen et Vararis aestuarium: Sunt autem Braid-Allaban,
Atholia, Marria Superior, Badenocha, Strath-Spea, Lochabria, cum Chersoneso qui ei ad occasum
praetenditur; cum singulis earundem partibus [Central Highlands]. 42 x 53 cm.
Sterlinensis praefectura; Sterlin-Shyr [Stirling]. 41 x 52 cm.
Teviotia, Vulgo, Tivedail [Roxburgh and Selkirk]. 43 x 53 cm.
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