Maps from the British Isles Gallery

Old Map of The British Isles 1635 by Willem & Johan Blaeu from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

This detailed and most attractive reproduction map of The British Isles has been carefully art worked from a scan of an antique original. The famous firm of Dutch cartographers and publishers was established in the late 16th century by Willem Janszoon Blaeu in Amsterdam. Blaeu was a maker of globes and scientific instruments and purchased some of his early map plates from Jodocus Hondius. From this small beginning was to emerge one of the largest and most prolific map publishing houses of the seventeenth century

Old County Map of Dunbartonshire, formally called Dumbartonshire, Scotland 1847 by A&C Black

A finely detailed facimile remastered in full colour from an antique original map of "Dumbartonshire" featured in A&C Black's Atlas of 1847. Each Parish is numbered using an index table, colour rendition beautifully differentiating all of the Parishes. As well as principal roads, towns, villages and hamlets, these county maps of Scotland feature key battle sites marked with two crossed swords and the date of the battle. Dumbarton comes from the Scottish Gaelic D?n Breatainn meaning "fort of the Britons". ... Dumbartonshire County Council, set up under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, adopted the spelling "Dunbartonshire" by 1914, a fact recognised by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

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Old County Map of Renfrewshire Scotland 1654 by Johan Blaue from the Atlas Novus

This detailed and most attractive reproduction map of Renfrewshire, Scotland, has been carefully art worked from a scan of an antique original. The famous firm of Dutch cartographers and publishers was established in the late 16th century by Willem Janszoon Blaeu in Amsterdam. Blaeu was a maker of globes and scientific instruments and purchased some of his early map plates from Jodocus Hondius. From this small beginning was to emerge one of the largest and most prolific map publishing houses of the seventeenth century