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| Author | Title | Publisher | Date | Notes | Reference | Shelving |
| John Ogilby | Britannia, Volume the First | John Ogilby | 1675 (1939) | Reproduction of the 100 strip maps of the Principal Roads of England & Wales | C1149 | Roll 8C7 |
| Robert Morden | The New Description and State of England | Robert Morden | 1701 | 53 copper plates, 1 for England & Wales plus 52 for each county of E&W; text on each county | Please ask staff | |
| Herman Moll | The Traveller’s Companion | John Bowles | 1724? | England & Wales maps, then a map of each county | Please ask staff | |
| John Andrews & Andrew Dury | A Map of the Country Sixty Five Miles round London | John Stoke | 1776 | 20 large maps, South Coast to Bedford, Abingdon to Margate | Please ask staff | |
| Chapman & Andre | A Map of the County of Essex | Chapman & Andre | 1777 | 2 inches to a mile map of Essex over 25 sheets; badly over-coloured | C210 | Tall A6 |
| Chapman & Andre | A Map of the County of Essex | Margary and Phillimore | 1777 (1970) | A Map of the County of Essex [Modern reproduction; 2 copies] | – | Reading Rm Right Window Floor |
| John Cary | Cary’s New Map of England and Wales, with a Part of Scotland | John Cary | 1794 | Despite the name, it is an atlas with continuous sheet maps covering the whole of England & Wales | AAM66 | Roll 14C5 |
| John Cary | Cary’s New and Correct English Atlas | John Cary | 1818 | Maps of each county in England, two maps of Wales and one of England & Wales | AAM65 | Roll 14C5 |
| G Ellis | Ellis’s New & Correct Atlas of England & Wales | G Ellis | 1819 | County Maps | D28A | Roll 9D5 |
| C Smith | Smith’s New English Atlas | C Smith | 1822 | County maps of England, plus N & S Wales | V7429 | Reading Rm Left of Fire A4 |
| J Pigot | The Counties of England | J Pigot | 1831 | 39 county maps plus London | AAM505 | Roll 15C3 |
| S Lewis | Lewis’s Atlas comprising the Counties of Ireland | S Lewis | 1837 | Drawn for Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary | 912.415 | Roll 29C4 |
| J&C Walker | This British Atlas | J&C Walker | 1837 | County maps of England & Wales | C1466 | Tall F5 |
| Irish Railway Commission | Irish Railway Commission Maps | Irish Railway Commission | 1838 | 5 maps of Ireland and 1 of England, Wales & Ireland – all relating to current and proposed railways | D30 | Tall F6 |
| S Lewis | Atlas, comprising Maps of the Several Counties divided into Unions | S Lewis & Co | 1842 | Map of England & Wales, Map of London and maps of the Counties, naming the Poor Law unions. Earlier edition held as Gazetteer C1426 | Z29 | Roll 9D6 |
| John Bartholomew | Black’s Handy Atlas of England and Wales | A&C Black | 1892 | 10 E&W maps, 40 county maps, 14 town plans | C1148 | Roll 8C3 |
| Alan Jowett | Jowett’s Railway Atlas | Patrick Stevens | 1989 | Maps of the railway lines prior to 1923, across 150+ hand-drawn maps | 912.1385 | Roll 29C4 |
| Sarah Bendall | Baker’s map of the University and Town of Cambridge, 1830 | Cambridgeshire Records Society | 1999 | Full size reproduction of Baker’s Map of Cambridge | 912.42659 | Roll 29C4 |