World Atlases

Author(s)	Title	Publisher	Date	Notes	Reference	Shelving
Ptolemy	Ptolomei Geographia		1490	Ptolemy’s tables, and from this “his” atlas of 1490. London at c55oN, 20oE. Prime Meridian at Fortunate Islands.	Please ask staff
Braun & Hogenberg	Urbium Praecipuarum Totius Mundi, Volumes 1 to 6		1572-1617	Hundreds of very early City maps & views; includes London and Cambridge	Please ask staff
John Goss	Braun & Hogenberg’s The City Maps of Europe	Studio Editions	1572-1617 (1991)	60 Maps reproduced from Braun & Hogenberg’s 6 volume work	912	Roll 29C4
J Speed	A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World	W Humble	1646	Speed’s World Atlas reprinted. Maps by P Kaerius (ie P van den Keere)	Please ask staff
John Thornton	The English Pilot, The Third Book	Theatrum Orbis Terrarum	1703 (1970)	Reproduction of the 1703 Guide and 62 Charts for Indian Ocean and far eastern waters	623.89225	Roll 20D3
Thomas Bankes, EW Blake & A Cook	System of Universal Geography	J Cooke	[1787]	Maps of globes, continents & countries	D37	Tall D4
JH Hinton	The History and Topography of the United States, Vols 1 & 2	Hinton, Simpkin & Marshall	1830 & 1832	16 maps of states and regions, and Gealogical Map of the United States	B3816 & B3817	7C1
SDUK	Miscellaneous and Astronomical Maps	Baldwin & Craddock	1831-44	Astronomical, World, Continent, Country & City maps, collected and stuck on cardboard	D26	Tall F5
Hugh Murray	An Encyclopaedia of Geography	Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman	1834	82 maps of counties	D38	Roll 9B1
G & J Cary	[Atlas]	G & J Cary	1835	Maps of Eastern & Western hemispheres [New Universal Atlas?]	–	Tall C6
Holmes & Laurie	[Atlas]	Holmes & Laurie	1836	Maps of Europe, Asia, Africa and America[s]	–	Tall C6
SDUK	Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowldege, Volumes 1 and 2	Chapman & Hall	1844	World, Continent, Country & City maps	D28 & D29	Tall F5
SDUK	Miscellaneous and Astronomical Maps	Baldwin & Craddock	1844	Continent, Country & City maps, plus maps of Countries in Ancient Times	D27	Tall F5
AK Johnston	The National Atlas	Cowan & Co	[c1850]	41 maps of general geography of countries	Mus.360	Tall B6
AK Johnston	The Physical Atlas	W Blackwood & Sons	1850	Maps of Geology, Hydrology, Meteorology and Phytology & Zoology – of the continents	K439	Tall A6
AK Johnston	The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography	W & AK Johnston	1861	48 maps of world, continents, countries & regions, each map with its own index	D30bis	Tall F5
Henage Lowth	A Concise Historical, Biographical & Genealogical Atlas	Simpkin & Marshall et al	1851	Maps of England & Wales, France, Spain & Portugal, and Germany	B559	Tall A5
George W Colton	Colton’s Atlas of America	JH Colton	1864	64 maps of North America, Central America, South America and Carribean	B3802	Tall A5
Dr Charles Muller	An Atlas of Ancient Geography	John Murray	1874	43 maps of world, empires and countries, many with an Index	B579	Tall F5
Letts, Son & Co	Letts’s Popular Atlas [of the Globe]	Letts, Son & Co	1883	156 double pages of maps of continents, countries, regions and cities	Z237	Tall C4
WG Blackie	The Comprehensive Atlas & Geography of The World	Blackie & Son	1884	World, Continent and Country maps	–	Tall F4
AK Johnston	The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography	W & AK Johnston	1888	53 maps of world, continents, countries & regions, each map with its own index	D30	Tall C6
JG Bartholomew	The Times Survey Atlas of the World	The Times	1922	112 maps of World, Continents, Countries & Regions	–	Short A8
Montgomery Martin	The Illustrated Atlas of the Nineteenth Century World	Studio Editions	1851 (1989)	A reproduction of Tallis’s The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World	912.09034	Roll 29C4
Peter Whitfield	The Image of the World	British Library	1994	57 World maps from 1459 to 1990, high quality reproductions	912.09	Roll 29C4