England

Antique maps of England offer an exceptional visual record of the country’s evolving geography, administrative boundaries and infrastructure across five centuries of cartographic development. Early examples from the Elizabethan era, including the influential county maps of Christopher Saxton and John Speed, established enduring templates for English cartography, combining precise surveying with decorative cartouches and heraldic detail.

Later mapmakers including John Cary, Aaron Arrowsmith and the Ordnance Survey brought increased scientific rigour to the depiction of roads, river systems, parish boundaries and coastal profiles. Maps of individual English counties are particularly sought after, offering detailed records of settlements, market towns and land use that have changed substantially in the intervening centuries.

Original antique maps of England are collected for genealogical research, historical study and decorative display. Each map is an original period work on paper, described with clear condition notes by the specialist staff of the Antique Print & Map Room, established in Sydney since 1979.