[Map of Iberia]

Johannes Cloppenburg.
Hispaniæ Nova Descriptio.

Amsterdam, Johannes Jansson van Waesberge, 1676. 185 x 255mm. Coloured.
Spain and Portugal, engraved by van der Keere. Waesberger was Jan Jansson's son-in-law.
CLOP0013

[Map of Spain & Portugal]

Nicolas Sanson.
Espagne.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Spain and Portugal, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0047

[Miniature map of Iberia]

Guillaume Sanson.
Espagne.

Paris, c.1700. 155 x 175mm. Coloured. Narrow top margin.
Miniature map after Sanson
SANS0016

[Decorative map of Spain and Portugal]

Antonio Zatta.
Li Regni di Spagna e Portugallo...

Venice, 1796. 295 x 415mm. Original colour.
With a fine title cartouche in full colour.
ZATT0062

[Fine Map of Portugal]

Jodocus Hondius.
Portugalliae que olim Lusitania...

Amsterdam, 1613. 335 x 495mm. Original colour.
Map of Portugal after Secco, engraved by Baptiste van Doeticum. Orientated with north to the right, the map is decorated with three large strapwork cartouches. KOEMAN: Me 19.
HOND0057

[Decorative map of Portugal]

Matthaus Merian.
Portugallia et Argarbia quæ olim Lusitania.

Frankfurt, c.1660. 295 x 375mm. Coloured.
Decorative map of Portugal after Fernando Alvaro Secco, orientated with north to the right, surrounded with decorations including armorials, galleons and Neptune.
MERI0015

[Portugal with allegorical figure]

Christoph Weigel.
Portugallia ex descriptione exactissima Eduarti Nonii Vernandu Alvari Secci et Antonii Vasconcelli delineata.

Nuremberg, c.1718. 410 x 340mm. Original colour.
The decorative title cartouche of the map depicts an allegorical figure representing Portugal with Asia, Africa and America presenting offerings.
WEIG0012

[Map of Portugal and Brazil]

Johann Baptist Homann.
Portugalliæ et Algarbia...

Nuremberg, c1720. 500 x 575mm. Original colour with later additions.
With a large cartouche for the title and an inset map of Portuguese possessions in Brazil.
HOMA0027

[Portugal and her Brazilian Possessions.]

Georg Matthaus Seutter.
Portugallia et Algarbia Regna...

Augsburg, c.1740. 495 x 570mm. Coloured. Narrow bottom margin.
A fine map of Portugal, with a superb allegorical title cartouche and inset showing the Portuguese colonies in Brazil.
SEUT0022

[Portugal with rococo cartouche.]

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Partie Méridionale de Royaume de Portugal.

Paris, 1751. 500 x 535mm. Original outline colour with later body colour.
Map of southern Portugal with a fine rococo title cartouche.
ROBE0024

[Portugal]

Antonio Zatta.
Regno di Portugallo.

Venice, 1775. 400 x 265mm. Original colour.
Portugal map with a fine title cartouche.
ZATT0042

[Decorative map of northern Portugal]

Antonio Zatta.
Li Portugallo cioé le Provincie di Entre Douro, e Minho, Traz-os-Montes, e Beira...

Venice, 1776. 320 x 425mm. Original colour.
With a fine title cartouche in full colour.
ZATT0063

[Map of Portugal]

Thomas Bowen.
Portugal Accurately Drawn from the most approved Modern Maps and Charts.

London, 1780. 335 x 430mm. Coloured,

BOWE0016

[Detailed map of Portugal.]

John Pinkerton.
Portugal.

London, Cadell & Davies, 1813. 750 x 550mm. Original body colour. Crack in lower platemark.
Large and detailed map of Portugal, published as Wellington was clearing up the remains of French forces at the end of the Peninsular War.
PINK0010

[Colourful Map of Portugal]

John Cary.
Portugal.

London, c.1815. 320 x 250mm. Original colour.
Cary's smaller map of Portugal, in fine colour.
CARY0020

[Colourful Map of Portugal]

John Cary.
A New Map of the Kingdom of Portugal, Divided into Its Provinces, From the Latest Authorities.

London, 1819. 520 x 590mm. Original colour.
A detailed map, in fine colour.
CARY0018

[Detailed Map of Portugal]

James Wyld.
Chorographical Map of the Kingdom of Portugal Divided into Its Grand Provinces.

London, c.1870. 780 x 530mm. Original colour.
A large and colourful map, also showing the Algarve.
WYLD0017

[Algarve]

Antonio Zatta.
L'Esremadura di Portugallo Alentejo, ed Algarve...

Venice, 1775. 325 x 330mm. Original colour. Small repair to margin outside map.
Map of Portugal with a fine title cartouche.
ZATT0003

[Map of Portugal]

Nicolas De Fer
Lisbonne.

Paris, 1705. 245 x 335mm. Coloured.
Plan of the defensive walls of Lisbon, with inset views of the Ribeira Palace (destroyed in the 1755 earthquake) and the Belém Tower, completed 1521 to defend the entrance of the Tagus and now a National Monument. With a sheet of engraved text.
DEFE0034

[Lisbon plan]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Lisbon (Lisboa.)

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1833. Steel engraving, printed area 320 x 390mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of Lisbon, with a vignette prospect under the plan and an inset map of the environs of the city.
SDUK0069

[Basque Region map]

Nicolas De Fer
Les Austuries et la Biscaye, Les Royaume de Navarre, d'Arragon et de Leon, et Celuy de la Vieille Castille.

Paris, 1705. 260 x 360mm. Original colour with additions to the title cartouche.
North-east Spain, marking Madrid, Pamplona, Burgos & Leon.
DEFE0039

[Decorative map of Western Andalucia]

Abraham Ortelius.
Hispalensis Coventus Delineatio, Auctore Hieronymo Chiaves.

Antwerp, 1612. 350 x 460mm. Coloured.
Andalucia west of Cordoba, marking Cadiz and Seville.
ORTE0025

[Vue d'Optique of Seville]

Habermann.
Prospectus Viae Majoris Civitatis Hispalensis. Vüe Perspective de la Bouvre de Seville et de la G.de Rue.

c.1770. 315 x 430mm. Original hand colour.
A 'vue d'optique' of Seville, designed to be viewed through a zograscope, an optical viewer. The naive colouring is standard on these prints.
VUED0003

[Miniature map of Andalusia]

Abraham Ortelius.
Andaluzia

Antwerp, 1593. 80 x 110mm. Coloured.
Andalusia, published in the 'Epitome'.
ORTM0036

[Chart of the Balearics]

Georg Matthaus Seutter.
Carte des Isles de Maiorque, Minorque et D'Yvice...

Augsburg, Tobias Conrad Lotter, c.1770. 495 x 470mm.
Chart of the Balearics after Bellin, originally published by Seutter, here re-issued with a larger inset of Mahon Harbour, updated to show the extensive fortifications built by the British during their possession of of Menorca. Of particular interest is huge Fort St Phillip and the 'Philippe ville' beside it, both demolished after the capture of Minorca by the French & Spanish in 1781. A second inset shows the position of the islands against the coastlines of Spain and Africa.
SEUT0041

[Map of the Basque Country]

Willem Blaeu.
Biscaia et Guipuscoa Cantabriae Veteris Pars.

Amsterdam, c.1640, French text. 385 x 505mm. Original colour.
Map of the Basque Country, marking Bilbao, San Sebastian, Laredo and Santander
BLAE0115

[Chart of the Battle of Vigo, 1702]

Isaac Basire.
Draught of ye Bay of Bulls between the Town of Rotta and Fort Dt. Catherine, under the Command of his Grace the Duke of Ormond; with the disposition of the Frigates which were ordered to stand in by the Shore, to favour the Landing; as also the Situation of the Ground and Bay, with that of the Enemy's Batteries & Troops.

London, c.1750. 480 x 390mm. Coloured.
Battle plan of the Battle of Vigo, 1702, fought in the War of the Spanish Succession. Engraved by Basire for 'Mr. Tindal's Continuation of Mr.Rapin's History of England'.
BASI0005

[Plan of Cardona under siege]

Isaac Basire.
Plan of Cardona a strong City and Castle of Catalonia, upon the River Cardoner as besieged by the French and defended by the Allies.

London, c.1740. 380 x 480mm. Coloured.
Plan of the fortifications of the City, under siege by the French during the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-14. Engraved by Basire for 'Mr. Tindal's Continuation of Mr.Rapin's History of England', with an extensive key.
BASI0008

[De Fer's large map of Castile and Leon]

Nicolas De Fer
La Castille Vieiele et Nouvelle L'Estramadura de Castille et de Leon.

Paris, 1706. 440 x 590mm. Coloured.
Large map of Castile and Leon, with rococo cartouches for the title and scale.
DEFE0042

[Map of southern Castile]

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Partie Meridionale des Etats de Castille...

Paris, 1751. 500 x 570mm. Coloured.
Map of southern Castile, with Andalusia, Granada, Valencia and New Castile.
ROBE0051

[Decorative Map of Castile in Fine Old Colour]

Jodocus Hondius.
Castilliæ Veteris et Novæ Descriptio. 1606.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1613. 365 x 500mm. Original colour.
An early example of this very decorative map of Castille from Mercator's Atlas.
HOND0082

[Aragon & Catalonia]

Jodocus Hondius.
Arragonia et Catalonia.

Amsterdam, 1623, Latin text edition. 350 x 470mm. Coloured.
South eastern Spain, decorated with two strapwork cartouches and ships.
HOND0081

[Map of Catalonia with fine cartouche]

Johann Baptist Homann.
Principatus Cataloniæ...

Nuremberg, c1720. 485 x 550mm. Original colour.
With a fine title cartouche in original colour.
HOMA0006

[Escurial Palace]

Anonymous.
Vüe Perspective du grand Clître de l'Escurial, Sepulture de Roys d'Espagne.

Augsburg: Probst? c.1760. 320 x 425mm. Original colour.
A vüe d'optique of the gardens of the Escurial Palace. Designed to be used in an optical viewer called a zograscope, the image is reversed. The naïve colour is standard with these prints.
ANON0003

[Leon and Asturias with decorative cartouches]

Johannes Jansson.
Legionis Regnum et Asturiarum Principatus.

Amsterdam, 1636. 385 x 490mm. Coloured.
Leon and Asturias, with decorative cartouches for title and scale.
JANS0030

[Decorative plan of Madrid]

Georg Matthaus Seutter.
Madritum sive Mantua Carpetanorum celeberrima Castiliæ Novæ Civitas...

Augsburg, c.1730. 505 x 585mm. Original colour with later additions.
A large and decorative plan of the city, with a prospect under the map and a bull-fighting scene bottom left.
SEUT0025

[Early Townplan of Alhama]

Braun & Hogenberg.
Alhama.

Cologne, 1575-. 350 x 465mm. Fine orignal colour.
Prospect of Alhama, near Granada, drawn by Georg Hoefnagel in 1563 for the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed townplans.
BRAU0077