Items listed on this page are normally on display in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery: Treasures of the British Library at St Pancras, London.
You can find out more about selected items online. You can also check opening times and get an overview of what the gallery contains.
• Mappamundi from 1350, the Ramsay Abbey map Royal MS 14 C IX ff. 1v - 2
• 14th/15th century map, with zodiacal signs and wind-heads. Add. MS 19391 ff. 17v - 18
• Portolan chart showing the Mediterranean & European coasts. 1339 Add. MS 25691
• 1546 map of the British Isles. 1546 Maps *1080.(50)
• European printed travel map by Erhard Etzlaub (c.1460 - 1532) Maps C.2.a.7.(2)
• "The Duke's Plan", idealised picture map of New Amsterdam. C. 1664 Maps K.Top CXXI.35
• Map of London before and after the Great Fire of London. Maps K.Top 21.36.a
• Thomas Smith of Derby (c.1720 - 67) etching showing the River Dove Maps K.Top.11.19.b
• Aquatint showing the ruins of Ludlow castle by Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809) K.Top.36.15.e
• Watercolour - Lewes, Sussex by Samuel Hieronymous Grimm, 1785 Add. MS 5672.f. 7
• Drawing for the first edition Ordnance Survey map of Exeter. 1801 Maps OSD 40.(3)