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Empires, alliances and borders on the eve of the First World War.

Borders on the eve of the Second World War and the war's situation maps.

Battle maps, campaigns and troop positions, 1861–1865.

The Western Front, trench maps, Gallipoli and the Eastern Front.

D-Day, the Pacific and US Army situation maps.

Boston, Saratoga, Yorktown and the colonies at war, 1775–1783.

The Empire at its height, the Republic, provinces and roads, from historical atlases.

Egypt, Greece, Persia, Alexander and the ancient Near East.

Mappae mundi, portolan charts and maps of medieval Europe.

The Empire's states from the Middle Ages to 1806.

The empire's growth and decline, Constantinople and the Balkans.

The Thirteen Colonies, New England, Virginia and New Netherland.

The Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, trails and territories.

Railroad companies, routes and land grants in the 1800s.

World maps, city plans, bird's-eye views and atlases, 1500s–1920s.

Waldseemüller, Ortelius, Blaeu and double-hemisphere world maps.

Panoramic maps of American towns drawn from above, 1850s–1920s.

Building-by-building plans of American towns, volume by volume.

Every edition of USGS quadrangles since the 1880s.

Harbours, coasts and oceans with soundings.

Constellations drawn as figures, planispheres and maps of the heavens.

Manhattan from New Amsterdam to the 1920s, Brooklyn and atlases.

Before and after the Great Fire, views and Sanborn atlases.

L'Enfant's plan, the 19th-century city and the Civil War defences.

Before the Great Fire, Georgian and Victorian London.

Bible maps, the twelve tribes and plans of Jerusalem.

Edo-period maps of Japan, plans of Edo and Kyoto.

Chinese maps of the empire, Beijing and European maps of China.

The continent from the 1500s, the Cape, the Nile and the colonial era.