Stories, map stories, map making, making of maps, History, Collection Highlights

Remarkable alien landscapes in fantasy fiction

Mars, the Moon and Other Planets

Legendary lands lost beneath the sea

Drowned Worlds

Imagined worlds from East Asian-inspired epic fantasy

Journey to the East

Helvetia!

Imperial Romance and Lost Worlds

Petrus Apianus, 1540

Astronomicum Caesareum

Colourful engraved portrait of Gerard Mercator - an older white man wearing black robes, a large white ruff collar and a black Dutch hat. He is holding a set of compasses on top of a terrestrial globe which he steadies with his left hand.

Mercator: History in the (Map)Making

Black and white engraved chart of the southern hemisphere from Johann Bayer's 'Uranometria'. Radiating from the centre of the map and out to the left are a series of personified constellation with large and small stars surrounding them - the size relating to their brightness.

Bayer's Uranometria

Scientific Works from the Sunderland Collection

A Painted World Map for Worship

Münster's Monsters

Ruscelli's Geografia

A Tour of Cao Junyi's World Map

Cao Junyi: A Complete Map of All Under Heaven

Cartographic connections in the Collection

Mapmaker Matrices

A brief history of windheads on maps

Blowing in the Wind

How Maps Were Made

(The) Front Matter(s)!

Map Projections 

Johann Reger's re-issue of the Ulm Ptolemaic map

Ptolemy's World map

How to read old maps I

Mercator-Hondius World map

How to read old maps II

Making of Maps

Map Stories

Stories