Ye olde travel guide

Illustration by Jonty Clark

Ye olde travel guide: Rome 192 AD.

Ye olde travel guide: Goree, 1782.

An illustrated map of Seville.

Ye olde travel guide: Seville, 1670.

An illustrated map of Savannah, Georgia

Ye olde travel guide: Savannah, 1859.

Ye olde travel guide: Amsterdam, 1648.

Ye olde travel guide: Turin, 1887.

Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854.

Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783.

Ye olde travel guide: Heidelberg 1618.

Ye olde travel guide: Thessalonica 1423

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Borneo 1856.

Ye olde travel guide: Astrakhan 1747.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Winnipeg 1913.

Ye olde travel guide: Madrid 1621.

Ye olde travel guide: Rio de Janeiro 1820.

Ye olde travel guide: Florence 1380.

Image by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Calcutta 1905.

Ye olde travel guide: Aksum AD 537.

The LibraryYe olde travel guide: Hong Kong 1842.

Ye olde travel guide: Philadelphia 1774.

Ye olde travel guide: Moscow 1937.

Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Dublin AD 1000.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Sydney 1848.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Bruges 1386.

A 19th-century woodblock print of Edo, now known as Tokyo. (GraphixaArtis/Getty Images)

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Edo 1850.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Meknes 1681.

A contemporary view of the river Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris. (Getty Images)

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Paris 1802.

(Illustration by Jonty Clark for BBC History Magazine)

Ye olde travel guide: Hedeby AD 950.

Vintage map of the Bahamas. (Library of Congress)

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Bahamas 1718.