Ye olde travel guide

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Ye olde travel guide: Rome 192 AD. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Goree, 1782. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustrated map of Seville.

Ye olde travel guide: Seville, 1670. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustrated map of Savannah, Georgia

Ye olde travel guide: Savannah, 1859. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Amsterdam, 1648. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Turin, 1887. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Heidelberg 1618. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Thessalonica 1423

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Borneo 1856. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Astrakhan 1747. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Winnipeg 1913. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Madrid 1621. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Rio de Janeiro 1820. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Florence 1380. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye olde travel guide: Calcutta 1905. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Aksum AD 537. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryYe olde travel guide: Hong Kong 1842. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Philadelphia 1774. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Moscow 1937. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Dublin AD 1000. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Sydney 1848. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Bruges 1386. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Edo 1850. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Meknes 1681. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Paris 1802. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(Illustration by Jonty Clark for BBC History Magazine)

Ye olde travel guide: Hedeby AD 950. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vintage map of the Bahamas. (Library of Congress)

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Bahamas 1718. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.