RESOURCES
ASSOCIATIONS & SOCIETIES
The Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA)
The Hakluyt Society
Publishers of historical travel literature since 1846
IMCoS - The International Map Collector's Society
Publishers of The IMCoS Journal
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
Mercator Map Society
New York Map Society
The Phillip Lee Phillips Society of The Library of Congress
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society describes itself as a “Learned society and professional body for geography and geographers".
The Washington Map Society
Publishers of The Portolan
MUSEUMS & LIBRARIES
The Adler Planetarium
Includes information on their Rare Book and Works On Paper collections
American Antiquarian Society
An independent research library documenting American life from the colonial era through Reconstruction
The strength of the map collection is in maps of New England of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
American Memory Map Collections Home Page
The Library of Congress
Antique Maps by Moreland & Bannister
A complete on-line version of this popular reference book
The British Library Map Collections
Geography and Map Division
The Library of Congress
The Hargrett Library Map Collection at The University of Georgia Libraries
The Map Division of The Clements Library at The University of Michigan
The Map Division of the New York Public Library
National Maritime Museum
The collections of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK, contain more that 100,000 sea charts and maps dating from the medieval period to the present day.
The Osher Map Library and The Smith Center for Cartographic Education
University of California at Berkeley Map Collection
Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, University of Texas at Arlington
The Yale University Map Collection
On-line Collections & Exhibitions
Cosmographia: A Close Encounter
The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
An excellent Student Virtual Exhibition with images and text, including a comprehensive reading list.
Cultural Readings: Colonization in Print in the Americas
A Penn Library Exhibition
Some maps, but mostly engravings of the New World, including some nice images from DeBry.
The David Rumsey Collection
Download the entire reference catalog for this important collection
. One of the most comprehensive collections of 18th & 19th century American materials.
Exploring The West From Monticello
The University of Virginia Library
. One of the best on-line exhibition catalogs ever produced with great articles and images.
Mapping Colonial America – Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Explore Colonial Williamsburg’s collection in an online exhibition that includes maps dated from 1587 to 1782.
On-Line Exhibition Catalogs from The Osher Map Library
This site hosts a number of exhibitions on a variety of cartographic subjects.
Roger Baskes Collection
One of the finest collections of atlases and other books with maps in private hands. In all, it comprises over 15,000 books containing 500,000 maps.
RESOURCES
Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica by Tycho Brahe
The Smithsonian Institute Libraries
Includes an introduction, the complete text, and high quality images from the 1602 edition
Cartographica Helvetica
Journal for The History of Cartography
Cartography - Calendar of Events
Very useful site compiled and updated by John W. Docktor
The History of Cartography Project by David Woodward
The University of Wisconsin
The website for this mammoth undertaking contains a wealth of information in addition to order instructions.
The History of Astronomy Site
From The Astronomical Institutes of Bonn University
Imago Mundi
The International Journal for The History of Cartography
MapForum
An excellent on-line publication on The History of Cartography
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The first comprehensive periodical for antique map collectors on the web.
Map History/History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject
An extensive resource site created and maintained by Tony Campbell of the British Library
The MapHist Discussion Group
An e-mail discussion group on The History of Cartography
This site holds a wealth of articles, discussion papers, map images and links of interest.
MapSage.com
The Internet operation of Early Map Source, LLC
Publishers of Rodney Shirley's The Mapping of The World and Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers
Rittenhouse
The Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
The University of Chicago Press
Publishers of books on Cartography and Geography
Including the Lectures In The History of Cartography series
