Heading West: Mapping the Territory 1540-1900
online exhibition presenting impressions of the West in maps from 1540 to 1900
online exhibition presenting impressions of the West in maps from 1540 to 1900
High quality scans of Cambridge University Library’s set of 66 proof maps prepared for John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, which was published in 1611/12.
MoEML maps the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London.
an animated map of the spatial history of the Jamaican slave insurrection
electronic edition of John Strype’s 1720 Survey of London, including maps and plates, introductory essay and bibliography
the Down Survey of Ireland (1656-58) is the first ever detailed land survey on a national scale anywhere in the world
digitised collection containing a wide range of individual maps and atlases of Europe and America
Official website of the Selden Map of China at the Bodleian Library, including digitised image of the map and information about it and its restoration
a virtual tour of the Harvard Map Collection 2011 exhibition Toward a National Cartography: American Mapmaking, 1782-1800