David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
online collection of more than 15,800 maps, focusing on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps, with historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa (Cartography Associates)
Discovery and Exploration
maps covering the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, documenting the processes of ‘discovery’ from coast to interior (American Memory)
Dutch City Maps
Seventeenth-century town and city maps (George Welling)
Heading West: Mapping the Territory 1540-1900
Online seminar on the mapmakers of the American West (Alice Hudson, NY Public Library)
John Rocque’s 1746 Map of London
digital edition of Rocque’s 26 inch to the mile map of London, Westminster and Southwark, fully indexed (Motco)
Map History Gateway
including a list of images of early maps on the web (Tony Campbell)
Maps of Scotland
Images of ‘the earliest surviving detailed maps of Scotland, made by Timothy Pont over 400 years ago, in the 1580s and 1590s’. There is also biographical material about Pont, and useful essays on what the maps reveal about facets of late sixteenth-century Scotland (National Library of Scotland)
Maps of the French and Indian War
An online exhibit of a selection of maps used during the war, with information about the war and a timeline (Massachusetts Historical society)
New World maps
(Hargrett Library)
Scottish towns
An early set of maps of Scottish towns, illustrating “special characteristics that made a town a town” (National Library of Scotland)
John Strype’s Survey of London Online
full-text electronic edition of John Strype’s 1720 Survey of London, complete with its maps and plates, as well as an introductory essay and bibliography (The Stuart London Project)
