Africa (& the islands)

• Africa. 'A Bibliography for Research at Columbia University on "Maps and Power in Modern African History: with special reference to West, East, and Central Africa" ' ['modern' includes 19th century] (Joseph S. Caruso, Columbia University)
• * Africa. 'Abstracting Africa: Thematic Mapping and British Imperialism, 1870 - 1930' (Slide Set #30: commentary by Jon Hegglund, including six, low resolution maps - Newberry Library) {December, 2002}
• Africa. The Circumnavigation of Africa (Ciaran Branigan, from Classics Ireland, 1994) {December 2000}
• Africa (commentary on John Bartholomew's map from Black's General Atlas of the World (1885) (Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, 1999) {March, 2002}
• Africa. Discovery. 'L'Europe découvre l'Afrique' (a series of texts, linked to related catalogue entries and illustrated with a number of maps and charts - Bibliothèque Nationale de France) {July, 2002}
• + Africa. 'Exploring Africa: an Exhibit of Maps and Travel Narratives' [Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, 1997] {October 2000}
• + Africa. 'The Eye of the Beholder: Africa Through Western Eyes' (exhibition at the Yale Map Collection, 1997 - a few images) {November 2000}
• Africa. 'The History of Cartography related to Africa' (brief introduction - George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) {August, 2001}
• 'Africa's oldest map unveiled'. (a brief report, with image of the 'Da Ming Hun Yi Tu, or Amalgamated Map of the Great Ming Empire', a large MS map of 1389, apparently showing southern Africa - report by Alastair Leithead, BBC correspondent in Cape Town, 12 November 2002. For further information see 'BBC - "Africa's Oldest Map Unveiled"') {November, 2002}
• Africa south of the Sahara. Topics: Maps (a useful list of links, often itemising the Africa content of general sites, with a link to an overlapping site for South Africa - Karen Fung, Stanford University Libraries) {November, 2002}
• "Africa Unbounded on an Unstudied European Mappamundi (c. 1450) and in Related Cartography" (talk outline about a partial mappamundi in the James Ford Bell Library - Scott D. Westrem, The City University of New York) {February, 2001}
• Canaries. 'Historia / Canarias / Navegación' (complex site, in Spanish, on the history of the Canaries, by Manuel García) {March, 2002}
• Congo Bibliography: Maps & Atlases (part of the online 'Congo Expedition 1909-1915' - American Museum of Natural History) {November, 2002}
• Liberia. 'Maps of Liberia 1830-1870' (Library of Congress)
• Libya. 'László Almásy: The real Hungarian desert explorer' (a short illustrated article, also in German - Zsolt Török; and the same author's 'Desert Love' - Mercator's World 2:6, 1997) {October, 2001}
• Madeira. The archipelago of Madeira in the XV-Century (Luis de Albuquerque and Alberto Vieira, 1988)
• St. Helena. Maps and Views of St Helena (click on each for image and long caption - by Barry Weaver)
• South Africa, Chief Directorate of Surveys and Mapping [follow links to: 'History of geodetic surveying in South Africa'; 'History of national mapping in South Africa']

Americas

• 'The 1562 Map of America by Diego Gutierrez' (John R. Hébert - Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• + 'Cartes des Amériques dans les Collections de la Bibliothèque Albert Ier, Bruxelles' [Introduction by Hossam Elkhadem, 1992 - with a description and bibliography for each map] {October 2000}
• 'The Gulf Stream' (by James C. Hobbs, accompanying the 2002 exhibition at the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Broward County Libraries Division (Ft. Lauderdale)) {August, 2002}
• 'Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish-American War' (Raymond B Craib and D. Graham Burnett - The Historian, Fall 1998)
• * 'Inventing America: a model of cartographic semiosis' (William Boelhower - from Word and Image, 1998)
• 'Like no other: the 1562 Gutiérrez Map of America' (John Hébert and Richard Pflederer - Mercator's World 5:6, 2000) {November 2000}
• 'The Luso-Hispanic world in maps: a selective guide to manuscript maps to 1900 in the collections of the Library of Congress' (by John R. Hébert and Anthony P. Mullan- this version is searchable by keyword) {February, 2001}
• * 'Ruling the World: The Cartographic Gaze in Elizabethan Accounts of the New World' (by Mark Koch, from Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998))
• "Spain Maps Her 'New World'" (David Buisseret - Encounters, Feb. 1992)
• see also People: Columbus; Piri Reis

America (North)

• North America. American Panoramic Artists and Publishers (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• + North America. 'An overview of cartography' [maps of the world, N. America and Canada, selected by Edward Dahl] {October 2000}
• + North America. 'Cartes d'Amérique du Nord' [Part of: 'Cartes des Amériques dans les Collections de la Bibliothèque Albert Ier, Bruxelles', 1992 - with a description and bibliography for each map] {October 2000}
• North America. Des Barres. The 'Atlantic Neptune' online [including graphic indexes, chart listing, links, selected images, etc]
• North America. Des Barres. 'Margins for errors: manuscript notations in The Atlantic Neptune' (J Victor Owen - Mercator's World 5:4, 2000)
• + North America. Exploring the West from Monticello: a perspective in maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark (Guy Meriwether Benson, William Irwin and Heather Moore, 1995)
• North America. 'The False Sea of Verazzano' (Philadelphia Print Shop) {November, 2001}
• North America. 'Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in North America (London, 1733)' [detailed and extensive analysis] (Mark Babinski - Edited by Matthew H. Edney)
• * North America. 'Hiding and Highlighting Power in Eighteenth-Century North American Maps' (Slide Set #31: commentary by Andrea Foroughi, including six, low resolution maps - Newberry Library) {December, 2002}
• + North America. Historical maps [from 'Archiving Early America'] {October 2000}
• + North America. John Mitchell's Map [of the British Colonies in North America] 1750-1755: An Irony of Empire - with a cartobibliography (Matthew H. Edney - Osher Map Library exhibition)
• North America. Mapping the American Revolution and its era (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• North America. 'The Mapping of the Great Lakes in the Seventeenth Century' (Mark Steuer - Voyageur Magazine, 1984)
• North America. 'Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy, the marquis de Lafayette's cartographer' (Paul E Cohen, Magazine Antiques, Jan. 1998) {October 2000}
• North America. 'Nineteenth Century Images of the World for American School Children' (commentary to six images by Jeffrey C. Patton [click on the image for its own detailed text] - Newberry Library Slide Set #20) {March, 2002}
• North America. Panoramic Maps 1847-1929 (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• see also People: Cabot; Drake; Frobisher
• Bermuda. 'Checklist of printed maps of Bermuda 1585-1778' [75 entries] (Ashley Baynton-Williams - MapForum 3, March/April 1999)
• + 'Canada at Scale': Maps of our History (National Archives of Canada) {October 2000}
• Canada. 'Canadian Atlases since 1945 - A Bibliography: Historic Atlases' (from The Atlas of Canada) {May, 2002}
• Canada. Canadian Genealogy and History Links (Jessica Veinot) {May, 2002}
• Canada. 'Carving up America. "Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays c'est l'hiver - Gilles Vigneault" ' (J Victor Owen - Mercator's World 6:3, 2001) {May, 2001}
• + Canada. Champlain the cartographer [part of 'Living in Canada in the time of Champlain 1600-1635'] {October 2000}
• Canada. 'Conflict on the Connecticut' (Alec McEwen - Mercator's World 6:5, 2001 - about the Republic of Indian Stream, in an area claimed by both the US and Canada) {September, 2001}
• Canada. 'Early Cartography of Newfoundland and Labrador'(Alberta Auringer Wood, 2000) {October 2000}
• Canada. 'The Explorers' (notes on 19 explorers, and their maps) {March, 2002}
• Canada. Geographical Names: sources of local history (Geographical Names, Natural Resources Canada, 1997)
• Canada. 'Inuit & Englishmen: the Nunavut Voyages of Martin Frobisher' (a complex site from the Canadian Museum of Civilization, with sections on the region's cartography, and notes on Best, Dee, Fenton, Frobisher, Gilbert, Hall and Lok) {March, 2002}
• Canada - Newfoundland. 'Shanawdithit's Story: Mapping the last days of the Beothuk' (Stephen R Bown - Mercator's World 5:5, 2000)
• Canada - Newfoundland and Labrador (a searchable bibliography, describing 'printed and manuscript maps of Newfoundland and Labrador in libraries and archives in Newfoundland, other parts of Canada, the United States, and England' - Alberta Auringer Wood) {November, 2001}
• Canada. [Pages on the history of hydrography in Canada] (mounted by the Friends of Hydrography of the Canadian Hydrographic Service)
• Canada. 'State, Provincial, and County Atlases and County Landownership Maps of the United States and Canada' ("This list includes 2,708 map and atlas descriptions" - compiled by Roger S. Baskes and Marian Shaw; edited by Patrick A. Morris) {August, 2001}
• Canada. ' "You Will Readily Conjecture": the explorations and maps of Peter Pond' (Derek Hayes - Mercator's World, 7:2, 2002) {March, 2002}

United States (general, people and themes):-

• United States. 19th Century Changes in the U.S.-Mexico Border / Annotated Map Bibliography (Paul Bary, 1991)
• United States. 'American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850' (numerous short but useful texts, e.g. via 'Geographical Area', accompanying a large selection of images - New York Public Library) {December, 2002}
• United States. 'Bird's Eye Views' (illustrated article by Tom McKay, in: Exchange (newsletter published by the Office of Local History at the Wisconsin Historical Society), 29, 2 (1987) - updated 2002) {July, 2002}
• United States. 'Blinded Giant: the role of maps in Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg campaign' (Earl B McElfresh - Mercator's World 5:3, 2000)
• United States. Cadastral surveys. 'The Triumph of Geometry over Geography' (Norman J.W. Thrower - Mercator's World, 7:4, 2002) {July, 2002}
• + United States. 'Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective' [Library of Congress exhibition] {October 2000}
• United States. Census Atlases: Presenting the Nation's Cultural Geography (Donald C. Dahmann - for Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• United States. Central Pacific Railroad Maps (Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum)
• United States Cities (commentary on a sheet from the City Atlas of Newport, Rhode Island (1876) - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, 1999) {March, 2002}
• United States. Fire Insurance - see Themes: Fire Insurance
• United States. George Washington: Surveyor and Mapmaker (Edward Redmond - Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• * United States. 'Grille, ville et territoire, aux Etats-Unis: un quadrillage de lespace pour une pensée spécifique de la ville et de son territoire' (Catherine Maumi - doctoral thesis: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1997)
• United States. 'Historical Geography, American & Virginian' (Gordon W. Miller, 2001)
• United States. History of Mapping the Civil War [Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division - a complex mini-site "Reproduced from Civil War Maps: An Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress compiled by Richard W. Stephenson, 2nd ed. (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989)"]
• United States. History of Railroads and Maps (after Andrew M. Modelski - Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• + United States. 'Hitting the road: Road Maps From the Map Collection of Yale University Library' {November 2000}
• United States. Landownership (commentary on an 1874 map from the Illustrated Atlas Map of Menard County, Illinois- Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, 1999) {March, 2002}
• + * United States. 'Language of the Land: Journeys into Literary America' [Library of Congress exhibition] {October 2000}
• United States. 'Lay of the land: relief representation in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Part 1: the nineteenth century' (Norman J W Thrower - Mercator's World 6:3, 2001) {May, 2001}
• + United States. Lewis & Clark. 'Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America' (Library of Congress exhibition: online, 2002; actual, 2003) {November, 2002}
• United States. Mapping our Place: the 19th century county atlas (University of Wisconsin-Parkside)
• United States. Mapping the National Parks (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• United States. Maps of National Historic Sites, Memorials, Military Parks and Battlefields [an extensive alphabetical list of links - the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin] {October 2000}
• United States. Mason-Dixon line (a note from about.com) {January, 2001}
• United States. National Archives & Records Administration (NARA). 'Cartographic and Architectural Records' (guide to online resources ['over 15 million maps, charts, aerial photographs, architectural drawings, patents, and ships plans'] and to searching the NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL)) {May, 2002}
• United States. NOAA. The Coast Survey 1807-1867. Volume 1 of the History of the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (a 623-page book by Captain Albert E. Theberge, 1998)
• United States. NOAA. 'A History of NOAA, Being a Compilation of Facts and Figures Regarding the Life and Times of the Original Whole Earth Agency' (Eileen L Shea, 1987; edited by Skip Theberge, 1999)
• United States. NOAA. 'Historical Map and Chart Collection' (a large collection of images of charts, maps and plans, mostly 19th century) {November 2000}
• United States. NOAA. 'The Coast and Geodetic Survey Annual Reports 1844-1910: Bibliography' (with author and chronological indexes, and with notes on the 'Functions of the Coast Survey and the Coast and Geodetic Survey', e.g. those on Cartography) {January, 2002}
• United States. 'Printed maps of the United States 1778-1800' [with checklist of 117 maps] (MapForum 1, January 1999)
• United States. Railroad History Database Project (Adrian Ettlinger and Holly Hansen) {October 2000}
• United States. Soils (select 'Soils.enl' for a database, searchable by keyword, of soil maps published prior to 1950 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook's nationwide collection - compiled by Jessica McEachern under the supervision of David Allen) {December, 2002}
• United States. 'State, Provincial, and County Atlases and County Landownership Maps of the United States and Canada' ("This list includes 2,708 map and atlas descriptions" - compiled by Roger S. Baskes and Marian Shaw; edited by Patrick A. Morris) {August, 2001}
• United States. Transportation [images from the Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection] {October 2000}
• United States. 'U.S. General Land Office Survey Plat Maps' (illustrated article by Deborah Kmetz, in: Exchange (newsletter published by the Office of Local History at the Wisconsin Historical Society), 37, 3 (1995) - updated 2002) {July, 2002}

• United States - Arizona. 'Index to maps appearing in Arizona Highways, 1925-1990' (Jack D Mount) {January, 2001}
• United States - California [as an island] [P. Rigsbee - with links to texts and images elsewhere] {October 2000}
• United States - California. 'California as an Island' (a selection of maps, with some thumbnails - Jonathan Potter Ltd) {February, 2002}
• United States - California. 'California as an Island' (Philadelphia Print Shop) {November, 2001}
• United States - California. 'Dynamic mapping of urban regions: growth of the San Francisco/Sacramento region' (Cindy Bell, William Acevedo, Janis Taylor Buchanan)
• United States - Cape Fear. 'The charting of Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1525-1800 [12 entries] (Ashley Baynton-Williams - MapForum 6, July 1999)
• United States - Carolinas. 'Printed charts of the Carolinas' [lists 46 charts, 1648-1799] (MapForum 9, 2000)
• United States - Carolinas. 'Printed maps of the Carolinas: 1590-1800' [164 entries] (MapForum 4, April 1999)
• United States - Chicago. 'Checklist of Chicago Maps in the Newberry Library' (Patrick A. Morris, 1999-)
• United States - Cleveland. 'The original surveys of Cleveland' (Samuel J Baker, 1884 [sic])
• United States - Cleveland (David Brose: 'Explorations' from Encyclopedia of Cleveland History {December 2000}
• United States - Cleveland. 'A brief history of city directory maps of Cleveland, Ohio' (William Barrow) {January, 2002}
• United States - Connecticut Highways: Historical Overview
• +United States - Florida. 'Florida, the Making of a State: a Cartographic Adventure' (46 entries in the Exhibition Checklist; see also texts about the discovery of Florida, etc., e.g. '"Marvellous countries and lands": Notable Maps of Florida, 1507-1846' (by Ralph Ehrenberg); 'Historical Data Concerning Florida'; 'The Gulf Stream' (by James C. Hobbs); and the Bibliography - exhibition, curated by James A. Findlay, January-March 2002, Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Broward County Libraries Division (Ft. Lauderdale)) {August, 2002}
• United States - Florida. 'Navigating Fisheating Creek' (Louis de Vorsey - Mercator's World 7:5, 2002) {September, 2002}
• United States - Georgia - Savannah. 'A land of new beginnings: James Edward Oglethorpe's map of an American Utopia' (Louis de Vorsey - Mercator's World 7:3, 2002) {April, 2002}
• United States - Iowa. 'Fire Insurance Maps of Cities and Towns' (a union list of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps - State Historical Society of Iowa) {July, 2002}
• * United States - Iowa. 'Romantic and Modernist Images on Twentieth Century Iowa Official State Highway Maps' (Slide Set #28: commentary by Daniel Block - Newberry Library) {December, 2002}
• United States - Long Island maps and their makers - with links to 'Bibliography of Long Island Geology and Hydrology' and 'Long Island Cartobibliography' (David Yehling Allen)
• + United States - Louisiana. 'So Much More Than Just a Map - Perspectives on Louisiana and the New World' [Louisiana State Museum] {October 2000}
• + United States - Maine. 'Maine Wilderness Transformed: Timber, Sporting, and Exploitation of the Moosehead Lake Region' ( Matthew H. Edney, 1997 - Osher Map Library exhibition) {October 2000}
• United States - Michigan. Key Dates in Michigan Transportation Map History (Michigan Department of Transportation)
• + United States - Michigan. Mapping Michigan (Clarke Historical Library exhibit, Central Michigan University, 1998)
• United States - Mississippi. 'John Law and the Mississippi Scheme' (MapForum 5, May 1999) [see also 'Oddities: The Isle of Mad-Head' in the same issue]
• United States - Missouri River. 'Brief Bibliography of early Missouri River cartographic sources' (W. Raymond Wood, University of Missouri - part of the Placename Survey of the United States) {December, 2001}
• + United States - New England. The Cartographic Creation of New England (Matthew H. Edney - Osher Map Library exhibition)
• United States - New England. 'The charting of New England' [with a checklist of 102 items, 1646-1785] (Ashley Bayton-Williams - MapForum 2, February 1999)
• + United States - New England. The "Percy Map". The Cartographic Image of New England and Strategic Planning during the Revolutionary War: An examination of the Douglass-Jefferys-Green Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England (1755) - with a cartobibliography (Matthew H. Edney - Osher Map Library exhibition)
• United States - New England. 'Printed Maps of New England to 1780. Part I: 1548-1624; Part II: 1630-1660' (MapForum 13 [September 2001]) {September, 2001}; Part III: 1670-1700 (MapForum 14 [February 2002]) {February, 2002}; Part IV: 1700-1780 (MapForum 15 [April 2002]) {April, 2002}
• United States - New England.'Reisbeschrijvingen Nieuw-Nederland' (click on the title-screen map and you are taken to Visscher's Novi Belgii, which has at least 14 hotspots leading to explanatory notes, in Dutch - forming part of 'De Wereld van Peter Stuyvesant')
• United States - New Hampshire. 'Conflict on the Connecticut' (Alec McEwen - Mercator's World 6:5, 2001 - about the Republic of Indian Stream, in an area claimed by both the US and Canada) {September, 2001}
• United States - New York City. 'From van der Donck to Visscher: a 1648 view of New Amsterdam' (Joep M J de Koning - Mercator's World 5:4, 2000)
• United States - New York State Historical Maps (David Yehling Allen)
• United States - New York State. 'Annotated Bibliography of Selected New York State Maps: 1793-1900' (Jo Margaret Mano)
• United States - New York State. Bibliographies from Stony Brook University (a series of bibliographies searchable by keyword, with numerous links to digital images, see: 2. nysmaps.enl - 'a fairly comprehensive bibliography of New York State Maps produced before 1830' [David Allen]; 3. Specmaps.enl - 'a list of New York State maps in the Dept. of Special Collections at Stony Brook University. Approximately 1700 maps, mostly published between 1830 and 1940' [David Allen with additions and revisions by Kristen Nyitray]; 4. Digimaps.enl - 'database with links to digital images of New York State Maps on the Web. Searchable version of Map Collection's "New York State Map Pathfinder"' [Jessica McEachern under supervision of David Allen]; 5. Docmaps.enl - '2,196 maps from New York State legislative documents prior to 1940' [Jessica McEachern under supervision of David Allen]; 6. Soils.enl - '1,492 soil maps published prior to 1950 from Stony Brook's nationwide collection' [Jessica McEachern under supervision of David Allen]) {December, 2002}
• United States - Oregon. 'Glimpses of Pioneer Life: the survey plat and the Government Land Office in Oregon' (James V. Walker - Mercator's World, 7:2, 2002) {March, 2002}
• United States - Pennsylvania. 'Descriptive List of the Map Collection: Manuscript Group 11' (brief descriptions of 953 items in 8 categories, reproducing and supplementing: Martha L. Simonetti, Descriptive List of the Map Collection in the Pennsylvania State Archives {click on the title to access the listing} (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1976) - Pennsylvania State Archives) {August, 2002}
• United States - Pennsylvania. 'Record Groups' (Pennsylvania State Archives - providing details of some classes relating to cartography, especially No. 17) {August, 2002}
• United States - Pennsylvania. 'References for historical maps of Pennsylvania' (Harold Cramer) {August, 2002}
• United States - Southeast. 'Checklist of printed maps of the South-East of America' [1548-1798 - 82 items] (MapForum 7, September 1999)
• United States - Southeast. 'Non-existent lake in the American Southeast' (Philadelphia Print Shop) {November, 2001}
• United States - Southwest. 'Crossroads of Empire: early printed maps of Texas and the Southwest'
• + United States - Southwest. 'Maps of the Pimería: early cartography of the Southwest' [University of Arizona Library - Jack Mount] {October 2000}
• United States - Southwest. 'Soldier, Scientist, Map Maker: William H. Emory and the mapping of the American Southwest' (Norman J. Thrower - Mercator's World 7:6, 2002) {November, 2002}
• United State - Texas. Texas General Land Office Map Collection (searchable database of 72,003 records [July 2002], with option to 'Display only maps with image available') {July, 2002}
• United States - Texas. 'The handbook of Texas online' (searchable encyclopedia, including a brief section entitled 'Maps' {November, 2001}
• United States - Texas. 'Selected Books on Exploration and Mapping of Texas' (Special Collections Division, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries - Katherine Goodwin) {March, 2002}
• United States - Virginia. 'Historical Geography, American & Virginian' (Gordon W. Miller, 2000)
• United States - Virginia. 'Hugh Paul Taylor, Historian and Mapmaker' (David Scott Turk (from West Virginia History, Volume 56, pp. 43-55)) {November 2000}
• + United States - Virginia. Mapping Virginia (Library of Virginia, 1999)
• United States - Washington, D.C. ('City Beautiful: the 1901 plan for Washington, D.C.' - Julie K. Rose, 1996) {January, 2001}
• United States - Washington, D.C. 'Plans of Washington, D.C. 1792-1800' (with a checklist, based on Coolie Verner's listing in Imago Mundi 23 (1969) - MapForum 12, May 2001) {May, 2001}
• United States - Washington State. 'Digital Bibliography of the Geology and Mineral Resources of Washington' (includes material from 1798; a search on 'maps' produced 1905 records - by Connie J. Manson [updated monthly]) {January, 2002}
• United States - West. "Map to Illustrate [Hosea B.] Horn's Overland Guide to California and Oregon" (commentary on the map published in New York by Colton in 1852 - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, 1999) {March, 2002}
• United States - Wisconsin. 'County Atlases' (article by Tom McKay, in: Exchange (newsletter published by the Office of Local History at the Wisconsin Historical Society), 31, 2 (1989) - updated 2002) {July, 2002}
• United States - Wisconsin. 'Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps 1867-1950' (illustrated article by Tim Ericson, in: Exchange (newsletter published by the Office of Local History at the Wisconsin Historical Society), 27, 3 (1985) - updated 2002) {July, 2002}
• United States - Wisconsin. 'State Highway Maps' (article by Tom McKay, in: Exchange (newsletter published by the Office of Local History at the Wisconsin Historical Society), 32, 4 (1990) - updated 2002) {July, 2002}
• United States - Wisconsin. 'U.S. General Land Office Surveyors' Field Notes' (illustrated article by Deborah Kmetz, in: Exchange (newsletter published by the Office of Local History at the Wisconsin Historical Society), 36, 3 (1994) - updated 2002) {July, 2002}

America (South & Central)

• + 'Cartes d'Amérique centrale et d'Amérique du sud' [Part of: 'Cartes des Amériques dans les Collections de la Bibliothèque Albert Ier, Bruxelles', 1992 - with a description and bibliography for each map] {October 2000}
• Amazon. 'Teixeira's act of possession' (Michael Layland - Mercator's World 1:2, 1996)
• Ecuador (list of early maps) (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador - click on 'lista de los mapas') {January, 2001}
• Galápagos Islands: history and cartography (John Woram)
• Galápagos Islands. 'The year of the tortoise: dating the maps of the Galápagos Islands' (John Woram) {May, 2001}
• Galapagos. 'History and Discovery on the Web' (by John Woram, explaining the author's innovative Galápagos maps website - Society for the History of Discoveries annual meeting, September 2001) {February, 2002}
• Gulf of Mexico. 'The working-method of the new cartographers: the Gulf of Mexico and Spanish sources, 1696-1718', by Monique Pelletier (Terrae Incognitae 34 (2002), 60-72) {November, 2002}
• Latin American Resources {May, 2002}
• Le Maire's Strait. 'In the name of the son: Isaac Le Maire fought to credit his son Jacob as the discoverer of the Le Maire Strait' (Brian Hooker - Mercator's World 3:4, 1998)
• Mexico. 19th Century Changes in the U.S.-Mexico Border / Annotated Map Bibliography (Paul Bary, 1991)
• + Middle America. Maps associated with the Relaciones Geográficas (1578-86) [Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the University of Texas at Austin] {October 2000}
• Nicaragua. 'Maps of Nicaragua 1965-1987: a bibliography' (Claire Englander, 1989)

Asia

• Arabia. 'The road to Ubar' [on the early mapping of Arabia] (Nicholas Clapp - Mercator's World 3:5, 1998)
• Aral Sea. Der Aralsee - Ein Gewässer im Wandel der Zeit (Manfred Spreafico) {November 2000}
• Ceylon. 'Ancient References to Sri Lanka' (excerpt from Twentieth Century impressions of Ceylon, ed. Arnold Wright) {January, 2001}
• + 'China in Maps: 16th-19th Century' [exhibition at the Special Collection of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library, 1997] {October 2000}
• China. Antique Maps Database (a catalogue, searchable by title, mapmaker or geographic region - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) {September, 2002}
• China. 'Chinese cartographic materials - a bibliography' (select links for history of cartography titles in English and Chinese, for 'World maps in ancient China' (in Chinese), and for 'Links to web sites for cartography in China' (in English - apparently just modern mapping) - Wang Ziqiang and Zhang Hong ) {December, 2002}
• China. 'Classified Bibliography of Reference Works on Chinese Historical Geography' (select 'Cartograpy', 'Maps', Atlases' - Thomas H Hahn) {December, 2001}
• + China. Early Maps of China & Japan (exhibition at the Yale Map Collection, 1997, from the Dr. Jonathan T. Lanman collection - a few images) {November 2000}
• + China. 'How Rome Went to China' [part of the Library of Congress's Vatican Exhibition] {October 2000}
• China. Jingban tianwen quantu (about a Chinese world map of c.1780-90 - by Richard J. Smith, Rice University, with an enlargeable image of the map) {May, 2001}
• China. 'Mapping "All under Heaven": Jesuit cartography in China' (Daniel Kane - Mercator's World 4:4, 1999)
• China. Recent progress in the study of early Chinese maps: a report by Dr Wang Jun {April, 2001}
• China. 'Répertoire des Cartes de Shanghai - Shanghai Map inventory' (Institut d'Asie Orientale, Lyon) {March, 2002}
• China. 'The Rise and Fall of 15th Century Chinese Seapower' (by Michael L. Bosworth, 1999) {March, 2002}
• East Indies. 'Atlas Mutual Heritage' ('a data-bank [in English] providing a systematic survey of VOC [Dutch East India Company] trading posts and settlements and illustrative material of these locations') {March, 2001}
• + East Indies. Dutch East India Company (Uit de kaartenwinkel van de VOC: Catalogus van zeekaarten van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie in de Collectie Bodel Nijenhuis, by D. de Vries, 1996) {March, 2001}
• * India. An interview with Sumathi Ramaswamy (Recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship and the ACLS Burkhardt Residential Fellowship - discussing her project: "Body Politics: Maps and Modernity in India". Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Fall 2001 Newsletter, pp.3-4){February, 2002}
• India. Mapping an Empire: The Geographic Construction of British India, 1765-1843, by Matthew Edney (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997) - 'Unpublished Primary Sources, by Archive' {May, 2001}
• Japan. 'Antique Map Digital Image Archives' (notes, in English and Japanese, about seven sites showing early maps of Japan, some with indexes and bibliographies - Kazuko Sakaguchi: in Reischauer Institute Newsletter Tsushin 8, 1, Spring 2002 - with a summary on the Duke University site) {July, 2002}
• Japan [article in Japanese] (illustrated with low resolution maps - Hokkaido University) {December, 2002}
• Japan. George Beans Collection of Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Period (University of British Columbia)
• Japan. How the Japanese of the Edo Period perceived the Ogasawara Islands (Tanaka Hiroyuki)
• Japan. 'Map Resources in Japan' (a brief list, last updated in 1997, with links to some relevant pages in Japanese) {March, 2002}
• Japan. [Maps from the Ashida Collection, Meiji University] (select the 2nd, 3rd and 4th bullets for carto-bibliographies - all in Japanese) {April, 2002}
• * Jerusalem.'Constructing Jerusalem' (includes a [theoretical] chapter on 'Mapping Jerusalem' - Keith W. Whitelam, Department of Religious Studies, University of Stirling) {November, 2001}
• Jerusalem in old maps and views (Government of Israel, 1999)
• Jerusalem. 'The story of the maps' (a six-part historical text, with 'sources', accompanying a gallery of images - the Jewish National and University Library and the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) {December, 2002}
• + 'Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia of History' (Harold L. Osher, et al., 1996 - Osher Map Library exhibition) {October 2000}
• Korea. Hendrick Hamel (1653-1666), the explorer of Korea (Henny Savenije) {July, 2002}
• Korea through western cartographic eyes (Henny Savenije)
• Lebanon. 'Maps and the historical topography of Beirut' (Michael F Davie, from Berytus 1987)
• Madaba Map (Government of Israel, 1999)
• Madaba Map (Michele Piccirillo - Franciscan Archaeological Institute). [Also on John Abela's site]
• Southeast Asia. 'Census, Map, Museum' [wide-ranging, with particular reference to Southeast Asia] (Benedict Anderson - excerpts from Imagined Communities, 1991)
• Southeast Asia. Early Southeast Asian Geographic Thought (Thomas Suarez, 1999)
• Troy. Troja und die Troas (Dietrich Willers) {November 2000}

Australia and Oceania

• Australia. Dutch discoveries ('They set sail from Holland' - Cari Jansen) {October 2000}
• Australia. 'European pre-Cook Voyages to Australia and Environs from the 16th to the 18th Century' (a bibliographical essay by Annette Zerrenthin, 1997)
• Australia. [Excerpts about the grid plan] (from Paul Carter, The Road to Botany Bay, 1987)
• + Australia. The George Raper Collection (online exhibition of a midshipman with the First Fleet - National Library of Australia) {February, 2001}
• New Zealand. A large collection of papers and book extracts by Brian N Hooker [a rich source for the history and cartobibliography of NZ and the southern continent] {October 2000}
• New Zealand. 'A note on the two "New Zealands": a draft' (Robin J Watt - MapForum 9, 2000)
• Tuamotu Archipelago. 'Discovered but not revealed: Magellan's "Unfortunate Islands" ' (Brian Hooker - Mercator's World 7:6, 2002) {November, 2002}
• see also People: Cook

Europe

• Alps. 'Die Kartographie im Deutschen Alpenverein' (11-page article by Kurt Brunner, in German) {February, 2002}
• Alps - see also under Austria, and Switzerland in this section, and under Pfyffer in People
• Austria. 'Erste grossmassstäbige Gletscherkarten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Hohen Tauern' (15-page article by Kurt Brunner, in German with English abstract, from Salzburger Geographische Arbeiten, Vol. 36, pp.7-21, 2000) {February, 2002}
• Baltic Sea. Russian Cartography of the Baltic Sea: Eighteenth Century: 'Atlas of the Baltic Sea' by Aleksei Nagaev, 1757 (Pellervo Kokkonen - collation, bibliography and images) {October 2000}
• Belgium. Belgian Literature: History of Cartography (covering 1997-9, by Hossam Elkhadem - Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER) {April, 2002}
• + Belgium. Flemish surveyors. The Measurers: a Flemish image of mathematics in the sixteenth century (Jim Bennett , Museum of the History of Science, Oxford)
• Belgium. 'Historique de l'Institut géographique national' (J. Dewinter - with a link to 'Quelques dates importants') {November, 2002}
• Belgium. [Plans by P-C Popp, with analysis] (partly in English) {August, 2001}
• British Isles Map Guide (prepared by the dealer Richard Nicholson for collectors, this contains a considerable amount of bibliographical and historical information) {November 2000}
• * British Isles. 'Cartographies: British Fiction and Mapping, 1700-1817' (Lisa Blansett)
• British Isles. 'The Communications' Mapping of British Towns' (David Smith - MapForum 12, May 2001) {May, 2001}
• British Isles. Public Record Office Information Leaflets (select from a range of subjects, e.g. Admiralty Charts, Canals, Enclosure Maps, 'Maps', Ordnance (Board of), Ordnance Survey, Tithe Records) {April, 2002}
• * British Isles - Britain. 'Landscape and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Britain' (course notes by Lisa M. Zeitz, University of Western Ontario - one section entitled 'Mapping Ideas', after 1998) {February, 2002}
• * British Isles - England. ' "Upon the Suddaine View": State, Civil Society and Surveillance in Early Modern England' (by Swen Voekel, from Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998))
• British Isles - England and Wales (bibliographical commentary on images of all the plates from Thomas Badeslade and William Henry Toms Chorographia Britanniæ, 1742, with notes on the variant states - Alan Yates) {November, 2002}
• British Isles - England & Wales. Canals. 'Waterways of England and Wales: their history in maps' (outline maps and commentary, 'pre-1750' and then for each decade to 1950 - Michael L Stevens) {September, 2001}
• British Isles - Great Britain. 'The Roman Map of Britain' (a multi-page site, on the place-names of the British section of the 'Ravenna Cosmography' - Thomas G. Ikins) {November, 2001}
• British Isles - Hampshire. 'Old Hampshire mapped' (each map with accompanying notes and bibliography, indexes, gazetteers, feature details, etc. - a highly imaginative site - Jean and Martin Norgate, 1996-99) {March, 2001}
• * British Isles - Ireland. Partial Views: Shakespeare and the map of Ireland (by Bernhard Klein, from Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998))
• British Isles - Isle of Man. Cartobibliography of maps of the Isle of Man (F Coakley)
• British Isles - Jersey (index to the 2000 names of proprietors on Hugh Godfray's 'Map of the Island of Jersey', 1849) {March, 2002}
• British Isles - London. 'The Edwin C. Bolles Collection: A Digital Archive on the History and Topography of London' (a large and complex site, including 19th century maps and 17-19th century prints. "A comprehensive and integrated collection of sources and resources on the history and topography of London. [Historical] Texts, images, and maps in the Bolles collection are all interconnected. The digitized maps are linked to each other, to relevant source texts, and to illustrations of the locations as they appeared at the time or at present." Tisch Library, Tufts College) {May, 2002}
• British Isles - London. Greenwood's map (1827) [including clickable place-name index - Bath Spa University College] {October 2000}
• British Isles - London. 'Mr. Charles Booth's Inquiry' (a research project at the London School of Economics devoted to his survey into life and labour in London) {January, 2001}
• British Isles - London. 'Victorian Dictionary' (search, e.g. for 'map', for references in reproduced texts about London - Lee Jackson) {December, 2002}
• British Isles - Scotland. 'Charting the Nation: maps of Scotland and associated archives, 1550-1740' (2,200 images, with extensive historical commentary [the final total, for later in 2002, is expected to be 3,500 images]) {May, 2002}
• British Isles - Scotland. 'The Early Cartography of Renfrewshire to 1864' (John N Moore, 2000 - a full-scale carto-bibliography)
• British Isles - Scotland. Timothy Pont's mapping of Scotland in the late 16th century (a comprehensive examination and footnoted analysis of the maps, featuring biographical information, notes on the maps' research value on themes such as towns, place-names and architecture, assistance with handwriting and symbols, and a detailed bibliography. All this is tied in to high resolution images of all 77 maps and selected highlights - National Library of Scotland) {August, 2001}
• British Isles - Scotland - Edinburgh. 'The Barker Panorama (Old Edinburgh by Robert Barker)' (images of the panorama begun in 1796 and explanatory text about panoramas in general - Edinburgh Virtual Environment Centre) {July, 2002}
• * British Isles - Wales. A Map of Greater Cambria (by Philip Schwyzer, from Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998)).
• * British Isles - Wales. Civilizing Wales: Cymbeline, Roads and the landscapes of early modern Britain (Garrett Sullivan, from Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998))
• British Isles - Wales. 'Lewis Morris and William Morris' Sea Charts' (commentary on the charts of the Welsh coast: 25 from Lewis Morris (1748) and 32 from William Morris (1801) - National Library of Wales) {May, 2002}
• British Isles - Wales. 'Tithe Maps of Wales at the National Library of Wales' {January, 2001}
• Croatia. 'Eine neu entdeckte Karte von Kroatien von Johann Christoph Müller' (by Antal András Deák) {May, 2002}
• Croatia. Historical Maps of Croatia (commentaries on 92 maps: [click on one of the headings, e.g. 'Dutch', to reach a sub-menu] - Collectio Felbar) {May, 2002}
• Cyprus. The cartography of Cyprus through the ages (Andreas Hadjipaschalis, 1992)
• + Finland. 500 years on the map of Europe (Erkki Fredrikson - Museum of Central Finland, Jyväskylä) {October 2000}
• Finland. Finnish National Bibliography ("Maps from 1967-1976 and from 1987 onwards. Older material partly available (for instance parish maps)") {September, 2002}
• Finland. 'Maakirjakarttojen historiaa. 1600-luvun maakirjakartat - Geometriset maakirjat' (by Heikki Rantatupa, in Finnish, August 2000) {March, 2002}
• Finland. 'Suomalaisen maastokartografian kehityspiirteitä' (by Osmo Niemelä, in Finnish, Cartographic Society of Finland, March 2000) {March, 2002}
• France see Bibliothèque Nationale de France under Images of early maps: Large general sites
• France. Catalogue des fonds culterels numérisés [en France] (describing a number of digitisation projects in France involving early maps, most available only locally or via CD-ROM - selecting 'Recherche croisée', then 'Choisir un type de document' = 'carte' produced 45 hits, 'atlas' 11 and 'plan*' 404) {November, 2002}
• France. Famille Cassini (also sections on the history of the Etat Major and the Série Bleue - part of '2001: L'Odysée de la carte' - Institut Géographique National) {January, 2001}
• France - Paris. 'Inventory of the collection of maps of Paris, ca. l750-1900' (Brian Parshall, Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities)
• + France - Paris. 'An imperial capital: Baron Haussmann's transformation of Paris' (exhibition in the lobby of the British Library Map Library - MapForum 15 [April 2002]) {April, 2002}
• France - Voreppe (details and analysis from the 1759 Dupuy map) {April, 2001}
• Frisland. 'Frisland & other Zeno Brothers' mythical lands' (Philadelphia Print Shop) {November, 2001}
• Germany. Alpine Club. 'Die Kartographie im Deutschen Alpenverein' (11-page article by Kurt Brunner, in German) {February, 2002}
• Germany. 'Before the Nazis: maps as weapons in German nationalist propaganda' (Guntram H. Herb - Mercator's World 4:3, 1999)
• Germany. Kommission 'Geschichte der Kartographie' (Deutschland). 'Übersicht (Periode 1954 bis 1999)' {March, 2002}
• Germany. 'Map use in Berlin dailies before 1914' (illustrated article tracing map use through the 20th century - Wolfgang Scharfe, 1999) {July, 2002}
• Germany. 'Weather in German newspapers' (illustrated article tracing the history from 1880 - Wolfgang Scharfe, 1999) {July, 2002}
• + Germany - Berlin and Brandenburg. 'Katalog zur Ausstellung Berlin-Brandenburg im Kartenbild' extensive (illustrated) exhibition text, on which see first 'Inhalt' [contents of the 8 chapters and subsidiary sections] or click on 'Suchen' [search]; there is also a large bibliography - Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Freien Universität Berlin) {January, 2002}
• * Germany - Brandenburg. 'Autochthonous and heteronomous cartographic periods as methodologic approach in history of cartography: Brandenburg in the 15th to 18th centuries as an example' [with sections on Olof Hansson Svart, Jakob Paul v. Gundling and Franz Ludwig Güssefeld](Wolfgang Scharfe)
• Germany - Brandenburg. 'Die Entwicklung der geodätischen Grundlagen für die Kartographie und die Kartenwerke 1810-1945' (24-page article, in German, by Gert Krüger and Jörg Schnadt, from Vermessung Brandenburg) {February, 2002}
• Germany - Brandenburg. 'Die topographischen Kartenwerke des Landes Brandenburg von 1945 bis heute' (by Anita Neupert, accompanying the 2000 exhibition "Berlin-Brandenburg im Kartenbild") {February, 2002}
• + Germany - East Frisia. 'Kurzer Abriß der Geschichte der Ostfrieslandkarten' [Michael Recke - linked to a virtual exhibition] {October 2000}
• Germany- Eifel. 'Die Eifel auf Landkarten des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts' (Herbert Wagner) {December, 2002}
• Germany - Friedland. 'Die Stadt Friedland und ihre Umgebung in historischen Karten' (by Gyula Pápay) {May, 2002}
• Germany - Hannover. 'Die hannoversche Gradmessung' (about 10 short webpages on Carl Friedrich Gauß and the Hannover meridian survey) {December, 2002}
• Germany - Mecklenburg. 'Historische Informationssysteme für Mecklenburg' (by Gyula Pápay) {May, 2002}
• Germany - Mecklenburg. Cartographical Oriented Graphical System for the Exploration of the History of Mecklenburg and Vorpommern [but in German]. (Fraunhofer-Institute for Computer Graphics Rostock)
• Germany - Mecklenburg. 'Geschichte der Kartographie Mecklenburgs' (a chronology by Gyula Pápay et al.) {February, 2002}
• Greece. 'Venetians and Greeks - The Defense of Corfù: Cephalonia: cartography, description of the site, and security' and 'The War for Candia: Cartography, technicians, images of the territory' (' Viaggio virtuale tra le fonti storiche veneziane. Rotta: Venezia e il Levante (sec XV - sec XVIII) - Veniva Consortium, 1996) {December, 2002}
• 'The Gulf Stream' (by James C. Hobbs, accompanying the 2002 exhibition at the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Broward County Libraries Division (Ft. Lauderdale)) {August, 2002}
• Hungary. Kartográfiatörténet (a book-length study of the cartography of Hungary by István Klinghammer, Gyula Pápay and Zsolt Török, 1995) {December 2000}
• Hungary. 'Recent Publications on the History of Cartography in Hungary' (Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER) {April, 2002}
• Iceland. 'Antique maps of Iceland' (brief captions to nine maps [shown as thumbnails], 1590-1849) - The Icelandic Shopping Center) {March, 2002}
• Iceland on maps. (Short summary of the cartographic history of Iceland by Haraldur Sigurðsson)
• 'Italian History Index: Gateways to Historical Maps and Maps of Italy' (Serge Noiret, for the WWW-VL)
• Italy. 'Archivi in Rete: Elenco degli indirizzi dell'Amministrazione Archivistica e di alcuni Archivi di Stato online' (links to about 25 Italian archives engaged in mounting material on the web) {December, 2002}
• Italy. 'Atlas of Napoleonic Cartography in Italy' [1795-1815] (enter via the six footnoted chapters, or use the Table of Contents, which highlights (in blue) the original documents, including eight maps of north Italy and Elba, and R. Schouany's sketch book survey of the Piedmont Region, 1805-9, from the Archives de la guerre (SHAT) at Vincennes - a 'pilot project': Anne Godlewska, et al., Queen's University) {November, 2002}
• Italy. Istituto Geografico Militare (e.g. Storia; Biblioteca; Museo Strumenti) {December 2000}
• Italy. 'The "Lafreri-School" of Italian mapmakers circa 1544-1602' (Ashley Baynton-Williams - MapForum 3, March/April 1999)
• Italy. The Medici Archive Project ('Maps and mapmaking', one element of Documentary Sources for the Arts & Humanities, cites eight relevant documents, 16th-17th centuries) {May, 2002}
• + Italy - Rome [Library of Congress 'Vatican' exhibition - plans and views under, e.g. 'The City recovers', 'In the margins of the past', etc.] {October 2000}
• Italy - Rome. Inventory of the collection of the maps of Rome, ca.1550-1883 (Brian Parshall - Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities)
• + Italy - Rome. Urbs Roma. Master plans and the expansion of Rome 1870-2000: Ichnographic plans of the city / Piante iconografiche di Roma (exhibition at the Studium Urbis, Rome, December 2001-February 2002, comprising Exhibition text, Catalogue and Bibliography) {September, 2002}
• Italy - Venice. Jacopo de Barbari (five articles and book extracts by Giorgio Bellavitis, Piero Falchetta, Terisio Pignatti, Giandomenico Romanelli and Juergen Schulz - part of Piero Falchetta's 'Guida Multimediale'){February, 2001}
• + Malta. 'Mapping the Millennium: A Thousand Years of Maps from the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library' {October 2000}
• Netherlands (Abstracts of dissertations on various aspects of Dutch cartography, University of Utrecht, 1961- ) {March, 2001}
• Netherlands. Atlas Beudeker (explanatory text about the multi-volume atlas in the British Library) {January, 2001}
• Netherlands. The Dutch (carto-)bibliographic school (Jan Smits)
• Netherlands. Dutch publications (mostly history of cartography) (by Roelof Oddens, 2000 - Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER) {April, 2002}
• Netherlands. 'Explokart Research Project. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici by Peter van der Krogt' {August, 2002}
• Netherlands. 'Historisch Museum and the Atlas Van Stolk' (select, under 'Atlas Van Stolk' [in this English-text version] and then under 'Folders', e.g. No. 26 'Kaartenspel, ca 1600-1980', and No. 71 'The Netherlands put on the map', for brief summaries of the content of this largely non-cartographic compilation - Historisch Museum, Rotterdam) {August, 2002}
• Netherlands. Important Dutch map makers (Paulus Swaen)
• Netherlands. 'List of "Dutch" atlases up to 1880 and (partial) facsimiles thereof : primarily based on C. Koeman's "Atlantes Neerlandici"' [an online index to 'Koeman', with some additions] (Jan Smits). For an expanded listing see 'List of "Dutch" atlases up to 1940'
• Netherlands. 'The topographic record of The Netherlands 1800-1992 for sale' (Jan Smits - Cartographic Journal, 1993)
• Norway. Statens kartverk i historisk perspektiv (History of the National Mapping Agency, by Roald Aanrud, 1998) {December 2000}
• Poland. Polish Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland [select 'Articles' about the Museum's map collection] {October 2000}
• + Portugal. 'Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective' [Library of Congress exhibition] {October 2000}
• Russia. Historical cartography of the Altai Territory (west Siberia) (Barnaul State Pedagogical University)
• Russia. List of publications by Alexei V Postnikov {May, 2001}
• Russia. 'Putting previously inaccessible Russian maps of the 18th-19th century into scientific circulation' (N. Kotelnikova & L. Kildushevskaja - Liber Quarterly, 1998)
• Russia. Russian cadastral surveys before and after Peter the Great (Alexei Karimov, 1997)
• Russia. State, navy and the origin of Petrine forest cadastre (Alexei Karimov, 1998).
• Scandinavia. 'Nordenkart. De to første trykte nordenkartene, Ulm 1482 og Nürnberg 1493, er nylig innlemmet i Kartsamlingen' (illustrated commentary, in Norwegian, on the maps from the Ulm Ptolemy, 1482 and Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 - National Library of Norway) {January, 2001}
• Scandinavia. 'Northern Delights' (about the New York exhibition 'Scandia: Important Early Maps of the Northern Regions & Maps and Charts of Norway from the Collection of William B. and Inger G. Ginsberg', by Mel Mandell - Mercator's World, 7:4, 2002) {July, 2002}
• Scandinavia. Olaus Magnus, 'Carta Marina' [English translation of the legends] (Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek) {April, 2002}
• Scandinavia. 'Olaus Magnus: his map and his book - the 1539 map of Scandinavia explained' (Carol Urness - Mercator's World 6:1, 2001) {January, 2001}
• + Scandinavia and north polar regions. 'Terra Cognita - Discovering the World: Historical maps from A. E. Nordenskiöld's Collection' (text by Cecilia af Forselles-Riska, accompanying an exhibition, 2000. NB the link to the English version was not working May 2002){February, 2001}
• Silesia. 'Grenzland zwischen Ost und West-Schlesische Landkarten aus fünf Jahrhunderten' (notes, in German, by Manfred Spata, accompanying a 2000 exhibition in the Museum für schlesische Landeskunde im Haus Schlesien, Königswinter-Heisterbacherrott, from Grafschafter Bote 6 (June 2000) pp.12-13) {February, 2002}
• Spain. 'Cartografía de España en la Biblioteca Nacional: siglos XVI a XIX' (a catalogue [apparently of 1,629 entries] listing all the maps and charts, both printed and manuscript, covering Spain as a whole or in part, as well as plans and city views, with accompanying images) {November, 2002}
• "Spain Maps Her 'New World' " (David Buisseret - Encounters, Feb. 1992)
• + Spain. Maps of Spain from the Enggass Collection ( Peter M. Enggass, et al., 1998 - Osher Map Library exhibition) {October 2000}
• Spain. 'The Luso-Hispanic world in maps: a selective guide to manuscript maps to 1900 in the collections of the Library of Congress' (by John R. Hébert and Anthony P. Mullan) {February, 2001}
• Spain - Minorca. 'Separate printed maps of Mahon Harbour and St. Phillip's Castle 1700-1786' [with checklist of 81 maps] (MapForum 8, 1999)
• Svalbard [Spitsbergen] 'Mapping History (search for: history - on 20th century mapping; by Ann-Kristin Balto - Norsk Polarinstitutt, 2001)
• Sweden. 'Historical maps in the archives of National Land Survey Geometric Maps (Geometric Land Books), 1630 -1700 (1750)' (Select 'Swedish archives and maps') {October, 2001}
• Sweden. 'Maps and war - the Swedish experience during the Thirty Years War' (Björn Gäfvert, March 2001) {August, 2001}
• Sweden. 'Sveriges geometriska jordeböcker: Jordeboken A8' (in Swedish comprising sections entitled: De geometriska kartorna från 1630- och 1640-talen; Jordeböckernas manér och symboler; Notarum Explicatio; Jordeboken A8; Lantmätaren; Information om projektet) {October, 2001}
• Switzerland. 'Attaquer les Alpes. Kartographische Vermessung der Alpen im 19. Jahrhundert' (by David Gugerli and Daniel Speich; in: Bulletin ETH Zürich 284 (2002) pp. 48-51 - based on the same authors' Topografien der Nation [see below]) {May, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Bibliography on the history of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography' (Markus Oehrli for the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography) {December 2000}
• Switzerland. Bundesamt für Landestopographie/Office fédéral de topographie. 'Aus der Geschichte' (in German - also available in English and French) {December 2000} - {March 2002}
• Switzerland. Bundesamt für Landestopographie [Federal Office of Topography]. 'Le développement du Service topographique suisse' (by Francis Jeanrichard, in French, from Vermessung, Photogrammetrie, Kulturtechnik 4/2001, pp. 233-6) {February, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Franz Ludwig Pfyffers "Höhenflug" - Das Relief der Urschweiz (1762-1786)' (Andreas Bürgi and Madlena Cavelti Hammer - from Der Weltensammler, a special issue of Cartographica Helvetica, 1998) {November, 2000}
• Switzerland. 'Die Gemmi - Von der Verbindung zum Weg' (Klaus Aerni - from Der Weltensammler, a special issue of Cartographica Helvetica, 1998) {November, 2000}
• Switzerland. 'Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitung gestern und heute - Der Espace Mittelland, ein neuer Weg' (Thomas Wallner - from Der Weltensammler, a special issue of Cartographica Helvetica, 1998) {November, 2000}
• Switzerland. 'Das Grundbuch als Grund aller Pläne - Präzision und die Fiktion der Überschaubarkeit im Entstehungsprozess eines modernen Rechtsstaats' (by Daniel Speich, in German, from David Gugerli (ed.) Vermessene Landschaften. Kulturgeschichte und technische Praxis im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Zürich: Chronos, 1999) pp. 137-148) {February, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Der Hirtenknabe, der General und die Karte: Nationale Repräsentationsräume in der Schweiz des 19. Jahrhunderts' (by David Gugerli and Daniel Speich, in German, from WerkstattGeschichte 23, pp. 53-73) {February, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Karten für Reisende in das Berner Oberland' (Quirinus Reichen - from Der Weltensammler, a special issue of Cartographica Helvetica, 1998) {November, 2000}
• Switzerland. 'Kartographie und Bundesstaat. Zur Lesbarkeit der Nation im 19. Jahrhundert' (by David Gugerli, in German, from Andreas Ernst, Albert Tanner, Matthias Weishaupt (eds.), Revolution und Innovation: die konfliktreiche Entstehung des schweizerischen Bundesstaates von 1848, Vol. 1 Der Bundesstaat von 1848 (Zürich: Chronos Verlag 1998) pp.199-215) {February, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Kartographische Assemblagen einer vermessenen Schweiz' (by David Gugerli, in German, from Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Die Erfindung der Schweiz 1848-1998. Bildentwürfe einer Nation (Zürich: Chronos-Verlag, 1998), pp. 138-145) {February, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Das Planarchiv der eidgenössischen Linthkommission' (by Daniel Speich, in German, from Cartographica Helvetica 23, pp. 35-8) {February, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Les plans cadastraux du 19ème siècle dans le Jura: un travail de titan méconnu' (Jean-Paul Miserez; in: L'HOTA, revue publiée par l'Association pour la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine Rural Jurassien 13 (1989)) {May, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Politics on the Topographer's Table: The Helvetic Triangulation of Cartography, Politics, and Representation' (by David Gugerli, in English, from Timothy Lenoir (ed.), Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication (Stanford University Press, 1998) pp. 91-118) {February, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Präzisionsmessungen am geodätischen Fundament der Nation: Zum gesellschaftlichen Anforderungsreichtum einer vermessenen Landschaft' (by David Gugerli, in German, from Vermessene Landschaften. Kulturgeschichte und technische Praxis im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Zürich: Chronos, 1999) pp.1-16) {February, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Quellenkritik mit Landkarten. Vom "Canaris-Archiv" zur "Deutschen Heereskarte Schweiz" (by Martin Rickenbacher and Markus Oehrli, in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte 52, 1 (2002) pp. 1-27) {May, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Das Ringen um eine neue Gebietseinteilung in der Helvetik (1798-1803)' (Hans-Peter Höhener - from Der Weltensammler, a special issue of Cartographica Helvetica, 1998) {November, 2000}
• Switzerland. 'Scientific evaluation of a historical relief model of Central Switzerland (1762-1786)' [a photogrammetric analysis of the relief model by Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher, in the Gletschergarten Museum, Lucerne] {November, 2000}
• Switzerland. 'Die Strassenkarten von Pierre Bel' (Philipp von Cranach - from Der Weltensammler, a special issue of Cartographica Helvetica, 1998) {November, 2000}
• Switzerland. Topografien der Nation. Politik, kartografische Ordnung und Landschaft im19. Jahrhundert (by David Gugerli and Daniel Speich. Zürich: Chronos, 2002 - Table of Contents, summaries and Index to the book) {May, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Von den "abscheulichen Eisbergen" zu den blauen Gletschern des "Atlas Suisse" - Gletscher und Karte am Ende des 18.Jahrhunderts' (Heinz J. Zumbühl - from Der Weltensammler, a special issue of Cartographica Helvetica, 1998) {November, 2000}
• Switzerland. 'Wissenschaftlicher und touristischer Blick. Zur Geschichte der "Aussicht" im 19. Jahrhundert' (by Daniel Speich, in German, from Traverse 3/99) {February, 2002}
• Switzerland. 'Die wissenschaftlichtechnische Landschaft des jungen Bundesstaates' (by David Gugerli, in German, from a talk given in Zürich on 5 November 1998) {February, 2002}
• Switzerland - Zürich. 'Papierwelten: Eine historische Vermessung der Kartographie im Kanton Zürich des späten 18. und des 19. Jahrhunderts' (book-length study (125 pp.) in German on the cartography of Zürich by Daniel Speich, from ETH Preprints zur Kulturgeschichte der Technik 1998, nr.3, with the accompanying Illustrations) {February, 2002}
• Switzerland - the compiler is most grateful to Markus Oehrli for supplying the references above, and a number of other German-language entries as well
• Transylvania (online version of: 'Die beiden Ausgaben der "Chorographia Transylvaniae" von Johannes Honter' by Gedeon Borsa. In: Zeitschrift für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde (Köln-Wien, 1988) pp. 150-160) {December, 2002}

Polar regions

• Antarctic. 'Charting Imaginary Worlds: Pole Shifts, Ice Sheets, and Ancient Sea Kings: A Digression that Simply Got Out of Hand' (Sean Mewhinney - Aeon, 1999 - part 5 of his 'Minds in Ablation')
• Antarctic. 'A brief history of Antarctica' (Antarctic Connection) {January, 2001}
• 'Antarctic Philately: Dedicated to the stamps, postal history and heroic explorers of the great white continent and its surrounding islands' {January, 2001}
• Arctic (a links site, with a section on the Canadian Arctic, and a brief 'History' - Jack Lupic) {January, 2001}
• Arctic. ' "All is not gold that glistereth": Frobisher's fool's errand to the Arctic' (Stephen R Bown - Mercator's World 3:1, 1998)
• Arctic. American Society of Polar Philatelists. 'A series in the study of Arctic history and its related philately' (well illustrated text) {January, 2001}
• Arctic. 'Cartographic controversy: Albertin de Virga and the Far North' (Kirsten A Seaver - Mercator's World 2:6, 1997)
• [Bering Strait]. Der Berner Beitrag zur Entdeckung der Nordostpassage - Geographische Grillen oder die Hirngespinste müssiger und eingebildeter Stubengelehrter? (Thomas Klöti) {November 2000}
• Canadian Arctic. The Meta Incognita Project, 1990-1999 [Follow links to 'Cartography of the Northwest Passage Before Frobisher' and 'Cartography During and After the Voyages', part of studies on Martin Frobisher and his contemporaries - Canadian Museum of Civilization] {November 2000}
• Greenland. 'Hans Egede, "The Apostle of Greenland"' (reproducing three versions of the map - Sara Shannon, James Ford Bell Library) {December 2000}
• Greenland. 'Renewing the quest for Greenland: the Stefánsson, Resen, and Thorláksson Maps' (Kirsten A Seaver - Mercator's World 5:5, 2000)
• Polar Expeditions in Print and Microform in the University of Washington Libraries [a useful bibliography for the Arctic and Antarctica]
• Polar Exploration Timeline (with links) (Heritage Map Museum) {October 2000}

World

• The Atlas Blaeu-van der Hem (commentary by Peter van der Krogt and Erlend de Groot - Explokart Research Project) {February, 2001}
• Battista Agnese: portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, 1544 (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• + Catalan Atlas. Ciel & Terre. L'Atlas Catalan [in French]. (Bibliothéque Nationale de France)
• Catalan Atlas. 'La reconstrucción matemática del Atlas Catalán' (in Spanish and English - José Antonio Hurtado García) {January, 2001}
• Ebstorf Map (select 'Hintergrundinformationen' for 'Et mundus, hoc est homo', an illustrated essay by Martin Warnke accompanying details of the map with transcriptions (in Latin and German) of all the inscriptions and place-names) {March, 2001}
• Fra Mauro World Map [indexes to names and inscriptions] (Piero Falchetta)
• Hereford Mappamundi. 'Making a Mappamundi: the Hereford Map' by Scott D. Westrem (Terrae Incognitae 34 (2002), 19-33) {November, 2002}
• Hondius.'A newly discovered Hondius map (Jodocus Hondius 1603 map of the world)' (Paul E Cohen, Magazine Antiques, Jan. 1999) {October 2000}
• Mercator (the 16 legends accompanying the 1569 world map/chart (given only in German translation) - Wilhelm Krücken) {November, 2001}
• 'Qibla Maps' [Islamic word map/instrument for finding Mecca] (slide presentation by Waldo Tobler, 2001) {April, 2001}
• Qibla Maps. 'A Sine on the road to Mecca' (about Qibla maps by Dana Mackenzie in Science Observer (May-June 2001)) {April, 2001}
• Vinland Map - see under Themes
• Waldseemüller. 'The European Discovery of the Pacific - A Cartographic Mystery' (abridgement of a talk at the British Library in July 2001 about the 1507 Waldseemüller map: 'how did he come to represent the Pacific on his map a full decade before any European had actually seen the ocean?') {November, 2001}
• Waldseemüller. 'Library of Congress Acquires Only Known Copy of 1507 World Map Compiled by Martin Waldseemüller' (press release 23 July 2001) {August, 2001}
• 'World Maps 1200-1700: A Bibliography of Scholarship on Mappaemundi and Early World Maps' [Bibliographies and cartobibliographies by Jolanta T. Pekacz and Andrew C. Gow] {October 2000}:-
• Mappaemundi 1200-1500: single manuscripts
• Mappaemundi 1200-1500: in manuscripts
• Mappaemundi 1200-1500: on metal
• Fifteenth-century printed world maps
• Sixteenth-century printed world maps
• Seventeenth-century printed maps

Themes

• Accuracy. 'Verfahren zur Genauigkeitsanalyse für Altkarten' (160-page doctoral dissertation, comprising an accuracy analysis of old maps, by Dieter Beineke, in German, published as Schriftenreihe Studiengang Geodäsie und Geoinformation der Universität der Bundeswehr München, Heft 71, 2001. ISSN 0173-1009) {February, 2002}
• Admiralty Charts (Maps) (select relevant title - Public Record Office Information Leaflets) {April, 2002}
• * Allegorical Maps. 'Discovering the moral world: early forms of map allegory' (Franz Reitinger - Mercator's World 4:4, 1999)
• Amerindian. 'Shanawdithit's Story: Mapping the last days of the Beothuk' (Stephen R Bown - Mercator's World 5:5, 2000)
• * Ancient World (T. Corey Brennan - extended review for Bryn Mawr Classical Review of: James S. Romm, The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction (Princeton University Press, 1992)) {February, 2001}
• Ancient World (Sarah Pothecary - extended review for Bryn Mawr Classical Review of: Katherine Clarke, Between Geography and History: Hellenistic Constructions of the Roman World (Oxford University Press, 1999)) {February, 2001}
• Ancient World. 'Basic Conceptions of Cartography and Geography in Antiquity: The Making of the Map' (John Halkidis)
• Ancient World. 'The Roman Map of Britain' (a multi-page site, on the place-names of the British section of the 'Ravenna Cosmography' - Thomas G. Ikins) {November, 2001}
• Ancient World. 'Stumbling Through Gaul: Maps, Intelligence, and Caesar's Bellum Gallicum' (A.C. Bertrand - The Ancient History Bulletin 11.4 (1997)) {December 2000}
• Ancient World see also under Early epochs
• Astrolabes and maps (Evelyn Edson, 1998 - from Mapline)
• Astronomy see under Celestial
• 'Atlantic Neptune' - see under People: Des Barres
• Atlantis. The lost island of Atlantis (MapForum 11 [December 2000]) {December 2000}
• * Bible. 'Maps and Acts: a problem in cartography and exegesis' (Thomas O'Loughlin, 1998)
• 'Bird's Eye Views' (illustrated article by Tom McKay, in: Exchange (newsletter published by the Office of Local History at the Wisconsin Historical Society), 29, 2 (1987) - updated 2002) {July, 2002}
• Calendars (bibliography of cartographic calendars, most of which feature reproductions of early maps - Carla van de Geer for the Map Collection of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Utrecht) {January, 2001}
• Cartographic techniques. 'Ende der Schichtgravur auf Glas' [on scribing on glass plates in the Bundesamt für Landestopographie, 1953-2000] (Hans-Uli Feldmann, Topo 97 [2000] 16-17 - click on 'GlasD.pdf) {February, 2002}
• Carto-philately see under Philately
• * Cartouche. 'Taking possession: the cartouche as cultural text in eighteenth-century American maps' (G N G Clarke, 1988 - from Word and Image)
• Catalan Atlas. Ciel & Terre. L'Atlas Catalan [in French]. (Bibliothéque Nationale de France)
• 'The Catalan Atlas' (a text page with numerous embedded links to map details) and 'The Majorcan Cartographic School' (both Bibliothèque nationale de France) {February, 2001}
• Catalan Atlas. 'La reconstrucción matemática del Atlas Catalán' (in Spanish and English - José Antonio Hurtado García) {January, 2001}
• + Celestial [Follow links, via 'History', to Adler Planetarium's exhibits]
• Celestial. 'The Atlas Coelestis (1742) of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr' (bibliographical notes and references by Robert Harry van Gent, accompanying links to images of the 30 plates on other sites) {December, 2002}
• + Celestial. 'Ciel et Terre' (virtual exhibition of medieval ideas at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1998-99)
• Celestial. Die Welt, eine Augenweide : Transparente Landschafts- und Sternbilder von Franz Niklaus König (Thomas Klöti, 1996) {November 2000}
• Celestial. Franz Niklaus König: Celestial atlas (1826): The diaphanous "Atlas céleste" (plate 1-27, 30) (Municipal and University Library of Berne) {November 2000}
• + Celestial. "Goed Gezien: Tien Eeuwen Wetenschap in Handschrift en Druk" (part of an exhibition by E. Dekker, Leiden University Library) {April, 2001}
• Celestial. 'Heavenly Mathematics: Highlights of Cultural Astronomy' (course notes, with numerous links - Helmer Aslaksen) {March, 2002}
• Celestial. Historical Celestial Atlases on the Web (Robert H van Gent)
• Celestial. 'Mapping the Solar System' (Nick Kanas - Mercator's World, 7:1, 2002) {February, 2002}
• + Celestial. 'Out of This World. The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas: An Exhibition of Rare Books from the Collection of the Linda Hall Library' (William B. Ashworth, Jr, 1997)
• Celestial. 'Strange new worlds: the fixing of planetary place-names' (James L. Cambias - Mercator's World 3:2, 1998) {February, 2002}
• + Celestial. 'The Earth & the Heavens: The Art of the Mapmaker' [British Library exhibition, 1995] {October 2000}
• Celestial. 'The topography of the sky: celestial maps gave order to the universe' (Peter Whitfield - Mercator's World 2:5, 1997)
• Celestial. Tycho Brahe. Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica (1602) [Introduction by Ronald Brashear] {October 2000}
• Celestial - see also under People: Cellarius; and Eclipse; Greek astronomy; and Moon (below); as well as under History of Astronomy
• Cities. 'The cities of Blaeu's world' (Jenny Marie Johnson - Mercator's World 6:2, 2001) {March, 2001}
• * 'Cold War Popular Magazine Cartography' (Virtual Slide Set #1: commentary by Cyndy Hendershot and Antony Oldknow, including six, low res. maps - Newberry Library) {December, 2002}
• Compass roses
• Crime. 'Mapping crime: principle and practice' [with some history, e.g. 'Ancient history: Cartography and crime mapping'] (Keith Harries - National Institute of Justice, 1999)
• Curiosities. 'Aleph': Geographical Fun Atlas (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• Curiosities. 'California as an Island' (Philadelphia Print Shop) {November, 2001}
• Curiosities. 'Cartographic Curiosities. Odd, curious, and fanciful maps from the holdings of the Map Collection, Yale University Library'
• Curiosities. 'Maps with flaps: maps with printed overlays' (about 1759 battle maps of Quebec and Minden - MapForum 15 [April 2002]) {April, 2002}
• Curiosities. Prester John. 'The Kingdom of Prester John' (Philadelphia Print Shop) {November, 2001}
• Curiosities. 'The age of unreason: cartographic blunders of the 15th and 16th centuries' (Derek Nelson - Mercator's World 3:3, 1998)
• Curiosities. 'Modern Medieval Map Myths: The Flat World, Ancient Sea-Kings, and Dragons' (Michael Livingston, 2002 - StrangeHorizons.com) {July, 2002}
• Curiosities. The Wild Side of Geoarchaeology Page (offering links and setting the record straight about misuse of the Piri Reis (1513), Fine (1532) and Buache (1739) maps, in connection with Atlantis, ancient mapping of Antarctica, etc. - Paul V. Heinrich) {February, 2002}
• * Definitions of the word 'map', 1649-1996 (J H Andrews, 1998)
• Ebstorf Map (select 'Hintergrundinformationen' for 'Et mundus, hoc est homo', an illustrated essay by Martin Warnke accompanying details of the map with transcriptions (in Latin and German) of all the inscriptions and place-names) {March, 2001}
• Ebstorf World Map. 'Quellensammlung in neun Sprachen: mittelalterliche Weltkarten' (a complex and complicated site, in German, devoted to medieval cosmographical and geographical texts, which can be best accessed via its 'Index', featuring, inter alia., 'Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte' and Gervase of Tilbury's Otia imperialia - Hans Zimmermann) {August, 2002}
• Eclipse. James Ferguson's Machine for exhibiting the Time &c. of Solar Eclipses [Universal Magazine, July 1755] (MapForum 6, July 1999)
• + Eclipse. 'The shadow of the moon: an exhibition of solar eclipse mapping in the eighteenth century' (British Library) (Geoff Armitage - MapForum 7, September 1999)
• Ephemera - e.g. trade cards, advertisements - see the various issues of MapForum
• + Escape maps.'The MIS-X files: secret escape maps used by American POW's in the European Theater of the Second World War' (Brian M Wiprud - Mercator's World 3:1, 1998)
• Escape maps. 'US Cloth Maps of World War 2' (about the maps of the Army Air Force and the Naval Air Combat Intelligence-Hydrographic Office, with history, bibliography and 'map identification' details - John Rado) {February, 2001}
• Escape maps. 'Wall tiles and Free Parking: escape and evasion maps of World War II' [a British Library Map Library exhibition] (Debbie Hall - MapForum 4, April 1999)
• Escape maps. 'Where Do I Go From Here?' (on maps produced by the U.S. Aeronautical Chart Service and the N.A.C.I. Hydrographic Office, by Lewis Buttery in Neatline: Newsletter of the Texas Map Society, 4:1 (2001)) {September, 2001}
• Explokart Research Project. The Atlas Blaeu-van der Hem (commentary by Peter van der Krogt and Erlend de Groot) {February, 2001}
• Fakes. 'How to spot these fakes: identifying a new breed of counterfeit maps' (F J Manasek - Mercator's World 6:2, 2001; and letters in issue 6:4) {March, 2001}
• Fire Insurance. 'Checklist of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps in Branner Library' (covering California, Nevada and British Columbia - Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections, Stanford University) {July, 2002}
• Fire Insurance. 'How to Read Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps' (Geostat Center and Department of History, University of Virginia) {December 2000}
• Fire Insurance. Introduction to Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress (by Walter W Ristow) {December 2000}
• Fire Insurance. Links (useful links from 'Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet') {July, 2002}
• Fire Insurance. Links (see under 'Maps' - Metis Genealogy) {July, 2002}
• Fire Insurance. 'Sanborn and other fire insurance maps' (University of California, Berkeley) {November, 2001}
• Fire Insurance. 'Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps' (giving links to listings for separate states/regions, many of which provide subscriber-only access to the 660,000 items in ProQuest UMI's Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 - Michael John Neill - ancestry.com) {July, 2002}
• Fire Insurance. 'Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps 1867-1950' (illustrated article by Tim Ericson, in: Exchange (newsletter published by the Office of Local History at the Wisconsin Historical Society), 27, 3 (1985) - updated 2002) {July, 2002}
• Fire Insurance. 'Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: Bibliography and Other Web Sites' {December 2000}
• Fire Insurance. 'Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: a Brief History' (Chris Nehls - Geostat Center and Department of History, University of Virginia) {December 2000}
• Fire Insurance. 'Union list of Sanborn & other fire insurance maps' (to cover Alaska, the western states and Mexico - Western Association of Map Libraries) {July, 2002}
• Fire Insurance (Sanborn) see also under specific areas of the United States
• * Gender. 'The female landscape: the cartographic mismeasure of women' (Darby Lewes - Mercator's World 4:1, 1999)
• Geology. History of Geology and the Geosciences [Comité français d'Histoire de la Géologie (Cofrhigéo)] {October 2000}
• Geology. World geologic cartobibliography [mostly of recent works] (Mary Lynette Larsgaard, 1984)
• GIS applied to the history of cartography. 'Zur Anwendung der Methoden der Graphischen Datenverarbeitung, der Computerkartographie und der Geo-Informationssysteme in der historischen Kartographie und der historischen Geographie' (by Gyula Pápay) {May, 2002}
• 'GIS Use in History' (University of Redlands - last update November 2000) {May, 2002}
• Glaciers. 'Erste grossmassstäbige Gletscherkarten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Hohen Tauern' (15-page article by Kurt Brunner, in German with English abstract, from Salzburger Geographische Arbeiten, Vol. 36, pp.7-21, 2000) {February, 2002}
• Globes, and search this page [i.e. Ctrl + F] for glob
• + Greek astronomy (Library of Congress 'Vatican' exhibit, 1993)
• Guide Michelin. 'Treading all Over: The Little Red Guide Launched a Cartographic Publishing Empire' (Mel Mandell - Mercator's World 7:5, 2002) {September, 2002}
• 'Here be Dragons' (Erin C. Blake, 1999)
• Historical Atlases. 'Maps and history (the history of historical atlases)' (Jeremy Black - History Review, Sept. 1997)
• Historical maps
• * The History of Cartography. Volume 2, Book 3. Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies. (Introduction by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis)
• History of discoveries. 'The Age of Exploration Curriculum Guide' (a range of concise, linked entries on individuals and subjects, from the earliest times to Cook - Mariners' Museum, Newport News) {January, 2001}
• History of discoveries. 'The European Voyages of Exploration: the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries' (an extensive site, arranged by areas and themes, from the University of Calgary) {January, 2001}
• History of discoveries. 'Exploration and Historical Geography' (includes notes - not necessarily based on the best or most recent authorities - on: Cook, Eratosthenes, Humboldt, Islamic Geography, Marco Polo, Mason-Dixon Line, Prester John, Prince Henry the Navigator, Ptolemy, Ritter, T-O maps, Vespucci) {January, 2001}
• Islamic. 'al-Idrîsî. La Méditerranée au XIIe siècle' (a mini-site, with text and images relating to Islamic and western cartography - Bibliothèque Nationale de France) {July, 2002}
• Islamic. 'Muslim scientists, mathematicians and astronomers before European Renaissance, 700-1500 C.E.' (a large site with links to biographies of, e.g. al-Idrisi, by Dr A Zahoor)
• Islamic. 'Orienteering: Muslim travel and writers' (course reading list, see especially "Week 4. Travel and the search for wealth: medieval travel guides, gazetteers, and pirates' vade-mecums" - Richard Pennell) {March, 2002}
• Islamic. 'A Sine on the road to Mecca' (about Qibla maps by Dana Mackenzie in Science Observer (May-June 2001)) {April, 2001}
• Islamic. 'Qibla Maps' [Islamic world map/instrument for finding Mecca] (slide presentation by Waldo Tobler, 2001) {April, 2001}
• Islamic. [Note on maps accompanying al-Qazwini's "The Geography of Lands"] (letter from Karen Pinto to Mercator's World, Sept/Oct 2001) {February, 2002}
• Jesuit cartography. 'Mapping "All under Heaven": Jesuit cartography in China' (Daniel Kane - Mercator's World 4:4, 1999)
• Jigsaw Puzzles (leading to 'Jigsaw Puzzles: Early History' including a discussion of early jigsaw maps - Anne D. Williams) {March, 2002}
• + * Literature. 'Language of the Land: Journeys into Literary America' [Library of Congress exhibition] {October 2000}
• * Literature and Geography. 'A Bibliography of Secondary Texts Relating to Early Modern Literature and Geography' (Joanne Woolway Grenfell, from Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998))
• Longitude. 'English attack on the Longitude Problem' [with numerous links, e.g. to pages on the people concerned] (J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, 1997) {October 2000}
• Longitude and the Académie Royale [with numerous links, e.g. to pages on the people concerned] (J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, 1997) {October 2000}
• Magnetic Declination Charts for Historical Epochs (Robert H van Gent - under construction, September 2000)
• Map Collectors' Circle [author and subject indexes] (Paula Dryburgh - MapForum 5, May 1999)
• * 'Map Promotion in Early Modern Europe' (Slide Set #32: commentary by Christine Petto, including four, low res. maps - Newberry Library) {December, 2002}
• 'Map use in Berlin dailies before 1914' (illustrated article tracing map use through the 20th century - Wolfgang Scharfe, 1999) {July, 2002}
• Medical. John Snow's references and sites (UCLA, Department of Epidemiology)
• Medieval. "Africa Unbounded on an Unstudied European Mappamundi (c. 1450) and in Related Cartography" (talk outline about a partial mappamundi in the James Ford Bell Library - Scott D. Westrem, The City University of New York) {February, 2001}
• + Medieval. 'Ciel et Terre' (virtual exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1998-99)
• Medieval. 'The developing world: comparing medieval maps from around the globe' (Margaret Johnson- Hereford Cathedral, 1999) {February, 2001}
• Medieval. 'The Flat Earth: A Detailed Study of Personal Bias and Historical Thinking' (see particularly Chapter 8 'Entertaining Maps Relevant to the Discussion', illustrated with maps from Jim Siebold's site - Ethical Atheist) {August, 2002}
• Medieval. 'The Fourth Book of the Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes' (McCrindle's 1887 English translation with enlargeable drawings from the 1962 Paris edition - Andrew Wiesner) {January, 2001}
• Medieval. 'Quellensammlung in neun Sprachen: mittelalterliche Weltkarten' (a complex and complicated site, in German, devoted to medieval cosmographical and geographical texts, which can be best accessed via its 'Index', featuring, inter alia., 'Die Ebstorfer Weltkarte' and Gervase of Tilbury's Otia imperialia - Hans Zimmermann) {August, 2002}
• Medieval. 'The Roman Map of Britain' (a multi-page site, on the place-names of the British section of the 'Ravenna Cosmography' - Thomas G. Ikins) {November, 2001}
• Medieval see also 'Catalan Atlas', Ebstorf Map, etc. above, and under World
• Meteorology. 'Weather in German newspapers' (illustrated article tracing the history from 1880 - Wolfgang Scharfe, 1999) {July, 2002}
• Military. 'First World War, 1914-1918: Military Maps' (select relevant title - Public Record Office Information Leaflets) {April, 2002}
• Military. Historical map bibliographies [covering American Civil War, WWI, WW2, Korean War, Desert Storm] (Air University Library)
• Military. 'Maps in a time of war' (Joel Kovarsky - Mercator's World 7:3, 2002) {April, 2002}
• + Moon. 'The Face of the Moon - Galileo to Apollo: An Exhibit of Rare Books and Maps from the Collection of the Linda Hall Library' ( William B. Ashworth, Jr, 1989, 1996) {October 2000}
• Mountains - see under Alps
• National Mapping Agencies - links for 'online histories' (International Cartographic Association, Commission on the History of Cartography) {September, 2001}
• Navigation and navigational instruments
• Norse. 'Renewing the quest for Greenland: the Stefánsson, Resen, and Thorláksson Maps' (Kirsten A Seaver - Mercator's World 5:5, 2000)
• Nuremberg Chronicle. 'Hartman Schedel and the Nuremberg Chronicle' (Ashley Baynton-Wlliams - MapForum 6, July 1999)
• Panoramas. 'The Barker Panorama (Old Edinburgh by Robert Barker)' (images of the panorama begun in 1796 and explanatory text about panoramas in general - Edinburgh Virtual Environment Centre) {July, 2002}
• Panoramas. American Panoramic Artists and Publishers [linked to a bibliography] (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• Panoramic Maps 1847-1929 (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• Philately. 'Your map's in the mail' (Gayle Turim - Mercator's World 1:2, 1996)
• Portolan charts (four charts and an isolario) (commentary and bibliography - Carol Urness, James Ford Bell Library). See also 'Young Navigators' (leading to: 'Travel through history'; 'Building blocks in cartography'; 'Building blocks in geography'; 'The world revealed through maps') {February, 2001}
• Portolan charts. Battista Agnese: portolan atlas of 9 charts and a world map, 1544 (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• + Portolan charts. L'école cartographique majorquine [in French] (Bibliothéque Nationale de France)
• + Portolan charts. Les Portulans [in French] (Bibliothéque Nationale de France)
• Portolan charts. 'The Ottomans and their rivals, galleys and galleons, portolan charts and isolarii' (from Svat Soucek, Piri Reis & Turkish mapmaking after Columbus: the Khalili portolan atlas - Nour Foundation, 1995, pp.10-33)
• Portolan charts. 'Vorläufiges Repertorium der Portolankarten des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts' (Wolfgang Köberer, in Der Vermessungsingenieur, 37, 3 (1986) - Adobe Acrobat) {December, 2001}
• Portolan charts. [See under 'Periplus' for two place-name sites: one listing all names from a 14th century chart; the other comparing Adriatic names from 45 charts of the 14th and 15th centuries]. (Both by Piero Falchetta)
• Portolan Chart Reference List (a summary bibliography by Phil Stover) {February, 2001}
• Portolan charts. See also under Themes: Catalan
• + Portolani. "Navigare e descrivere" (a selection of Isolari and Portolani, 15-18th centuries - Museo Correr di Venezia, 2001) {December, 2002}
• Printing methods. 'An interactive introduction to the art of printmaking' (including intaglio, lithography and woodcut - by Sara Beth Levavy and Josh Hirsch) {January, 2001}
• Printing methods. 'An Introduction to Printmaking Techniques' (Rebecca Keary for WorldPrintDealers) {January, 2002}
• Printing methods. 'Antique maps and prints: how they were printed' (Carl Moreland & David Bannister)
• Printing methods. 'A short history of print art 1500-1860' (Ashley Baynton-Williams - MapForum 5, May 1999)
• Printing methods. 'Beginner's guide: re-engraving' (Ashley Baynton-Williams, MapForum 7, September 1999)
• Printing methods. 'Beginner's guide: woodcuts' (Ashley Baynton-Williams, MapForum 8, 1999)
• + Printing methods. 'Color printing in the nineteenth century' (Iris R Snyder - exhibition at the University of Delaware Library, 1996)
• Printing methods. What is a print?: original antique prints and print processes (The Philadelphia Print Shop)
• Projections. 'An explanation and guide of the Peters World Map' (from Diversophy.com) {March, 2001}
• Projections. 'Ist das Rätsel der Mercator-Karte AD USUM NAVIGANTIUM 1569 gelöst?' (Wilhelm Krücken - Petermann's Mittheilungen 4 / 36 (1994)) [see other material on projections via the Index page] {November, 2001}
• Projections - see also 'Measuring and defining space'
• * Propaganda. 'Before the Nazis: maps as weapons in German nationalist propaganda' (Guntram H. Herb - Mercator's World 4:3, 1999)
• * Propaganda. 'Carto-controversy: tales of maps as weapons of persuasion and deception' (Mark Monmonier - Mercator's World 1:1, 1996)
• Publishers' advertisements. 'Treacle & Vinegar' (Ashley Baynton-Williams - MapForum 6, July 1999)
• Railroads. Central Pacific Railroad Maps (Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum)
• Railroads. History of Railroads and Maps (after Andrew M. Modelski - Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• Railroad History Database Project [U.S.A.] (Adrian Ettlinger and Holly Hansen) {October 2000}
• Railroad maps - see also Transportation
• Relief mapping. 'Infinite Perspectives: Two Thousand Years of Three-Dimensional Mapmaking' (exhibition at the Yale Map Collection - no images) {November 2000}
• Relief model. Scientific evaluation of a historical relief model of Central Switzerland (1762-1786) [a photogrammetric analysis of the relief model by Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher, in the Gletschergarten Museum, Lucerne] {November 2000}
• Road map bibliography (Road Map Collectors Association)
• Road maps. ['Cartographic methods for representing a single route through space'] (untitled thesis by Scott Bell, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1994 or later - discusses, e.g. historical strip-maps)
• + Road maps. 'Hitting the road: Road Maps From the Map Collection of Yale University Library' {November 2000}
• Road maps. 'A journey in road maps' (American Automobile Association) {November, 2002}
• Road maps. Petrol Maps: Mapping the history of oil company road maps in Europe [Ian Byrne] {October 2000}
• * Road maps. 'Romantic and Modernist Images on Twentieth Century Iowa Official State Highway Maps' (Slide Set #28: commentary by Daniel Block - Newberry Library) {December, 2002}
• Road maps. Switzerland. Die Strassenkarten von Pierre Bel (Philipp von Cranach) {November 2000}
• Road maps - see also Transportation, and the relevant section in Map Collecting
• Scales. 'Chequered Scales - Change in Consciousness?' (on scales, 14th-19th century, several on maps and charts - Anthony P Stone) {November, 2001}
• Secrecy. 'Geheimhaltung und Verfälschung von Karten aus militärischen und politischen Gründen' (preprint of a 16-page article by Kurt Brunner, in German, on secrecy on early maps) {February, 2002}
• Silk (cloth) maps - see Escape maps
• Statistical maps. Statistische kaarten (in Dutch) (Wim Neeleman and Heleen Verhage) - see also People: Minard
• * Statistical maps. 'The debate on the standardization of statistical maps and diagrams (1857-1901). Elements for the history of graphical language' [Gilles Palsky, Cybergeo, 1999] {October 2000}
• Surveying (history)
• + Surveyors. The Measurers: a Flemish image of mathematics in the sixteenth century (Jim Bennett, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford)
• Theft - see Links relating to the theft of early books and maps
• 'Thematic maps. Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization: an Illustrated Chronology of Innovations') (analysis by half-century, by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis) {April, 2001}
• + Thematic maps. 'Strijd om de Ruimte in Kaart' [Mapping the struggle for space - a range of thematic maps, in Dutch] (exhibition organised by Guus Borger and Jan Werner, 2000) {December 2000}
• Transportation maps [images from the Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection] {October 2000}
• * Utopia. 'A Bibliography of Thomas More's Utopia' [including: 'II.d. Geography in Utopia'] (Romuald Ian Lakowski - Early Modern Literary Studies 1.2 (1995))
• * Utopia. 'Utopia and the 'Pacific Rim': The Cartographical Evidence' (Romuald I. Lakowski - Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (September, 1999))
• Vinland Map (Regularly updated comment by Tim Spalding, with images. For links, to online literature and recent news items, select 'The Vinland Map') {December 2000}
• Vinland Map. (Review article in Imago Mundi by Paul Saenger, 1998)
• Vinland Map (Review article (in English) by Lars Lönnroth in alvíssmál, 7 (1997): 115-20) {November, 2001}
• Vinland Map. 'Geografi og forkjærlighet: Søkelys på Per Lillieström' (article by Kirsten Seaver, in Norwegian, in the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten, 26 February 2001) {March, 2001}
• Vinland Map. 'The Vinland Map: Some "Finer Points" of the Debate' (J. Huston McCulloch, August 2001) {December, 2002}
• check also under 'Special topics with relevance to early maps' and 'Related Subjects'

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Atlas Collations

[by Ashley Baynton-Williams - unless otherwise stated]
• Boisseau, Jean, Theatre Des Gaules (Paris, 1637) (Joseph Q. Walker - MapForum 2, February 1999)
• Buffier, Claude, Geographie Universelle (Rome, 1787) (MapForum 9, 2000)
• Colom. 'Maps included in Colom atlases' [The New Fierie Sea-Colomne, 1649; De Vyerighe Colom, 1654; Atlas or Fyrie Colom, 1668; Atlas ou Colom Ardante, 1668]. (Jason Hubbard - MapForum 12, May 2001) {May, 2001}
• Colom, Arnold, Zee-Atlas (Amsterdam, 1658) (MapForum 7, September 1999)
• Colom, Jacob Aertz. "More sea atlases published by Jacob Aertz. Colom", 1633-68 (David Parry and Jason Hubbard - MapForum 15 [April 2002]) {April, 2002}
• Darby, William, A view of the United States (Philadelphia, 1828) (MapForum 4, April 1999)
• Forlani, Paolo, 'Works' [in four parts] (MapForum 11 [December 2000]) {December 2000}
• Fries, Lorenz, editions of Ptolemy's Geographia [editions of 1522, 1525, 1535, 1541] (MapForum 8, 1999)
• Keulen, Gerard Hulst van, [Untitled sea atlas of the Atlantic seaboard of North America, ca. 1785] (MapForum 3, March/April 1999)
• Langenes, Barent, Tabularum Contractarum (Amsterdam, 1649) (MapForum 2, February 1999). [Langenes, see also under Visscher]
• Moll, Herman, Maps of the Several Parts of Europe (London, [1706-7]) (Lee Jackson Antique Maps - MapForum 13 [September 2001] {September, 2001}
• Münster, Sebastian, Geographia [editions of 1540, 1542 and 1545] (MapForum 10, 2000)
• Nagaev, Aleksei, Atlas of the Baltic Sea (1757) (Pellervo Kokkonen - collation, bibliography and images) {October 2000}
• [Revolutionary War - Histories of the American War] [works by David Ramsay, François Soules, Odet-Julien le Boucher, and Michel René Hilliard d'Auberteuil] (MapForum 14 [February 2002]) {February, 2002}
• Rocque, John, Plans and Forts in America (London, 1763) (MapForum 5, May 1999)
• Salmon, Thomas, Lo stato presente... [Italian edition (Venice, 1740-62) of Modern History] (Jason Hubbard - MapForum 11 [December 2000]) {December 2000}
• Seller, John, Atlas Maritimus (London, 1675) (MapForum 6, July 1999)
• Speed, John, The Prospect of the most famous parts of the world (London, 1676) (MapForum 3, March/April 1999 - see under 'John Speed II')
• Speed, John, Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (London, 1676) (MapForum 4, April 1999 - see 'John Speed III' and follow link at the end)
• Visscher, Claes Jansz., N.J. Visscheri Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri Quatuor (Amsterdam, 1649) (Roger Baskes - MapForum 7, September 1999). NB Listed under 'Langenes'

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