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  • Oddens' Bookmarks

  • Other gateway sites

  • Oddens' Bookmarks: THE list of map links (history links)


    *** Note that Oddens' Bookmarks are not being updated any longer ***


    Many of the links listed on Oddens' Bookmarks are relevant for the history of cartography. The Bookmarks includes over 22,000 links but is not actively maintained at present (January 2007). The Bookmarks include details of individual early maps from several series. See also 'Four years of Oddens' Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping' (LIBER Quarterly 10,4 (2000)).

    In 1999, the Bookmarks were re-organised from a series of separate files into a database. This has a search facility that allows you to retrieve via any single word in the link titles or via the country or region concerned. Ton Markus, who was responsible for re-engineering the Bookmarks, has kindly provided the internal searches below, specially tailored for those who are interested in historical subjects.

    If you want to include modern material in your search, go to Oddens' Bookmarks itself and search from there.

    If you are interested in the links that concern antiquarian subjects alone (almost 4,500 in all), select one of the following from the option below. The number of links (as at December 2003) is given in brackets afterwards:-

  • Cartographic Curiosities (128)
  • History of Cartography - Literature (492)
  • Maps and Atlases - Old (2,982)
  • Map Collections - General (416)
  • Map Collections - Catalogues (113)
  • Sellers of Cartographic Material - Antiquarian (348)
  • After choosing a category and/or a country, click "Show me the links". Do not hit return

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    Other useful gateway sites and lists of history of cartography links

    The sites described below are those that are regularly updated, since it is frustrating to be faced with a list of dead links. Where update information is available it is given at the end of the entry. See also Roelof Oddens's 'Map collections on the World Wide Web' in ICA News 36 (June 2001) [PDF format].

    I would like to make a general acknowledgement of the help I have obtained from other websites and particularly listings and gateway sites, such as those mentioned below. Most of the links I have 'discovered' have come from other people's sites, rather than Google searching. I hope that others, in turn, can make good use of the links on this 'Map History' site.


    The gateway sites below were last checked in October 2004

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