• German Atlases (a good selection of 19th and 20th century German atlases, of various sorts, offering over 3000 images in medium or high res. ; look, e.g., for Berghaus, Spruner and Stieler under 'Perthes-Gotha' - Martin Hensen) {April, 2006}
• ’World atlases’ (a chronological list, 1719-1929, of about 85 world atlases, including, among others, works by d'Anville, Arrowsmith, Carey, Faden, Homann, Johnston [Physical Atlas], Kitchin, Lisle, Moll, Robert de Vaugondy, S.D.U.K., Vandermaelen [all five vols], whose contents can be found, in high res., on the David Rumsey Map Collection site [for further details about this site see Large general sites]) {May, 2004; amended December 2007}
• World atlases. 'Facsimile Project for historical maps' (complete scans of the maps and charts in a selection of atlases, initially Ptolemy (1513), Münster, Leo Belgicus, Seller, Neptune François, D'Après de Mannevillette; enlargeable to high res. - MapHist.com) {November, 2006}
• World atlases (the Geography, Cartography section of digitised titles includes (apparently) high res. images, via the free DjVu Browser Plug-in, of general atlases, e.g. by Peter Apian, Benedetto Bordone, Hugo Favolius, Ptolemy (1511); also titles relating to the Levant [more titles being added regularly] - Jewish National and University Library, Digitized Book Repository) {April, 2006}

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• Battista AGNESE see also Web articles (People)
• Atlas Van Loon. ‘Atlases from the Maritime Museum’ ( many hundreds of maps and sea charts from the composite Atlas Van Loon in the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, viewable in ‘medium’ res. and zoomable to high res., comprising parts of various atlases by Blaeu, e.g. 6 vols. of the Dutch edition of the Atlas Major (Koeman Bl 57), 5 vols of town books (Northern and Southern Netherlands, Rome, Papal States, Naples & Sicily - Koeman Bl 70-74) and 2 vols from the French edition of the Atlas Mayor (France and Switzerland - Koeman Bl 58); also sea atlases by Goos (1676 - Goos 1A) and Janssonius (1657 - Me 173A); there is no general contents list but you can select ‘Browse’ for alphabetical lists of makers (‘name’) and area covered (’location’) - see Diederick Wildeman, 'De atlas "Van Loon" iin het Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum', Caert-Thresoor 15:3 (1996): 75-6 - Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Memory of the Netherlands Project) {December, 2004}
• BLAEU. 'Le Grand Atlas, French edition' (sample, medium res. images of the title-page and a few of the 596 maps) {May, 2003}
• BLAEU Atlas. Volume 1: Europe, Germany & the Low Countries (select the 150 dpi option for a much enlarged, high res. scan of all the maps in the atlas, though a few are missing [the 500 dpi image is available for a fee]; the edition is not identified but is 1645 or later; with an index of geographical names (taken from the map titles or the atlas index) - Charles E. Young Research Library,| UCLA Library) {May, 2007}
• BLAEU. Toonneel des Aerdrycks, ofte Nieuwe Atlas (1659) (scans of the entire 6-volume atlas, enlargeable to high res., with a browsing display of thumbnails of the maps ('Kartenindex') and geographical name indexes; see also the note on the background to the atlas's acquisition by the city of Leiden (in Dutch) - Regionaal Archief Leiden) {March, 2008}
• Catalan Atlas see under Themes
• Leonardo DATI, 'La Sfera' (11 medium res. images from the 15th century MS: from the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence - Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini": Immagini per la storia economica e sociale) {July, 2003}
• Hendrick DONCKER, De zee-atlas ofte water-waereld , 1659 (high res., zoomable images of the preliminaries and 17 charts - National Library of Australia) {July, 2003}
• 'Frederik V's Atlas' (images, viewable in zoomable high res., via the DjVu plugin, from the 55-volume world atlas, comprising 400 maps given to Frederick V at his birth in 1723, expanding to 3,535 plates by the time of his death in 1766; see the 38- page analysis by Ib Rønne Kejlbo: 'Manuscript maps in the Frederik den Femtes Atlas' (1969) - the project started in late 2003 and catalogue descriptions are still to be added [at present, (March 2004) there are no contents lists for the individual volumes] - Royal Library, Copenhagen) {March, 2004}
• Islamic. ‘The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes’ (a hitherto unknown Arabic cosmographical treatise, the Kitab Ghara?ib al-funun wa-mulah? al-?uyun, known as the Book of Curiosities - a copy, probably made in Egypt in the late 12th or 13th century, of an anonymous work compiled in the first half of the 11th century in Egypt. The manuscript (viewable in high res.) contains a unique series of maps and diagrams, most of which are unparalleled in any other medieval work. These include diagrams of star-groups and comets; two world maps, one with a graphic scale (the earliest surviving example); individual maps of islands and ports in the eastern Mediterranean; the Indian Ocean, and Caspian Sea, etc., with fully searchable Arabic text and English translation - online publication by The Bodleian Library (which acquired it in 2002) in collaboration with The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford). [NB. The site is best viewed with Mozilla Firefox] {March, 2007}
• maproom.org (high res. scans of maps and various atlases, among them: Cary’s Travellers Companion (1790 - England & Wales), Thomas Milner’s A Descriptive Atlas of Astronomy and of Physical and Political Geography (1850 - a World atlas), Philips' Handy Atlas of the Counties of Wales (n.d.)) {July, 2004}
• S. MÜNSTER, La Cosmographie universelle contenant la situation de toutes les parties du monde, avec les proprietez & appartenances (1552) (medium res. images of all the maps and the other illustrations - Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini": Immagini per la storia economica e sociale) {July, 2003}
• Abraham ORTELIUS: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (53 maps, 1570) (Library of Congress - high res. MrSID images, with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details)
• Abraham ORTELIUS (thumbnails of all 234 maps found in the various editions of the Ortelius atlas, with commentary to each) {March, 2002}
• + 'Abraham ORTELIUS (1527-1598): Patriarch of our atlas' (includes over 30 maps from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Parergon - medium res. images from the University Library, Amsterdam, 1998, with commentary in Dutch; and a related page with sample images from a special edition of the atlas: 'Een aantal afbeeldingen uit het Nederlandstalige Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1584)') {March, 2001; updated December 2004}
• 'Abraham ORTELIUS. 1527-1598' (medium to fairly high res. illustrations of some of the atlas maps, accompanying reproductions of earlier commentaries, in Swedish - VÖBAM) {January, 2006}
• Abraham ORTELIUS, Le miroir du monde (the entire contents, text and images, in high res. , of the miniature edition published in Amsterdam by Zacharias Heyns, 1598 - Mannheimer Texte Online (MATEO), Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim) {September, 2004}
• PTOLEMY (scans, enlargeable to high res. of the entire contents of a highly ornate Latin manuscript on vellum [no bibliographical details could be easily found] - National Digital Library, Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw, Poland) {May, 2007}
• PTOLEMY. 'Fabricius 23 2º: Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia (fragment)' ("a bifolium, containing parts of book eight of Ptolemy’s classic work on geography, including three coloured maps", from a Greek MS, dated 1250-1300, the images enlargeable to high res. - Center for Manuscripts & Rare Books, Royal Library, Copenhagen) {June, 2006}
• PTOLEMY. HM 1092 "Wilton Codex" (a full description and enlarged, very high res. images of the entire contents of the manuscript Geographia (Italy, c. 1480), containing 27 maps and 26 tables - Huntington Library) {March, 2004}
• PTOLEMY see also 'World Atlases' (above) and Web articles (People)
• Thomas SALMON Lo Stato presente di tutti i paesi e popoli del mondo naturale, politico, e morale, con nuove (selection of medium res. images: from the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence - Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini": Immagini per la storia economica e sociale) {July, 2003}
• SANSON: 'Raccolta Cartografica' (1673-1686) (select 'tutti gli atlanti' for low res. scans - Astronomical Observatory of Brera)
• SCHAGEN. 'De Atlas van Schagen' (high res. scans of a group of 18 maps by Gerrit/Gerard Van Schagen (active up to 1690)) {November, 2005}
• School Atlases (a chronological list of school atlases, 1777-1864, whose contents can be found, in high res., on the David Rumsey Map Collection site [for further details about this site see Large general sites]) {January, 2006}
• Adolf STIELER, Schul-Atlas (Gotha: Perthes, 1848) (enlargeable very high res. images of the 28 maps - University of Pennsylvania Library, Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI)) {October, 2003}
• Van der Hagen en Atlas Beudeker (a good selection of high res. 17th century maps of various parts of the world, from the Royal Library, The Hague, and the British Library, with the possibility to zoom in at up to 16 times the size of the original image; with an index of geographical names and authors; also accessible here]
• VAN KEULEN. ‘Atlases from the Maritime Museum. The Zee-Fakkel by Johannes van Keulen’ (an expanded version of the Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel in six volumes, completed about 1790, with 571 maps and coastal views, viewable in ‘medium’ res. or enlargeable to high res.; there is no general contents list but you can select ‘Browse’ for alphabetical lists of makers (‘name’) and area covered (’location’) - Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Memory of the Netherlands Project) {December, 2004}
• 'VINGBOONS kaarten' (select 'Uitgebreid zoeken' and then, under 'Collectie', 'Vingboons kaarten' for an atlas of 115 charts and views by Johannes Vingboons of various parts of the world [mostly East and West Indies?], apparently dated 1665, manuscripts, some copied from engravings; enlargable by downloading Java Virtual Machine; brief notes on each map but no commentary on the collection as a whole - Netherlands Nationaal Archief) {April, 2008}
• Frederick de WIT. ‘Atlas’ (scans of the 29-sheet atlas, supposedly enlargeable - University of Strasbourg) {March, 2007}
• Portolan atlases - see also under Themes: 'Portolan charts'
• Town atlases - see also under other sections of Web Images: Themes - 'urban' and Europe

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