![]() Browse search facets: What, Where, Who, When. Civil War, Afghanistan, Moon, Mountains and Rivers, Migration, Languages, Religions, Railroads, Climate, Agriculture, Economics, and Zoological. Subject and place examples: Pictorial, Geology, California, New York City, U.S. Popular collection categories include data visualization, celestial maps, atlases, globes, school geography, maritime charts, city atlases, pocket maps, children's maps, and manuscript maps. Refresh the link to see 250 more. We invite you to get pleasurably lost.Īdvanced search allows refined inquiries for precise results, while browsing encourages serendipitous exploration, honoring the legacy of library shelves. NEW: Random Browse the collection (desktop and tablet only). Here you can see the history of cartography through primary sources from 1500 into the 21st century. The online map collection is a searchable database that allows you to make your own journeys into spatial representations of the past. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, the Pacific, the Arctic, and the World. The historical map collection has over 120,000 maps and related images online. Or take a virtual tour of the Map Center, which hosts events such as the recent Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography : Indigenous mapping. Visit the physical collection at the David Rumsey Map Center at the Stanford University Library. Read the Blog to learn more about collection highlights, such as Urbano Monte's manuscript world map from 1587. Here you can explore maps through a variety of viewers. Welcome to the David Rumsey Map Collection. If you’re starting out, get involved.View High Resolution Interactive Globe View All Interactive Globes Maps is one of the few collecting areas where institutions, auctioneers, academics and dealers all work very closely together it is a warm and welcoming family and we all go to the same events such as the London Map Fair at the Royal Geographical Society, the yearly Miami International Map Fair and the biennial International Conference for the History of Cartography. Visit collections at institutions such as the British Library or the Library of Congress, map fairs, and map dealers’ shops. Only by physically handling maps will you gain an understanding of the papers involved, the types of binding used for atlases, and the differences between contemporary and modern colouring. It's also worth attending the previews of Christie’s Books sales because they always have a cartographic component. Maps have so many editions and issues, and can be found in so many various states, that a good reference library is a must to help navigate your way through the field. There’s no substitute for a great library. Visit map fairs and map dealers to find out more about atlases and maps There is a host of areas yet to be explored. And what about maps of the Human Genome? Perhaps we’ll also see maps of global warming and of ozone layers come into play. ![]() ![]() In recent years the Harry Beck London Underground map executed in the 1930s has attracted a lot of attention. ![]() Some collectors are straying from traditional ideas of what constitutes a collectable map. In 2012, Christie’s set a new world record for such an atlas of manuscript maps, selling Battista Agnese’s Portolan Atlas of the World, a 16th-century maritime navigational atlas with beautiful illuminated decoration, for $2,770,500. The landscapes are sometimes filled with mythical beasts, fanciful hills or flags for the countries they represent. The early ones have a sparse beauty while the later renditions are highly decorated, almost in the fashion of illuminated manuscripts. Since they are primarily interested in the depiction of coastlines, the early ones don’t show any landforms or give any sense of depth.Ĭrisscrossed by rhumb lines (lines that cross meridians of longitude at the same angle), embellished with compass roses and coast names written at right angles to the coastline, they are both beautiful and accurate. These were used by medieval and Renaissance sea captains to navigate, and can look very unusual to the modern eye. The Barentsz is interesting because its charts derive from the tradition of portolan atlases and charts. ![]()
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