A number of map dealers include descriptions (usually very brief)
and images of items currently for
sale. These tend to be the more standard, collectable maps, compared
to the rarities that may be found on institutional sites.
The following
links are to sites that include at least 100 images (and often far more),
of a reasonable size (or enlargeable), and with a good geographical and
date
coverage.
Typically, the images are arranged by region (hierarchically), which
makes it easy to find and browse a selection for your area of interest.
While the images will give a good idea of a map's appearance, they are
not always sharp enough for study.
Please note that this listing is concerned solely with images and should not be
considered as an endorsement of the firm in question.
* indicates you can search the site for works by a particular mapmaker or publisher [NB. This information will be
incomplete since a number of sites will have added that facility since they were originally included in this list]
- Adina S Sommer
- * Altea Gallery (enlargeable
to medium res., with an 'advanced search' facility)
- * Antique Maps &
Prints
- * Art Source International
(small, but clear, images of 12,625 maps - mostly 19th and 20th
centuries)
- Atlas and Map.com
- * Barry Lawrence Ruderman ('Over 10,000 Authentic
Antique Maps, Sea Charts & Atlases From All Parts of the World Illustrated & Described on-line'- enlargeable to
full screen at high resolution; see also the collection of 7,000 high resolution images from his former
stock [which can then be panned] mounted by Stanford University)
- Beach Antique Maps & Prints
(miniature maps and town plans, arranged by author)
- Beaux Arts (Dallas)
(map images enlargeable to very high resolution via Zoomify)
- * Classical Images (Melbourne)
(enlargeable images)
- * Clive A. Burden Ltd
(map images enlargeable to very high resolution)
- * Cosmography.com
[Thomas Suarez]
- * Donald A. Heald
- * Fair Winds Antique
Maps
- * Geographicus Antique Maps (enlargeable to very high
resolution via Zoomify; in 2011 over 2000 images were donated to Wikimedia Commons)
- * Goetzfried Antique Maps (enlargeable to
high resolution, including sold items)
- * Harlan J. Berk Ltd. Antique Maps (very high resolution
images)
- Hemispheres. Antique
Maps & Prints (Richard & Penelope Betz, fairly high resolution images - particularly strong on Africa)
- Jonathan Potter Ltd
- KittyPrint Antique Maps and Prints ('affordable prices')
- Lee
Jackson
- Leen Helmink (high
resolution images)
- Loeb-Larocque (enlargeable maps,
including a number of rarities)
- * The Map
House (10,000 maps, browsable by 'area, date, cartographer and subject or any combination', and
enlargeable to high resolution)
- Map World (with mouse-over zooming)
- Martayan Lan (New York)
(includes a number of rarities, in large, fairly high res. scans)
- Michael Jennings
- * Miklian Antiquarian Maps (19th
century and less expensive maps)
- * Mostly Maps
- Murray Hudson
- * The Old Print Shop
- * Old World
Auctions (searchable archives of earlier auctions)
- * Paulus Swaen
(auction; map images enlargeable to very high resolution via Zoomify)
- * Pettinaroli (Milan) (enlargeable to medium res.)
- The Philadelphia
Print Shop
- Philographikon
- * Pine Brook Maps (map images enlargeable to
very high resolution via Zoomify)
- * Richard B. Arkway, Inc
(incorporating Cohen & Taliaferro LLC; former catalogues are left up indefinitely)
- * Richard Nicholson
- Robert Putman
- Roderick M. Barron (enlargeable images)
- Steve Bartrick Antique Prints
& Maps (thumbnails, with one pre-selected detail)
- * Swan Gallery (map images enlargeable to high resolution)
- VÖBAM (Stockholm)
(enlargeable images at fairly high resolution)
- WardMaps.com (enlargeable to high resolution)
[With apologies to any 'larger' dealer site that has
been overlooked]
See also Map Collecting and Marketplace
