• Large Digital Libraries of Pre-1800 Printed Books in Western Languages (Klaus Graf) {December, 2009}
• ’Origins of map libraries in the mid-nineteenth century’ (a note by Matthew Edney, including a sizeable bibliography, for his Mapping as Process blog, 23 June 2021) {June, 2021}
• 'Searching for Early Maps: Use of Online Library Catalogs' (by Joel Kovarsky, 2010 ) {October, 2010; revised July 2012}
• 'The European Library' (you can select the page for each of the 43 national libraries involved, several of which include cartographic material) {August, 2005}

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• Aberystwyth. National Library of Wales - map collection {May, 2018}
• Amsterdam. 'De kaarten- en atlassencollectie van het Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap in de Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam' (Jan Werner) {November, 2005}
• Austin. Monumenta Cartographica (including most of the contents of the H.P. Kraus Ccatalogue 124, on which see the announcement - Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin) {October, 2012}
• Belgium. ’Places with maps in Belgium and in Europe’ (over 40 map repositories in Belgium - Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle [BIMCC]) {March, 2007}
• Berlin. 'The Online Catalogue of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage. StaBiKat' (includes all post-1940 maps and altases) {June, 2008}
• Bern. 'Die Kartensammlung Ryhiner und das Internet' (Thomas Klöti, 1996) {February, 2002}
• Bern. 'Karten in der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Bern: Die Erschliessung der Sammlung Ryhiner' (Thomas Klöti) {February, 2002}
• Brussels. Bibliothèque royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (an OPAC search for ‘maps’ found over 17,000; for ‘cartes’ [which has other meanings] over 26,000, and for ‘kaarten’ over 16,000; ‘maps scotland’, for example, retrieved 99; there do not appear to be any online images) {August 2017}
• Budapest. ‘Treasures from the Collection of Library Founder Count Ferenc Széchényi. Specialities of a Cosmographic Atlas’ (about the core of the map collection of the national library of Hungary (National Széchényi Library), much of it relating to other parts of the world, with sample, enlargeable illustrations) {June, 2016}
• Cambridge Digital Library. ‘Browse our collections’ (a selection of (it seems) nearly 300 maps, some in manuscript, with captions - Cambridge University Library) {February, 2022}
• Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard Map Collection. 'Terra Cognita: made of vellum or bits or bytes, maps are communications ,and Harvard avidly collects and creates them' (Christopher Reed in Harvard Magazine, September/October 1997) {February, 2004}
• The 'Cartographic Golden Triangle' [Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison] (Robert W. Karrow, Jr. - Caxton Club) {September, 2003}
• < Chicago. Newberry Library (Digital Collections - 'Maps', 1,165, thumbnails leading to the images, including the 754 recently added early Italian maps from the Novacco collection) {September 2024}
• Chicago. ‘The Newberry Provides Digital Access to Over 200,000 Images Documenting History of Early America and U.S. Westward Expansion’ {May, 2018}
• Chicago. Newberry Library ‘Digital Resources by Type’ (see, for an overview, ‘Maps, Travel, and Exploration’; however many others will feature maps; among the directly relevant collections are: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries; Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana; Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms; Mapping the French Empire in North America; Mapping Movement in American History and Culture) {August, 2018}
• Chicago. Newberry Library Cartographic Catalog (descriptions of 30,000 maps, 17,000 atlases and other books with five or more maps, and 7,000 secondary sources on specialised topics in the history of cartography) {May, 2008}
• Chicago - the private collection of Newberry Library trustee Roger Baskes is described in 16 short-title lists describing over 15,000 works with five or more maps. Includes atlases, travel guides, geographies, and secondary reference works keyed to author indexes. Also included are checklists of publications sorted by country of publication and genre, a cartobibliography of American maps issued in various editions of S.A. Mitchell's "New General Atlas" (1860-1895), and a list of Baskes titles transferred to the Newberry Library. Note that it is recommended that you use Internet Explorer for best results. Most of the Baskes Collection is also described in the Newberry Library Cartographic Catalog {May 2008}
• Chicago. Newberry Library. 'Maps, Travel, and Exploration' {May, 2004}
• Chicago. ‘A Cartographic Paradise: The [Barry] MacLean Collection’ (an illustrated note by Eliane Dotson, Washington Map Society) {December, 2019}
• Cracow. 'The Most Valuable Cartographic Items from the Collection of the Jagiellonian Library and their Impact on Scientific Research' (Jadwiga Bzinkowska, Jagiellonian Library in LIBER Quarterly 2 (1992)) {July, 2005}
• Dublin. ‘Mapping History’ (exhibition: the first two sections cover Ireland (‘Irish Localities’ and ‘The Island of Ireland’), the remainder the rest of the world – Marsh’s Library, Dublin) {March, 2021)
• Edinburgh. National Library of Scotland. Main Catalogue (select 'Quick limits' - Map collection) {October 2017}
• Edmonton. 'The William C. Wonders Map Collection Database' (entries for "over 31,000 records representing over 450,000 map sheets", with more pre-1995 items continuing to be added - University of Alberta) {July, 2006}
• Fort Worth. Texas Christian University (a 33-page pdf annotated checklist of the maps in the George T. Abell collection, held in the Mary Couts Burnett Library) {July, 2009}
• France. 'Catalogue collectif de France' (click, in turn, 'Localisation - Rech. spécialisées - Base Patrimoine', for a union catalogue of French local and specialist libraries with over 2.5 million entries (mostly pre-1811); selecting 'Carte' in 'Type de document' retrieved 1050 cartographic entries; these could be searched for in numerous ways, and sorted, eg., by date) {January, 2008}
• Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum (select 'Sibirica' for links to maps in monographs and periodicals - Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Digitalisierungs-Zentrum) {November, 2002}
• ’Leiden University: Maps in the Crowd. Georeferencing at Special Collections’ (9 February 2016) {March, 2016}
• Leiden University Library, Digital Special Collections (under 'Select collection' choose 'collection guides' and then search for 'maps', which brings up links to inventories of seven relevant collections: Bodel Nijenhuis, Manuscript maps, Vossius, Wieder, Japanese books and maps, Arabic MSS, and Leids bibliotheekbezit - in each case click on the 'Collection' box to see the full details) {July, 2008}
• Leiden. ‘Exceptional collection of maps and atlases donated to Leiden University Libraries’ {December, 2021}
• London. British Library. ‘The Bagford Collection’ (illustrated note by Antony Gfiffiths for British Library ‘Picturing Places’) {March, 2018}
• London. British Library. ‘Crace Collection Maps of London’ (introduction, by Peter Barber, to the ‘Online Gallery’ images) {September, 2004}
• London. British Library. 'Fortunate Survivors: Maps and Map Fragments in the Bagford Collection' (pdf article by Tom Harper in the Electronic British Library Journal, 2010; about the maps among the printing samples (from the 15th century onwards) collected by the antiquary and bookdealer John Bagford (1650-1716), in the British Museum, now Library, Harl.MS.5935) {April, 2010}
• London. British Library. ‘King George III Topographical Collection‘ (introduction, by Peter Barber, to the ‘Online Gallery’ images) {September, 2004}
• London. British Library. 'Laying bare the secrets of the British Library's map collections' (a reissue of a 1993 illustrated article by Tony Campbell in The Map Collector - about an unpublished index to the manuscript maps in the BL) {June, 2008}
• London. British Library Map Collections (brief, but useful, notes on the catalogues, the major collections, on MS maps, globes, topographical prints, and Ordnance Survey maps) {January, 2004}
• London. British Library. 'The Map Collections of the British Museum Library' (reprint of the chapter by Helen Wallis, in: Helen Wallis & Sarah Tyacke (eds) My Head is a Map: Essays & Memoirs in honour of R.V. Tooley (London: Francis Edwards & Carta Press, 1973) pp. 3-20) {June, 2010}
• London. 'British Library, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts' (search for 'map' for an online selection, from the Department of Manuscripts, of early atlases and books illustrated with maps, enlargeable to high res.) {March, 2012}
• London. British Library. 'Recent antiquarian acquisitions not on the CD-ROM. I Mercator Atlas. II Miscellany [20 items]' (MapForum 8, 1999)
• London. British Library. ' "Simply Superb": The British Library's Map Library melds old and new worlds' (Liz Sagues - Mercator's World 5:2, 2000)
• London. British Library. 'Useful Maps - Themes in European Cartography' (reissue of an illustrated article by Sarah Tyacke in The Map Collector 28 (September 1984); about special-purpose maps in the British Library's collection - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• London. The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office) ('Browse our Research Guidance') {April, 2012}
• London. The National Archives (UK). 'From Roanoke to Aden: Colonial Maps in the National Archives of the United Kingdom' (17-page illustrated pdf article by Rose Mitchell - International Symposium on "Old Worlds-New Worlds": The History of Colonial Cartography 1750-1950, Utrecht, 21-23 August 2006 (Working Group on the History of Colonial Cartography in the 19th and 20th Centuries, International Cartographic Association)) {March, 2008}
• London. Royal Geographical Society. 'Geography, cartography and military intelligence: the Royal Geographical Society and the First World War' (by Michael Heffernan, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 21, 3 (1996), pp.504-33) {November, 2010}
• London. Royal Geographical Society. 'Listing of cartographic items displayed for visit of LIBER GdC Conference, 2004, to RGS' ('collected, arranged, and listed by Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG)') {September, 2005}
• London, Senate House Library. 'E.G.R. Taylor Collection of Historic Printed Maps' ('over 900 map sheets, representing 96 individual and series titles, and dating between 1700 and 1900', formerly belonging to the cartographic historian and professor of geography at Birkbeck College, London) {September, 2008}
• Madrid. 'La Colección de Mendoza y Ríos en el Museo Naval de Madrid' (an illustrated moving presentation by Luisa Martin-Merás; click on the page to move to the next one) {October, 2008}
• + Madrid. ‘Libros de geografía en la Universidad Complutense: Desde la antigüedad hasta el siglo XVIII’ (Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla, Madrid) {July, 2004}
• Madrid. Catalogue of the Biblioteca Virtual de [Ministero de] Defensa (you can first select and then search in Spanish and English for maps or 'mapas, planos y cartas náuticas', to get 1.494 entries and links to the images) {August, 2024}
• Milwaukee. American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin. 'Inside the most amazing map library that you've never heard of' (illustrated guide by Luke Spencer, Atlas Obscura, 6 April 2015) {April, 2015}
• + Munich ‘Kunstmanns Kostbare Karten – Ein Einblick in den Nachlass von Friedrich Kunstmann an der Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München / Kunstmann’s map treasures: a virtual exhibition drawn from the Kunstmann collection at the LMU University Library in Munich’ (curated by Thomas Horst) {February, 2022}
• New Haven – Yale. ‘Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Maps’ (a brief note on the collections) {March, 2019}
• + New York Public Library. "In thy map securely saile": Maps, Atlases, Charts, and Globes from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection at The New York Public Library {October 2000}
• New York Public Library. 'Mapping the World' (Treasures of The New York Public Library Video Series) {April, 2009}
• New York Public Library. 'Room Service! The Map Division at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue serves New York's throngs' (Susan Ludmer-Gliebe - Mercator's World 4:5, 1999)
• New York State Archives (select Online Catalog [at the top] and then map for descriptions of 183 items (mostly late 19th and 20th century)) {October, 2004}
• Ottawa. Public Archives of Canada. 'Catalogue of maps, plans and charts in the Map Room of the Dominion Archives (1912)' (Classified and indexed by H.R. Holmden - University of Pittsburgh Library System) {November, 2010}
• Oxford. 'The Todhunter-Allen Collection [Bodleian Library]' (Paula Dryburgh - Mercator's World 2:1, 1997)
• Paris. Bibliothèque historique centrale de la Marine (a listing of French MS maps [Le Recueil 65-69] relating to Canada and the USA from the 17th century; based now at the Château de Vincennes, this is the successor to various earlier organisations, including the Dépôt des cartes et plans) {October, 2010}
• Philadelphia. 'List of the Books, Maps and Charts in the University Library at Philadelphia' (a facsimile of the 37-page MS version listing over 800 'volumes'; it precedes the 1829 printed catalogue - University of Pennsylvania Library, Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI)) {October, 2003}
• Philadelphia. 'Realms of Gold: a Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society' (equivalent to a 600-page book, this catalogue, preceded by an introduction, by Murphy D. Smith, 1991, comprises 1774 entries (over 1000 relating to North America) of which 52 are MSS and three globes, illustrated with 'more than 100 maps') {September, 2005}
• + Portland, Maine. ‘Masterpieces at USM: Celebrating Five Centuries of Rare Maps and Globes’ (exhibition at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, November 2015-March 2016) {November, 2017}
• Portland, Maine. ‘The Osher Map Library invites the whole world in’ (Edgar Allen Beem, in Humanities, 37,2 (2016)) {June, 2016}
• Prague. Charles University Map Collection ('the most significant university map collection in Central Europe'; leading, inter alia, to 'Digital Maps and Atlases' [26,000 items], 'Globes', 'Catalogue of the Collection', 'Cartographers', 'Exhibitions', 'Kuchar's Gallery of Cartography', 'Publications') {December, 2015}
• Prague, Charles University Map Collection (Günter Schilder is filmed evaluating some of the significant early maps in the collection, among them rare wallmaps, 16 February 2014) {June, 2015}
• Princeton. 'Manuscript Maps Collection, 1700-1900: Finding Aid' (brief entries on a small number of items - Princeton University Library, Manuscripts Division) {June, 2009}
• Reston. 'The Heringen Collection of the US Geological Survey Library, Reston, Virginia' (an illustrated 26-page pdf article by R. Lee Hadden, in Earth Science History, 27, 2 (2008) pp.242-65; about a collection of maps and reports captured by the forces of Nazi Germany); see also the note Heringen Resources, and useful references on the MapHist site in January 2010 (select 'Captured Nazi Maps')) {December, 2009; updated January 2010}
• + Richmond. ‘Geographia: Select Maps and Charts from the Alan M. Voorhees Collection at the Library of Virginia’ (online exhibition at the Library of Virginia - Google Arts & Culture) {January, 2019}
• Russia. 'List of archives and libraries where cadastral maps and documents are stored' (Alexei Karimov) {June, 2006}
• San Marino. 'Treasures of the Huntington' (Bill Warren - Mercator's World 6:1, 2001) {January, 2001}
• St Petersburg. National Library of Russia. Map Catalogues (see under: 'Catalogues Covering Some Material Types' for various catalogues of foreign and Russian maps and atlases from 1501 onwards - National Library of Russia) {July, 2008}
• < http://www.mcu.es/archivos/Novedades/novedades_PARES_Coleccion_Digital_Mapas.html > Simancas. 'Colección Digital de Mapas, Planos y Dibujos del Archivo General de Simancas' (catalogues and guides to accessing the collection) {October, 2011}
• Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections. ‘Antiquarian Map Collection’ (rudimentary descriptions of 5,924 maps, 1493-1962, accessed by clicking on 'Entire finding aid' - Online Archive of California) {December, 2004}
• Stuttgart. Württembergische Landesbibliothek. OSKAR. Online-Systematik für kartographische Materialien der WLB {June, 2008}
• Switzerland. Kartenportal.CH (a new metacalogue containing 'half a million maps from all over the world – from mediaeval manuscript maps to current printed ones', searchable by the region covered or the individual institution - see the About page for background) {November, 2014}
• Turkey. 'History of Maps and Important Map Collections in Turkey' (an unpublished 11-page pdf article by Hakan Anameriç, 30th MELCOM International Conference, Oxford (United Kingdom), 23-25 June 2008) {November, 2009}
• UK. Archives Hub (notes on over 300 UK repositories, mostly in the Higher Education sector [libraries, archives, or special collections departments]) {May, 2007; updated February 2017}
• * United States. ’Something on the Origins of the Two Largest Map Collections in the USA and the Practice of Map History’ (the collections are in Harvard College and the P. Lee Phillips map collection in the Library of Congress - Matthew Edney’s Mapping as Process blog, 3 December 2022) {December, 2022}
• Utrecht University Library Special Collections. ‘Georeferencing: a second life to old maps’ (the crowdsourcing of about 1,000 maps of the Netherlands and Dutch regions and about 1,000 maps from the collection of the former Utrecht professor Ackersdijck. Also a new website gives access to Digital exhibitions) {February, 2022}
• Washington, D.C., Library of Congress. 'The Hauslab Liechtenstein Map Collection', by Walter Ristow, edited, with a Foreword, by Ryan J. Moore - Occasional Paper 14 of the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society (summer 2018). Previously in the The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, vol. 35, no. 2 (1978) pp.108-138.
• Washington, D.C., Library of Congress. ‘Mapping our world: how maps reveal he way we see ourselves’ (The May-June 2021 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine) is formed of a sequence of articles by Geography and Map Division staff prompted by their collection) {August, 2021}
• Washington, D.C., Library of Congress. 'A Separate Apartment for Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress by Philip Lee Phillips, F.R.G.S.' (a 15-page illustrated essay by Richard W. Stephenson, Philip Lee Phillips Map Society Publication No.1, 1998) {November, 2015}
• Washington, D.C., U.S. National Archives & Records Administration [NARA]. 'Cartographic and Architectural Records' (a 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); see also 'General Information Leaflet 26: Cartographic and Architectural Records' , the web version of "an overview of holdings, reference services, and a list of finding aids related to cartographic and architectural records holdings") {March, 2004}
• Wroclaw. 'The Cartographic Collection of the Wroclaw University Library - its Nature , and Usefulness for Readers' (Krystyna Szykula in LIBER Quarterly 2 (1992)) {July, 2005}
• See also Map Collections

      + online exhibitions       * works with a theoretical (often literary) dimension