Early Modern Resources

online collection of more than 15,800 maps, focusing on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps, with historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa (Cartography Associates)

maps covering the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, documenting the processes of ‘discovery’ from coast to interior (American Memory)

Seventeenth-century town and city maps (George Welling)

(EMLS)

Online seminar on the mapmakers of the American West (Alice Hudson, NY Public Library)

High quality scans of Cambridge University Library's set of 66 proof maps prepared for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, which was published in 1611/12. The maps are in a late state of preparation, but many were altered before being published.

digital edition of Rocque’s 26 inch to the mile map of London, Westminster and Southwark, fully indexed (Motco)

This site maps the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London.

Images of ‘the earliest surviving detailed maps of Scotland, made by Timothy Pont over 400 years ago, in the 1580s and 1590s’. There is also biographical material about Pont, and useful essays on what the maps reveal about facets of late sixteenth-century Scotland (National Library of Scotland)

An online exhibit of a selection of maps used during the war, with information about the war and a timeline (Massachusetts Historical society)

(Hargrett Library)

An early set of maps of Scottish towns, illustrating “special characteristics that made a town a town” (National Library of Scotland)

full-text electronic edition of John Strype’s 1720 Survey of London, complete with its maps and plates, as well as an introductory essay and bibliography (The Stuart London Project)

The Grubstreet Project is a digital edition of 18th-century London. It aims to map the city and its texts to create both a historically accurate visualization of the city's commerce and communications, and a record of how its authors and artists portrayed it.

The years after the Revolutionary War saw the emergence of a distinctly American cartography, one that reflected the ambition and optimism characteristic of the young United States. AmericanMapmaking.com presents a virtual tour of the 2011 Harvard Map Collection exhibit.