The
first, most important and most informative link in the field of historical
cartography is Oddens bookmarks. It contains links to over 10,000 sites with or
about maps. Don't miss it. Oddens
bookmarks
Tony
Campbell, former librarian of the British Library has a very large number of
links to Societies, map displays, map collections, articles and other related
subjects, as well as a critically edited list of relevant literature references
under http://maphistory.info/
The
International Coronelli Society is devoted to the study and preservation of
globes. It is based in
If
you are looking for a book, or an author, which often happens in historical
cartography and which happens to me very often when translating texts on the
back of Ortelius maps, where about 1000 different authors are mentioned, the
best library to search is the Karlsruhe virtual library, which has instant
access to some 25 libraries in western Europe, North America and Australia with
abot 75 million books. Try www.ubka.uni-karsruhe.de/kvk.html
Archival
maps in the US has an interesting website which offers, among many other things,
a large collection of prints, all of them based on the holdings of the library
of Congress, which are facsimiles of Ortelius maps. If an original map by
Ortelius exceeds your budget, this is an interesting alternative source, see www.archivalmaps.com
Concerning Baedeker Travel guides, which
form a very modest part of this website, lots of information can be found on
the beautifully constructed website www.bdkr.com
BIMCC
is an organization in