3 - History of Cartography and Map Dealers
History of Cartography
No need to repeat all of Tony Campbell's hard work, so here are just the basic pointers.
​
The Gateway to the Subject - maintained by Tony Campbell. Includes books to get you into the subject.
​​​
-
Imago Mundi and on the Publisher's Site
The International Journal for the History of Cartography.
​
Ashley Baynton-Williams' on antique maps. Originally available online and also, for a period, as a printed magazine.
​
-
Harley and Woodward's History of Cartography Project. Some volumes are available online.
-
For antique map dealers see the relevant part of the History of Cartography website.
-
H-Maps. International digital forum in the historical study of the making, circulation, use and preservation of maps from the ancient to the contemporary period
Map dealers (modern)
There are comprehensive guides produced by Anne Taylor at Cambridge University Library for dealers of maps in Britain and Overseas.
(MS Word document)
(MS Word document)
(MS Word document) Useful for areas where mapping by the national mapping agency is unavailable. More information about Soviet military maps can be found here.
(MS Word document)
See also the the Ordnance Survey page on this website.
International mapping
A selection of links to large international dealers (inclusion in this list does not imply approval by the British Cartographic Society):
​
-
GeoPubs - Particularly good for geological and soil maps,
-
Internationales Landkartenhaus, ILH (Germany) - Supplier of a comprehensive range of maps and atlases or all types. Excellent loose-leaf printed catalogue, GeoKatalog 2, though since 2015 new pages are only available as PDFs.
-
Omnimap (USA) - International map importer and distributor. Extensive on-line catalogue. Now part of East View Companies.
-
East View Geospatial (USA) - Extensive online catalogue.
-
TopKart (Poland) - Distributor and retailer of Polish atlases and maps.
-
World of Maps (Canada) - International maps & atlases, travel books, satellite posters. Specialist in Canadian Government maps.
-
International Map Industry Association (IMIA) - Trade association for map dealers and publishers
These pages were compiled by: April Carlucci (British Library Map Library); Tinho da Cruz (Department of Geography, University of Liverpool); Anne Taylor (Cambridge University Library). They are maintained by the Map Curators' Group of the BCS. Colleagues are requested to help keep this information current by e-mailing suggestions for inclusion, and details of links that don't work.
​
The pages are intended to provide a first port of call for new colleagues, as well as a central place to find those documents or websites that you use infrequently but which are important/useful. Sadly, it cannot be an exhaustive list of every website that might be useful to the map curator/librarian/archivist - the maintenance would be a nightmare! We hope that you find it useful!
​
The organisers wish to thank the Western Association of Map Libraries, whose original Map Librarians Toolbox was the inspiration for our UK version.