National Library of Australia: Maps

The National Library of Australia’s map collection includes around 1 million maps, from early European charts to current mapping of Australia, in print and digital form. All online maps are freely available for download, in high resolution. Learn more.

The David Rumsey Map Collection

The David Rumsey Map Collection database is historical map collection presenting over 105,000 maps and related images online. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific, Arctic, Antarctic, and the World. The physical map collection is housed in the David Rumsey Map Center at the Stanford University Library. Learn more.

Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection

The PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography at the Cornell University Library is a collection of maps intended primarily to influence opinions or beliefs. The collection reflects a variety of persuasive tools: allegorical, satirical and pictorial mapping; selective inclusion or exclusion; unusual use of projections, color, graphics and text; and intentional deception. Learn more.

Biblissima

Biblissima is an online digital library, which provides easy and coordinated access to documentation on manuscripts and early printed books, the texts contained therein, their circulation and their readers, from the 8th to 18th centuries (digitisations of early documents, documentary databases, editions, as well as tools to understand these documents and to produce new data). It is equipment for research, learning and diffusion, meant both for scholars and for a wider audience.

The Biblissima Portal provides unified access to a set of digital data on medieval manuscripts, incunabula and early printed books produced by the partners of the Biblissima consortium.

The IIIF collections search engine (a prototype application) allows you to search across IIIF-compliant manuscripts and rare books dated before 1800 coming from many digital libraries in the world. It is a work in progress, the platform is updated and enriched on a regular basis.
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Zeitschriften der Aufklärung (Periodicals of the Enlightenment)

Zeitschriften der Aufklärung is a digitally reconstructed corpus of major 18th and 19th century literary journals and review journals published in the German language. The selection of the periodicals is mainly based on the “Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750-1815” compiled by the Academy of Sciences at Göttingen. The collection is available as a part of the digital collections of the University of Bielefeld. Learn more.

ENGLISH SHORT TITLE CATALOGUE

The ESTC contains catalogue entries for items issued in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. Also included is material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories.

The database contains over 480,000 entries, and represents the holdings of some 2,000 libraries world-wide. Learn more

UNIVERSAL SHORT TITLE CATALOGUE

The USTC has now absorbed all our data for the period 1601-1650, so that we provide full coverage of the first two centuries of print in all our searches and analysis. We have added an extra one million copies, with, as far as possible, call numbers. We now have located copies from 8,500 libraries, archives and museums.

The USTC now comprises 740,000 editions with 4,000,000 surviving copies. Additional data to be added over the next weeks will take this total to 780,000 editions. The USTC now includes descriptions of some 40,000 single-sheet items, and this too will climb rapidly as we incorporate several thousand further items that we have discovered in our searches in archives. Learn more

RENAISSANCE CULTURAL CROSSROAD

The Renaissance Cultural Crossroads Catalogue is a searchable, analytical and annotated list of all translations out of and into all languages printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland before 1641. It also includes all translations out of all languages into English printed abroad before 1641.

RCCC draws on the second edition of the Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475-1640 edited by A. W. Pollard & G. R. Redgrave and is modelled on the online English Short-Title Catalogue, although offering additional information on the translations and translators. Learn more