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10. Asia

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• Asia (select ‘Sibirica’ for numerous zoomable, medium to high res. images of 17th-19th century maps of Asia and Russia – Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen) {February, 2003}
• Asia (10 medium-res. maps of Asia and the world; in Korean, but with English identification as well – Hye-Jung Museum) {July, 2005}
• Asia. ‘Army Map Service Topographic Map Series’ (a growing collection of high res. images, mostly covering parts of Asia and dating from the 1950s-60s – Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection) {July, 2006}
• Asia. ‘Crux: rare maps from the State Library of New South Wales’ (leading to images (zoomable to very high res.) of 89 maps – a good selection of world and regional maps) {August, 2005}
• Asia. ‘Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Asian Cities’ (a selection, zoomable to high res. – University of Chicago Library) {March, 2008}
• Asia. ‘Maps of South Asia’ (a large, annotated listing of map images (both historical and original and including some of Asia as a whole) – some on this site, others elsewhere – arranged by time-period – Frances Pritchett, Columbia University) {January, 2006}
• Asia in World Antique Map (Osaka University) (c. 100 images)
• ‘Asia on the World’ (about caricature maps relating particularly to China and Japan, and others generally – BibliOdyssey blog, 13 May 2008) {June, 2008}
• + Asia. ‘The world and its warp and woof’ (about 20 maps, evidently of Asia, in an over-elaborate Flash site; images can be enlarged to high res. and then laboriously scrolled with your cursor – ‘a special exhibition of antique maps donated by Prof. Johannes Hajime Iizuka’ – 2005 exhibition at the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan) {July, 2005}
• ‘Asian Maps Collection’ (176 maps, enlargeable to very high res. – University of Southern California, Digital Library) {January, 2016}
• ‘Asian Waters’ (the 6th volume of the Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel (1755) – see the main page for the Zee-Fakkel, here expanded, e.g. with illustrations from François Valentijn Oud en Nieuw Oost Indie (1724-6), viewable in ‘medium’ res. or enlargeable to high res.; there is no general contents list but you can select ‘Browse’ for alphabetical lists of makers (‘name’) and area covered (’location’) – Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Memory of the Netherlands Project) {December, 2004; amended February 2008 but the above details not checked}
• Asia and Central Asia. ‘The Tajikistan Update’ (a selection of links to maps in various collections, headed ‘historical maps’, arranged in reverse date order, including a number of originals, many of the whole of Asia – David Straub) {December, 2004}
• Silk Road. ‘Maps Related to the Silk Road’ (11 [original not ‘historical’] maps, enlargeable to high res. via LizardTech ExpressView Plugin – Yale University Library) {November, 2007}

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Central Asia

• ‘Maps of Central Asia’ (select ‘Maps II’ for 16 medium to high res. maps – Markus Hauser) {November, 2001}
• ‘Afghanistan Maps’ (numerous links to maps on the Perry-Castañeda Library site and elsewhere) {August, 2010}
• Afghanistan. ‘A Selection of Historical Maps of Afghanistan’ (six high res. MrSID images – Cynthia Cook, Library of Congress, 2004) {May, 2005}
• Mongolia. ‘Mongolische Landkarten’ (182 (manuscript ?) maps, from the early 20th century, collected by Hermann Consten, enlargeable to high res. – Ostasienabteilung der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; see also for background, ‘German Mongolist’s work attracts growing interest’, Mongolian Views, 4 December 2010) {December, 2010}
• Mongolia. ‘Old Mongolian Manuscript Maps’ (16 maps, 1803-1936, enlargeable to high res., from the state archives of Mongolia; they are listed here, and (an unusual feature) provided with a list of every name and inscription, which is indexed via an overlaid grid; you can also search for features such as temple, relay station, watch-post – Akira Kamimura (Tokyo)) {March, 2007}

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East Asia

• East Asian Map Collection (“Sea of Korea”) (searching for ‘East Asian Map Collection’ retrieves 172 medium res., maps of the world, Asia, east Asia, China, Sea of Korea, etc., 1606-1895 – Archival Research Center, University of Southern California) {May, 2002; updated January 2008 & February 2010}
• East Asia (a Japanese-language site offering maps (apparently enlargeable to high res., from the Japanese Imperial Army archives (though many copied from European surveys), covering the region from Alaska to Australia, and from the Korean peninsula to Pakistan (China, the Korean peninsula, Sakhalin and Taiwan are most thoroughly covered), dating from the 1880s to the end of WWII; the collection is growing – Tohoku University) {July, 2009}
  

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• Translate the following webpages, free, to/from Chinese via Yahoo! Babelfish [it will be a poor translation but it will do it immediately]
• China (a 19th-century Chinese map on an 8-metre roll, enlargeable to high res. in sections – Società geografica italiana) {March, 2011}
• China. ‘Antique maps of China’ (192 maps, enlargeable to very high res. – HKUST Library, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) {June, 2015}
• China. ‘Army Map Service Series L500 of China. Index Map, 1:250,000 Scale, c. 1950’ (covering eastern China; the cursor responds if a scan is available, enlargeable to very high res. – Harvard Map Collection) {September, 2007}
• + China. ‘Canal Is Formed When Water Comes: Qing Archival and Cartographical Materials on River Engineering’ (illustrated online exhibition in the National Palace Museum, Taipei) {May, 2012}
• China. ‘China 1:250,000 U.S Army Map Service’ (high res. (though slow-loading) images of almost half the sheets, covering the eastern half of the country [more to follow]; a sampled sheet was from the 1950s – University of Texas Libraries) {April, 2006}
• China. ‘ China National Dynamic Atlas’ (a historical atlas, with some medium res. scans of early Chinese maps [see the Contents page] – a slow-loading site, in Chinese) {March, 2006}
• China City Plans, U.S. Army Map Service, 1942-1945 (high res. (though slow-loading) images, covering 15 cities – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• China. [European knowledge 1500-1630] (the final part of the pdf thesis [NB a large pdf file], entitled ‘Mapas e iconografia dos Sécs. XVI e XVII’ (from p.1369), includes 22 low to medium res. images of Portuguese world maps and charts of the East; the map indexes are pp. 1424-6 [i.e. 31-3 in the pdf numeration] – 1509-page doctoral thesis (2003) ‘A construção do conhecimento europeu sobre a China, c.1500 – c.1630. Impressos e manuscritos que revelaram o mundo chinês à Europa culta’ by Francisco M. Roque de Oliveira, including an English abstract) {April, 2005}
• China. ‘From Tibet to Altai – Russian Historical Maps of China’ (a small selection of medium to high res. images of 19th and 20th century maps, from the Russian Academy of Science; see also under Web Projects) {May, 2005}
• China. HKUST Antique Maps Database (‘more than 230 maps, charts, pictures, books and atlases’, mostly of China but also of East Asia: enlargeable Adobe Acrobat images, in fairly high res. – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library) {August, 2003}
• + China. ‘How Rome Went to China’ (low res. images – a Library of Congress exhibition, 1993)
• + ‘China in Maps: 16th-19th Century’ (low res. images – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library)
• + China in Maps – a Library Special Collection (62 images, mostly maps and charts of the World, Asia and China; clicking on the image takes you to a catalogue entry (in English or Chinese) and clicking on that to a slow-loading PDF image that can be zoomed to high res.; the commentary (in English or Chinese) is linked to catalogue entries and to lists of maps by a given cartographer – exhibition 2002, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) {September, 2002}
• China. ‘Maps of China’ (select ‘historical maps’, towards the bottom, for a small selection of early maps, in various resolutions – China the Beautiful) {February, 2004}
• China. ‘Martino Martini (Trento 1614 – Hangzhou 1661)’ (leading to ‘Cronologia della vita e delle opere di Martino Martini S.J.’ and ‘La raccolta del Novus Atlas Sinensis’, which includes enlarged thumbnails of all the plates in the atlas of China, with commentary in Italian – Martino Martini Center) {September, 2005}
• China. ‘Specialized in Antique Maps of China and Formosa/Taiwan. Manuscript Chinese Maps’ (medium res. images of a selection of Chinese and European maps, both MS and printed) {March, 2006}
• China – Hong Kong. ‘Ordnance Map of Hong Kong by Thomas Collinson, 1846’ (4-sheet map, enlargeable to high res., also available as a georeferenced layer – National Library of Scotland) {January, 2016}
• China – Macau: a Selection of Cartographic Images (Library of Congress – 16 high res. MrSID images, 1655-1991, with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details) {July, 2003}
• China – Macau. ‘Overlooking the Earth: Map of China and Macao’ (click on the ‘Maps’ link at the extreme right for up to 56 low-medium res. maps (some of which do not fit the screen), with trilingual commentary (Chinese, English, Portuguese) – Instituto para os Assuntos Civicos e Municipais) {April, 2005}
• China – Manchuria, Series L542, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1950- (high res. (though slow-loading) images – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• China – Nansha Islands (about 60 maps, 1405-2005, medium to high res. – in Chinese and English) {March, 2006}
• China – Shanghai. ‘Tales of Old Shanghai’ (click on ‘Old Maps’ for a selection of scans from 1817, enlargeable to high res.) {January, 2008}
• China – Shanghai. ‘Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai urban space in time’ (select ‘Maps’ for 487 images, enlargeable to medium res. – Institut d’Asie Orientale (IAO) / Institut des Sciences de l’Homme (ISH)) {February, 2011}
• China – Tianjin. ‘Historical City Maps of Tianjin’ (14 high res. plans, 19th & 20th centuries – Wason Collection on East Asia, Cornell University) {July, 2005}
  

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• Translate the following webpages, free, to/from Japanese via Yahoo! Babelfish [it will be a poor translation but it will do it immediately]
• Japan (an individual’s collection of links, low res. images and research, in Japanese) {November, 2005}
• Japan (a large collection of medium to high res. images of maps and plans of Aichi and Nagoya (primarily from the Edo and Meiji periods) – Aichi Prefecture Library) {November, 2005}
• Japan. ‘Visual resources for Japan’ ([select ‘format’ – ‘maps’]; notes in English about various sites showing early maps of Japan, some with indexes and bibliographies – Duke University Libraries) . [Also an older version Online Maps – Historical] The sites described include the following, most of whose text is in Japanese:
  Aichi Prefectural Library
  Ashida Map Collection (Meiji University)
  Dai Nihon enkai yochi zenzu (Complete Survey of the Japanese Coast) (by Ino Tadataka – National Diet Library)
  Edo Streets Digital Exhibition (University of Tokyo)
  ‘Nichibunken Databases’ (search the page for ‘maps’ to retrieve sets of images [not browseable], including a collection on Nagasaki – International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto) {February, 2011}
  Tohoku University

• Japan. ‘1710 Nansenbushu Map of the World’ (a description, linked to further comments and an image enlargeable to high res. – Kevin Brown, Geographicus blog, 1 March 2010) {March, 2010}
• Japan. ‘Adventures in oversized imaging: digitizing the Omi Kuni-ezu Japanese Tax Map from 1837’ (Deardra Fuzzell, Branner Earth Sciences Library, Stanford University, 17 November 2015) {December, 2015}
• Japan. Ashida Antique Map Collection (listing and descriptions of 1,400 maps, from the Edo to early Showa periods, with selected images – Meiji University) {May, 2004}
• ‘Japan City Plans 1:12,500. U.S. Army Map Service, 1945-1946’ (high res. images, including bomb damage – Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection) {February, 2007}
• Japan. ‘Digital Archives: Maps’ (National Archives of Japan) {January, 2011}
• Japan. ‘Drawings of Air-raid damaged Sites of 1945’ (138 maps, in high res., first published published in December 1945 by the Records Department of Japan’s First Demobilization Ministry) {October, 2013}
• + Japan. [Exhibition of maps from Muroga Nobuo’s collection] (the exhibition [all in Japanese], comprising low res. maps (both Japanese and Western); ‘Click Here’ for the introductory text, and then select ‘Next’ for the Table of Contents of the Muroga homepage – Kyoto University, 1998) {March, 2002}
• Japan. Ezu (15 low res. maps, including two describing a volcanic eruption) {November, 2005}
• + Japan. ‘Japan Envisions the West: 16th -19th Century Japanese Art from the Kobe City Museum. Bridging Cultures with Maps’ (16 low res. maps of Japan or other regions – an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, 2007-08) {September, 2007}
• Japan. Japanese Historical Maps (about 2,300 high res. maps, viewable with the LUNA 6.0 Browser – East Asian Library, University of California at Berkeley, mounted on the David Rumsey site). [This also forms part of the multi-collection Visual Collections site – select ‘Cartography’, and see also here] {February, 2003; amended June 2008 & April 2009}
• Japan. ‘Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era’ (507 items, c.1600-1867, of which about 100 are atlases and 16 large scroll maps (around 930 maps in all), CONTENTdm, high res. Zoomify files via Macromedia Flash Player; largely from the George H. Beans Collection, supplemented by the George Bonn collection (59 maps); see also ‘George Beans Collection of Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Period’ – University of British Columbia Library). [Also here] {July, 2006; amended June 2011}
• Japan. Kyoto Library (69 high res., zoomable maps) {January 2008}
• Japan. Kyushu University’s Digital Archives project (in Japanese: click on each of the 11 thumbnail maps to bring up a separate page of related images, enlargeable to very high res.) {January, 2011}
• Japan. ‘Mapas Historícos de Japon’ (12 low to medium res. maps, 1668-1996) {July, 2002}
• Japan. [Maps from the Ashida Collection, Meiji University] (select the first bullet’s third prompt for enlargeable, very slow-loading maps, and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th bullets for carto-bibliographies – all in Japanese) {April, 2002}
• Japan – Nagasaki. ‘Old Maps of Nagasaki’ (221 images; registration required – International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto)
• Japan. ‘Old Map Room’ (a large collection of images and information relating to research into land-use change and Japanese cartography (in Japanese)) {November, 2005}
• Japan. Old maps of Japan (low res. images of maps from 42 different mapmakers – Kyushu University). [Also at an alternative address]
• Japan. Premodern Antique Map and Drawing Map Collection (University of Tokushima Library) (200 images)
• Japan, Series L506, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1954- (high res. (though slow-loading) images – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Japan. ‘Studying Urban Geography Using Historical Maps on the Web’ (by Hiroo Kamiya (in Japanese): an illustrated project, identifying change in land-use over time through historical maps; see the abstract – Kanazawa University) {November, 2005}
• Japan – Tokyo. Thematic maps (maps on seven different themes, 1928, enlargeable to high res. – Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library) {June, 2015}
• Japan. Treasures of Keio University (in Japanese, includes enlarged details of four maps of the Keio area of Tokyo [Edo], 1851-61) {April, 2002}
• Japan. University of Manchester Library (49 maps, mostly in Japanese, enlargeable to high res.) {October, 2015}
• Japan. Virtual Museum (in Japanese, about 100 maps, a number from 1927-45, enlargeable to high res. – for an independent commentary in English see ‘Travel through time with these old maps from the Zenrin Virtual Museum’) {November, 2014}
• + Japan. [The world of historical maps] (an online exhibition, with a pdf catalogue and an image gallery of the exhibits, which include Japanese maps of the world and Japan, enlargeable to high res., in Japanese – Tulips, University of Tsukuba Library , October 2007) {October, 2007}
  

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• Korea (a selection of Korean atlases, including those from the Shannon McCune collection, enlargeable to high res. via JPEG2000 – a collaboration between the National Library of Korea and the Library of Congress) {September, 2009}
• Korea (63 high res. maps of Korea, east Asia and Asia as a whole – Henny Savenije) {May, 2003}
• Korea. (34 very low res. maps, accompanying ‘The Journal of Hendrick Hamel’ – Henny Savenije) {May, 2001}
• Korea. ‘Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea’ (full text of Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo island; with an appendix, containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices. By Captain Basil Hall…And a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo languages, by H. J. Clifford (London, 1818) – requires the free DjVu plugin – University of Georgia Libraries, Hargrett Library) {February, 2004}
• Korea. ‘Ch’onha chido’ (13-sheet manuscript atlas of Korea with text [19th century?]; viewable in high res. via JPEG2000 – Library of Congress American Memory) {March, 2008}
• Korea City Plans, U.S. Army Map Service, 1944-1946 (high res. (though slow-loading) images, covering 17 cities – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Korea, Series L552, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1950- (high res. (though slow-loading) images – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Korea through western cartographic eyes (low res. but fast-loading – Henny Savenije)
• Russia (select ‘Sibirica’ for numerous zoomable, medium to high res. images of 17th-19th century maps of Asia and Russia – Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen) {February, 2003}
• Russia. ‘Old Russian Maps – mainly Russian Central Asia (former Turkestan)’ (select ‘Maps I’ for 20 medium to high res. maps – Markus Hauser) {November, 2001}
• Russia. Siberia. Central Siberia, Series N504, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1947- (also: Eastern Siberia, Series N504, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1947- ; and Western Siberia, Series N502, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1955- ; high res. (though slow-loading) images – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Russia. Siberia. ‘Meeting of Frontiers: Digital Collections’ (select from the various links under ‘Maps’ for scans from US and Russian collections, dealing with Alaska and Siberia respectively; in English and Russian – Library of Congress, American Memory) {October, 2009}
• Russia. Siberia. Remezov’s sketchbook (Remezov, Semën Ul’ianovich, 1642-ca. 1720. ‘Khorograficheskaya kniga’ [cartographical sketch-book of Siberia]. MS Russ 72 (6). Houghton Library, Harvard University – from the Leo Bagrow collection, with the maps (1696-7) enlargeable to high res.) {October, 2010}
• Russia – see also under the Continental Europe heading, which may include Asiatic Russia
• Taiwan (described on a blog as ‘327 records, mainly maps of Asia and China’, medium-res. scans, 1951-recent – site in Chinese from the National Repository of Cultural Heritage) {March, 2009}
• + Taiwan. ‘Canal Is Formed When Water Comes: Qing Archival and Cartographical Materials on River Engineering’ (illustrated online exhibition in the National Palace Museum, Taipei) {May, 2012}
• Taiwan. Formosa City Plans, U.S. Army Map Service, 1944-1945 (high res. (though slow-loading) images, covering 26 cities – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Taiwan. ‘Formosa: Map Listing’ (click on ‘Island Maps’ or ‘Map Catalog’ for a selection of high res. 19th and 20th century maps – Reed College, Portland, Oregon) {May, 2005}
• Taiwan. ‘Maps of Formosa’ (a selection of mostly 19th-century maps, enlargeable to high res. – Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1999){February, 2011}
• Taiwan (Formosa), Series L594, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1951- (high res. (though slow-loading) images – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Taiwan. ‘Illustrations: Mapping Taipei’ (29 pdf images, enlargeable to medium res., illustrating Joseph Allen, ‘Mapping Taipei: Representation and Ideology, 1626-1945’, Studies on Asia, Series III, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2005), pp.59-80) {February, 2006}
• Taiwan. ‘Specialized in Antique Maps of China and Formosa/Taiwan. Manuscript Chinese Maps’ (medium res. images of a selection of Chinese and European maps, both MS and printed) {March, 2006}
• ‘Tibet from the collections of the American Geographical Society (10 maps and plans, 1878-1936, enlargeable to high res. via CONTENTdm, of Tibet and Lhasa – University of Wisconsin) {June, 2008}
• Tibet. ‘The Tibet Album: British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950’ (selecting Advanced Search and entering ‘map’ into ‘Free text’ found six enlargeable images of Tibet and Lhasa – PittRivers Museum, Oxford) {June, 2007}
• Tibet. ‘The Tibet Map Institute presents a unique map series of Tibet’ (reproducing or linking to high res. maps of Tibet pre-1950) {December, 2003}
• ‘Vietnam Archive Map Collection’ (‘over 1500 maps on Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia’, high res., mostly from the Army Map Service and related to the Vietnam War; also gazetteers – the Vietnam Center & Archive) {August, 2010}

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Indian Ocean

• Indian Ocean. ‘The secret of eternal life: a recycled Dutch East India Company chart’ (a fragment from a (probably 17th century) chart of the Indian Ocean, enlargeable to high res. – University Library Utrecht) {July, 2012}
• Mauritius. ‘Maps of Mauritius’ (four slow-loading, low res. maps, with brief comments – click on the ‘History’ link for general background information – Encyclopaedia Mauritiana) {July, 2002}
• Mauritius. ‘Gallery’ (includes three medium res. maps – National History Museum of Mauritius) {September, 2004; amended February 2011}
• Seychelles. ‘Seychelles Old Map’ (zoomable high res. image, with discussion, of ‘Map of the Island of Mahé Seychelles. Made in accordance with Ordinance No7 of 1898. Based on survey by Commander Balfour HMS Stork 1890 and showing the principal landed properties as compiled from various plans and other sources and laid down by Traverse of roads and paths, by S.B. Hobbs, Island surveyor 27th Sept 1900’) {June, 2015}

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South Asia

• South Asia. ‘Maps from the Imperial Gazetteer of India (volumes 1-24)’ (25 high res. maps of India and the nearby countries, published by Bartholomew, 1907-09; and other gazetteers – Digital South Asia Library) {January, 2004}
• ‘Maps of South Asia’ (a large, annotated listing of map images (both historical and original) – some on this site, others elsewhere – arranged by time-period – Frances Pritchett, Columbia University) {January, 2006}
• India (an assortment of original and historical maps, from different sources; some, such as the 15 sheets from the Constable series of 1893, at high res. – Ian Poyntz, RootsWeb) {July, 2002}
• India. ‘Mapping India’ (by Manosi Lahiri: medium res. images of a good range of illustrations from the 2012 book with the same title) {March, 2014}
• +India. ‘Maps and Map-making in India’ (online exhibition at the Clark Library, curated by Lisa Lorenzo and Corinne Vieracker, 2014, with enlargeable illustrations – Stephen S. Clark Library, University of Michigan) {August, 2014}
• India and Pakistan, Series U502, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1955- (includes parts of Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and all of East Pakistan [Bangladesh]; high res. (though slow-loading) images – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}

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Southeast Asia

• Dutch East Indies (presumably a large proportion of the total of 11, 500 maps, zoomable to very high res. (after selecting a detail), covering the former Dutch colonies (broadly, the Dutch East Indies, the Dutch Antilles and Surinam), 1850-1950, accessible via the special map search form, where you can specify a particular region – Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam [Het Koninklijk instituut voor de Tropen (KIT)]) {January, 2006; amended March 2007}
• East Indies. ‘Atlas Mutual Heritage’ (‘a data-bank [in English] providing a systematic survey of VOC [Dutch East India Company] trading posts and settlements and illustrative material of these locations’, which can be searched for in English or Dutch (by location etc. or, for maps in general, by selecting ‘Combined Search’, then ‘Keyword’, then ‘map/chart/plan’), leading to high res. but slow-loading images) {July, 2002}
• East Indies. J.H. van Linschoten, Navigatio ac itinerarium Iohannis Hugonis Linscotani in orientalem sive Lusitanorum Indiam (1614) (medium res. images: from the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence – Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini”: Immagini per la storia economica e sociale) {July, 2003}
• East Indies. ‘Kaarten van de VOC’ (598 maps, plans and views (all manuscript?), enlargeable to very high res. – Netherlands National Archives) {June, 2008; amended August 2009}
• East Indies. ‘Perkamenten kaarten van de VOC’ (15 high res. charts, covering the East Indies and beyond, produced for the Dutch East Indies Company – National Archives, The Hague) {December, 2012}
• Indonesia, Series T503, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1954- (high res. (though slow-loading) images – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Indochina and Thailand, Series L506, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1954- (high res. (though slow-loading) images – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• ‘L’ Indochine Coloniale’ (19th & 20th century maps and plans under the headings: Indo-china, Cochin China, Tonkin, Annam) {January, 2006}
• ’South East Asian War – Area of Operations (The Vietnam War)’ (1:250,000 coverage of Indo China and eastern Thailand, 1966, enlargeable to high res.; with separate sections on Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Thailand – Jim Henthorn)) {April, 2005}
• Borneo, Series T531, 1:200,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1944- (high res. images – University of Texas Libraries) {April, 2010}
• Burma. ‘Maps of Burma’ (medium res. images of whole maps and details, 16th-18th centuries – Rare Books & Special Collections, Northern Illinois University Libraries) {May, 2003}
• Burma, Series U542, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1955- (high res. (though slow-loading) images – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• + Moluccas. ‘Strait Through: Magellan to Cook & the Pacific’ (a well-illustrated (very high res.) online exhibition [shown to the public July 2010-January 2011), with sections on the Strait of Magellan, Pacific Ocean, Spice Islands (Moluccas) and ten Explorers, covering the period 1520s to 1770s – curated by John Delaney, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library) {July, 2010}
• Molukken Islands, Series T662, 1:100,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1942- (high res. images – University of Texas Libraries) {April, 2010}
• Papua. ‘Maps related to the history of Papua’ (a selection of, mostly general, maps (select ‘Hollandia Nova’ for the largest group) relating to Papua, Indonesia (formerly Irian Jaya), enlargeable to medium res., from the National Library of Australia – PapuaWeb) {March, 2005}
• Philippines. ‘Paisajes Urbanos de América y Filipinas’ (illustrated with sample, low res. urban plans of North, Central and South America, the Antilles and the Philippines from the Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla, Sección de Mapas y Planos) {November, 2005}
• Philippines, Series S501, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1954- (high res. (though slow-loading) images – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Philippines. ‘The World of 1898: the Spanish-American War’ (clicking on ‘Maps’ leads to selections for Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, which in turn lead to map descriptions and high res. MrSID images from the Library of Congress ‘American Memory Collection’) {January, 2004}
• Singapore. ‘One Historical Map’ app (allows side-by-side comparison with five maps from 1966 – Singapore Land Authority, December 2015) {December, 2015}
• Singapore. ‘Historical street maps available for public use’ (23 editions of historical street maps dating from 1954 to 2009 – Singapore Land Authority, August 2014) {August, 2014}
• Sumatra, Series T511, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1943- (high res. images – University of Texas Libraries) {April, 2010}
• Thailand. ‘Chao Phraya Delta: Old Maps Gallery’ (15 low-medium res. images, 17th-19th centuries – Kasetsart University) {April, 2005}
• Thailand. ‘History of Ayutthaya – Old Cartography’ (medium res. images; with an illustrated essay ‘Mapping Iudea: a Cartographic Exercise’ – the site’s authors are named on the ‘About us’ page) {October, 2012}
• Thailand. Indochina and Thailand, Series L506, 1:250,000, U.S. Army Map Service, 1954- (high res. (though slow-loading) images – University of Texas Libraries) {May, 2007}
• Thailand. ‘The mapping of Thailand: an introduction’ (a lecture, illustrated with medium res. images, with tables and bibliography, given by Dawn Rooney to the International Map Collectors’ Society in 1991) {September, 2008}

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Southwest Asia

• Abkhazia Maps (70 enlargeable maps or map extracts; see also the second page – Abkhazia World) {September, 2009}
• Aden (various series (1906-58), zoomable to high res.; NB, omit the country name at the end of each URL; a post from Brendan Whyte, forwarded to lismaps, 7 February 2012 – National Library of Australia) {February, 2012}
• Armenia. ‘Historical maps’ (medium res. scans of 30 – mostly original, not ‘historical’ maps – Armenica.org) {March, 2007}
• Asia Minor and Middle East (135 high res. images, with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details – Map Collection, University of Melbourne)
• Arabia. ‘Mapping Arabia’ (by James Parry, based on the Bukhari Collection, with an accompanying ‘slide show’ of 17 maps enlargeable to high res.) {March, 2004}
• Bahrain (1942 series, zoomable to high res.; NB, omit the country name at the end of each URL; a post from Brendan Whyte, forwarded to lismaps, 7 February 2012 – National Library of Australia) {February, 2012}
• Black Sea. ‘Pont Euxin, Crimée, Palus Méotide’ (traced (?) outlines from charts of different periods, attributed to Jean-Baptiste d’Anville or his son-in-law Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage, Bibliothèque nationale de France, GE DD 3488 (nos 1-47)) {April, 2012}
• Georgia. ‘Old maps of Georgia made in the 19th century’ (53 high res. details – Wikimedia Commons) {August, 2010}
  

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• Holy Land (the Geography, Cartography section of digitised titles includes (apparently) high res. images, via the free DjVu Browser Plug-in, of titles relating to the Levant, e.g. by Henri Beauvau, Cornelis de Bruyn, Gesta Dei per Francos, Eugene Roger, Jacob Ziegler; also a selection of general atlases [more titles being added regularly] – Jewish National and University Library, Digitized Book Repository) {April, 2006}
• Holy Land (select ‘Middle East Map Collection’ for 136 high res. images that can be greatly enlarged (although the maximum option is slow) – ‘Visual Collections. World Map Collection’, State University System of Florida, PALMM Project) [‘World Map Collections’ appears to be an earlier version of the same site; as also here] {April, 2006}
• Holy Land Maps (an [apparently growing] selection [currently numbering over 100] – of (mostly) high res. images of maps and Jerusalem views, early to 20th century, arranged chronologically – University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries, Map & Imagery Library) {December, 2003}
• Holy Land. ‘Bible Scans’ (20 high res. maps from the Pictorial Bible (1856) and the Handbook of Bible Geography (1870) – Jonathan Hipkiss) {March, 2005}
• Holy Land. ‘Biblical and Holy Land Maps’ (a good selection, from 1700 onwards, taken from a variety of sources – University of Alabama) {April, 2013}
• + Holy Land. ‘Borders and Boundaries: Maps of the Holy Land, 15th-19th centuries’ (nine medium res. map images – exhibition in 2002 at the Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum, Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York) {July, 2002}
• Holy Land. ‘The Eran Laor Cartographic Collection’ (about 1,500 maps of Jerusalem, the Holy Land, Palestine and Israel, but also the world and Middle East, enlargeable to high res. – National Library of Israel). [See another version here] {May, 2015}
• Holy Land. Marino Sanudo, Liber Secretorum fidelium Crucis (medium res. images from the 14th century MS in the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence, including the two maps of the Holy Land and the plans of Jerusalem and Acre – Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini”: Immagini per la storia economica e sociale) {July, 2003}
• Holy Land. ‘The Moldovan Family Holy Land Map Collection’ (94 maps, 1480-1797, enlargeable to high res. – University of Pennsylvania Libraries) {August, 2015}
• Holy Land. ‘Towards the Eternal Center: Israel, Jerusalem, and the Temple’ (a few, low res. maps – Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1996) {November, 2005}
• + Holy Land. ‘Tracks to the Promised Land: Selected Maps of the Holy Land’ (25 maps, zoomable to high res. – 2003 exhibit at the University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries) {August, 2005}
• Holy Land. ‘Zucker Holy Land Travel Manuscript (written by an unknown German scholar 1690-1700, including high res. images of the 85 carefully drawn MS maps taken from various sources – Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, University of Pennsylvania Libraries) {October, 2011}
• + Holy Land – ‘Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia of History’ (medium res. images – Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine exhibition)
• Holy Land – Jerusalem. ‘Ancient maps of Jerusalem’ (over 400 enlargeable, high res. images (1486-1930), available in different formats including MrSID, searchable by author or date and linked to a catalogue entry, preceded by introductory text pages – the Jewish National and University Library and the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem). [Also here]. {December, 2002}
• Holy Land – Jerusalem. Early Maps and Models of Jerusalem [19th century] (three medium res. images) {December, 2001}
• Holy Land. ‘Jerusalem Virtual Library: the academic database on historic Jerusalem’ (click on ‘Maps’ for a selection of maps and views from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) {October, 2008}
• Holy Land see also Palestine
  

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• Iran (various series (WWII), zoomable to high res.; NB, omit the country name at the end of each URL; a post from Brendan Whyte, forwarded to lismaps, 7 February 2012 – National Library of Australia) {February, 2012}
• Iraq (various series (1919-40s), zoomable to high res.; NB, omit the country name at the end of each URL; a post from Brendan Whyte, forwarded to lismaps, 7 February 2012 – National Library of Australia) {February, 2012}
• Jordan (various series (1933-43), zoomable to high res.; NB, omit the country name at the end of each URL; a post from Brendan Whyte, forwarded to lismaps, 7 February 2012 – National Library of Australia) {February, 2012}
• Jordan – Madaba Map (good res. details – Michele Piccirillo, Franciscan Archaeological Institute – from John Abela’s page; also featured on the general site)
• Lebanon (1970s series, zoomable to high res.; NB, omit the country name at the end of each URL ; a post from Brendan Whyte, forwarded to lismaps, 7 February 2012 – National Library of Australia) {February, 2012}
• Palestine (various series (1918-47), zoomable to high res.; NB, omit the country name at the end of each URL; a post from Brendan Whyte, forwarded to lismaps, 7 February 2012 – National Library of Australia) {February, 2012}
• Palestine see also Holy Land
• Qatar National Library (select ‘Explore The Archive – Filter by Type: Map’ for 131 maps, enlargeable to high res.) {November, 2014}
• Turkey. ‘European Cartographers and the Ottoman World 1500–1750: Maps from the Collection of O. J. Sopranos’ (the 143-page catalogue of the 2007 exhibition at the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, by Ian Manners, with a contribution by M. Pinar Emiralioglu, illustrated with 57 medium-res images) {March, 2013}
• Turkey in maps (small, low res. images, arranged by period – Ali Turan) {March, 2001}
• Turkey see also under Continental Europe

Islamic mapping, see under that heading in the Images and Text sections

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