================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 From: Gillian Hutchinson <[log in to unmask]> Subject: National Maritime Museum (London) charts and maps online List members may like to know that the National Maritime Museum has now relaunched its COLLECTIONS ONLINE web page Collections online <http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections> The site previously contained 500 images and descriptions of sea charts and maps from the loose sheet collections, including a substantial proportion of manuscripts which had never before been published. To this we have added a further 600 entries selected from our bound manuscripts. These include isolarii by Buondelmonti, Sonetti and Millo; portolan atlases by Martines, Agnese, Oliva, Sanches, Freducci, Dousaigo and anonymous Portuguese, French and Italian chartmakers; the South Seas waggoners of Ringrose and Hack, selections from the Dartmouth Collection of 16th and 17th century surveys of Ireland, the Channel Islands, Portsmouth and Tangier; Dummer's 17th-century survey of English ports, an early 18th century survey of French ports and de Surville's late 18th century survey of ports in Spanish America. The site has an excellent zoom tool which allows you to see the high resolution images in fine detail. I'd welcome comments (and corrections). Happy browsing! Gillian Hutchinson Curator of the History of Cartography National Maritime Museum Greenwich London SE10 9NF 020 8312 6654 http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/