03 Nov 2008

HKUST Antique Maps [of China] Database
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Library, Hong Kong, China.
Self-description:
"The Antique Maps of China collection includes more than 230 maps, charts, pictures, books and atlases. It represents almost all samples of China maps produced by European cartographers from the 16th to 19th centuries. This cartographic archive vividly records the long history of cross-cultural exchanges between China and the West."
Site contents:
* Search and Browse functions;
* Geographic Regions: World, Pacific Ocean, South Asia, Southeast Asia, (Burma, Philippines, Vietnam), East Asia (China, Anhui, Beijing, Dongbei Diqu, Fujian (Fuzhou, Xiamen), Gansu, Guangdong (Guangzhou, Shangchuan Dao, Zhujiang Kou), Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hong Kong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Macau, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan (Chin-men hsien, P'eng-hu hsien, Zeelandia), Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang (Hangzhou, Zhoushan Qundao), Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Siberia, Middle East, Russia (Baikal, Lake, Region, Russian Far East, Sakhalin);
* Map Makers, Engravers, etc: Aa - Pieter van der, Allard - Carel, Anville - Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', Barbuda - Luis Jorge de, Belcher - Edward, Bellin - Jacques Nicolas, Berghaus - Heinrich Karl Wilhelm, Blaeu - Joan, Blaeu - Willem Janszoon, Bolton - Solomon, Bonne - Rigobert, Botero - Giovanni, Bowen - Emanuel, Bry - Theodor de, Cantelli - Giacomo, Castner - Gaspar, Commelin - Isaac, Condet - Claas, Condet - Gerardus, Cook - James, Coronelli - Vincenzo, Dalrymple - Alexander, Dudley - Robert, DuVal - P., Elia - Pasquale M. d', Fries - Lorenz, Gastaldi - Giacomo, Goos - Pieter, Guignes - Chretien-Louis-Joseph De, Harris - John, Heath - Leopold George, Hebert - Lewis, Herbert - William, Herrera y Tordesillas - Antonio de, Hondius - Hendrik, Hondius - Jodocus, Houdan - Francois d', Huddart - Joseph, Huggins - W. J, Jansson - Jan, Jode - Cornelis de, Keulen - Gerard van, Keulen - Johannes van, Klaproth - Julius von, La Perouse - Jean-Francois de Galaup, Linschoten - Jan Huygen van, Loon - J. van, Martini - Martino, Meares - John, Mercator - Gerhard, Mercator - Rumold, Moll - Herman, Muenster - Sebastian, Mortier - Pierre, Ortelius - Abraham, Petrini - Paolo, Ptolemy, Purchas - Samuel, Quad - Matthias, Ramusio - Giovanni Battista, Rapkin - J, Ricci - Matteo, Robert de Vaugondy - Gilles, Ross - Daniel, Sanson - Guillaume, Sanson - Nicolas, Schedel - Hartmann, Schenk - Peter, Seller - John, Seutter - Matthaeus, Stoecklein - Joseph, Speed - John, Sprent - James, Teixeira - Joao, Thornton - John, Valck - G., Valentijn - Francois, Vandermaelen - Philippe, Visscher - Nicolaes, Waldseemueller - Martin, Weller - Edward, Wit - Frederik de, Wyld - James, Zhan - Zhilian, Zhu - Xilin;
* Quick Links; Collections; Services and Information; Guides to Resources.
URL http://lbxml.ust.hk/mp/main.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract. Access to it has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300