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A large collection of c. 11,000 map sheets and c. 250 atlases of the Dutch colonies from the former library of the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Tropical Institute), a State loan since 2013.


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Van Keulen Maps. Collection of 334 hand-drawn charts on paper with pre-printed compass lines, covering the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, the Mediterranean, West-Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, dating from the first half of the eighteenth century (1704-1755). The charts belonged to the company archive of the Van Keulen publishing.


Digitised Leiden Maps and Atlases collection available in Digital

Full descriptions are available in the Leiden University Library Catalogue. One can browse and search the catalogue by the keywords "kitlv", resource type "maps" and the "view online" link directs to the images in Digital Collections. Description


Exceptional collection of maps and atlases donated to Leiden University

Exceptional collection of maps and atlases donated to Leiden University Libraries Published on 09 December 2021 Private collectors John Steegh and Harrie Teunissen from Dordrecht have donated their entire collection of maps, city plans and atlases to Leiden University Libraries (UBL).


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Maps were part of their intellectual conversations. The majority of Japanese maps in the Leiden University Library originate in the collections of Phillip Franz von Siebold (1796-1866), a surgeon of the Dutch East India Company who documented all aspects of Japanese life at an unprecedented scale during his stay in Japan from 1823 to 1829.


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The platform provides access to over 1,400 digitised maps of Southeast Asia from the collections of the National Library Board Singapore (307 maps), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Yale University (150 maps), Bodleian Libraries - University of Oxford (387 maps ) and Leiden University Libraries (UBL) (593 maps).


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Overview Access In addition to the Bodel Nijenhuis Collection, the map collections of the former library of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), and the map collection of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the collection of Maps and Atlases includes several smaller sub…


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Digitised Leiden Maps and Atlases collection available in Digital Collections Published on 01 December 2020 Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than 20.000 maps, atlases and topographical prints and drawings available in Digital Collections.


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Leiden University Maps and Atlases Collection, a repository of over 100,000 maps collected and held by the Leiden University Library since its creation in 1587.


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DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THE LEIDEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES GEOREFERENCER TOOL 1. By clicking on the orange button pictured (Fig. 1), you will be taken to the Leiden Georeferencer tool and assigned a random map from our Special Collections. Click the ''This map'' tab to view the map's title, date, and other publication information.


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Three enormous maps of China, created during the reign of three different emperors of the Qing dynasty, have now been made available in open access and are downloadable via Leiden University Libraries' (UBL) Digital Collections.


Digitised Leiden Maps and Atlases collection available in Digital

Type of map. Topographic (10) City map (0) Thematic (18) Nautical (102) Building (1) Unknown (0) Scale. < 1:10.000 (2)


Digitised Leiden Maps and Atlases collection available in Digital

One of the largest collections of maps of the former Dutch colonies is thereby accessible via Internet for scientists, cartographers and other interested parties in the Netherlands and abroad. For more background information click here A service provided by Leiden University Libraries - Disclaimer


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The collection of maps and atlases consists of approximately 100,000 map sheets (including c. 3,000 manuscript maps), 3,500 atlases and 25,000 topographical prints and drawings.