New old maps from the National Library of Scotland.
With around two million cartographic items, the NLS map collection is the largest in Scotland and one of the largest in the world. NLS holdings cover all parts of the globe, and range from early atlases and manuscript maps to current digital mapping.
The National Library of Scotland map collection includes:
- Over 1.5 million sheet maps
- 15,000 atlases
- 100,000 maps on microfilm
- Growing volumes of digital mapping
- Gazetteers, cartographic reference books and periodicals
- Map ephemera.
New online! View more than 100 maps of Great Britain and the wider world, as part of the Signet Library map collection (1640s–1930s).
Around half of the maps relate to England, Wales, and Ireland and the collection includes several important early editions and unusual maps.
