page_title: Map collection
hierarchical_section_title: Map collection
caption_attribution_description: English: World map, included in the Doncker sea atlas, 1659 edition (created by Doncker, Hendrick, 1626-1699), acquired by the Australian Government in 1909, as part of the Petherick Collection of the National Library of Australia.[1] ↑ National Library of Australia - Doncker sea atlas
context_page_description: A map collection or map library is a storage facility for maps, usually in a library, archive, or museum, or at a map publisher or public-benefit corporation, and the maps and other cartographic items stored within that facility.
  Sometimes, map collections are combined with graphic sheets, manuscripts and rare prints in a single department. In such cases, the expression "map collection" refers to the whole of the cartographic collection holdings.
context_section_description: A map collection or map library is a storage facility for maps, usually in a library, archive, or museum, or at a map publisher or public-benefit corporation, and the maps and other cartographic items stored within that facility.
  Sometimes, map collections are combined with graphic sheets, manuscripts and rare prints in a single department.  In such cases, the expression "map collection" refers to the whole of the cartographic collection holdings.
caption: Visscher, Cl.J., World Map. 1652., in Doncker, Hendrick, Sea Atlas (1659 ed.), from the map collection of the National Library of Australia.
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