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Wilma George, Animals and Maps (London: Secker & Warburg, 1969).
GA 203 G4
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Rodney W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps, 1472-1700, 4th ed. (Early World Press [mapsage.com], Riverside, CT, 2001). [With Corrigenda and Addenda (250 items) to the original ed., 1984. Remarkably comprehensive, well-illustrated catalogue (474 plates) of all known printed maps of the world, including separately printed maps, wall-maps and maps in books.]
G 1015 S44
QEII MAP-REF

Raleigh A. Skelton, Explorers' Maps: Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958).
GA 203 S55 1958
MARINE and CNS

John P. Snyder, Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections (Chicago University Press, 1993).
GA 110 S576 1993
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Norman J. W. Thrower, Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996). [Based on the author's 1972 book Maps & Man].
GA 201 T47 1996
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Helen M. Wallis and Arthur H. Robinson (eds), Cartographical Innovations: An International Handbook of Mapping Terms to 1900 (Tring: Map Collector Publications in association with the International Cartographic Association, 1987). [Each of the 191 entries provides a definition, details of innovation and diffusion, and bibliography.]
GA 102.2 C37 1987
QEII MAP-REF

Peter Whitfield, The Charting of the Oceans: Ten Centuries of Maritime Maps (London: British Library, 1996).
GA 359 W47 1996
QEII BOOKSTACKS

John A. Wolter and Ronald E. Grim (eds), Images of the World: the Atlas through History (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997).
GA 300 I42 1997
QEII BOOKSTACKS

David Woodward (ed), Art and Cartography. Six Historical Essays (The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography at The Newberry Library; Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1987). [Contains a number of important essays on this rarely-treated aspect.]
GA 108 A78 1987
QEII MAP-REF

David Woodward (ed), Five Centuries of Map-Printing (The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography at The Newberry Library; Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1975). [Essential for the understanding of map production processes as a significant determinant of map content.]
GA 150 F58 1975
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas: Essays Commemorating the Quadricentennial of his Death, 1598-1998, ed. by Marcel van den Broecke, Peter van der Krogt, and Peter Meurer. Houten, Netherlands: HES Publishers, 1998.
GA 913 O77 A37 1998
QEII MAP-REF

Ambroziak, Brian M., and Jeffrey R. Ambroziak. Infinite Perspectives: Two Thousand Years of Three-Dimensional Mapmaking. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999 (CH, Apr'00).
GA 125 A48 1999
QEII MAP-REF

Andrews, J.H. A Paper Landscape: The Ordnance Survey in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Oxford, 1975.
GA 66 G7 A66
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Bagrow, LeoHistory of Cartography, ed. Raleigh A. Skelton, revised 2nd ed. (Chicago: Precedent, 1985).
GA 201 B313 1985
QEII MAP-REF

Black, Jeremy. Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past. Yale, 1997 (CH, Nov'97).
D 13 B54 1997
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Black, Jeremy. Maps and Politics. Chicago, 1997 (CH, Jul'97).
GA 108.7 B58 1997
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Burden, Philip D. The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps, 1511-1670. Rickmansworth, Herts.: Raleigh Publishers, 1996.
GA 401 B87 1996
QEII MAP-REF, and CNS BOOKSTACKS

Campbell, Tony Early Maps (New York: Abbeville, 1981).
GA 201 C35
QEII MAP-REF and CNS OVERSIZE

Campbell, TonyThe Earliest Printed Maps, 1472-1500 (London: British Library; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
GA 231 C3 1987
QEII MAP-REF

Cartographical Innovations: An International Handbook of Mapping Terms to 1900, ed. by _Helen M. Wallis and Arthur H. Robinson. Tring, Herts, UK: Map Collector Publications, 1987.
GA 102.2 C37 1987
QEII MAP-REF

Conley, Tom. The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France. Minnesota, 1996 (CH, May'97).
GA 863.5 A1 C66 1996
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Crosby, Alfred W. The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600. Cambridge, 1997 (CH, May'97).
D 202 C76 1997
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Cumming, William P. The Southeast in Early Maps. 3rd ed. Rev. and enl. by Louis DeVorsey. North Carolina, 1998. Orig. ed., 1958.
GA 405 C8
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Dekker, Elly, and Peter van der Krogt. Globes from the Western World. Zwemmer, 1993.
GA 260 D44 1993
QEII MAP-REF

Delano-Smith, Catherine, and Elizabeth M. Ingram. Maps in Bibles, 1500-1600: An Illustrated Catalogue. Libraririe Droz, 1991.
BS 630 S45 1991
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Delano Smith, Catherine & Roger J.P. Kain, English Maps: a History (London: British Library, 1999).
GA 791 D45 1999
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Dilke, O.A.W. Greek and Roman Maps. Cornell, 1985.
G 84 D45
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Dilke, O.A.W. The Roman Land Surveyors: An Introduction to the Agrimensores. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1971.
TA 516 D55 1971
QEII STORAGE-L3

Edney, Matthew H. Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843. Chicago, 1997 (CH, Dec'97).
GA 1131 E36 1997
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Edson, Evelyn. Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World. London: British Library, 1997.
GA 221 E37 1997
QEII MAP-REF

From Sea Charts to Satellite Images: Interpreting North American History through Maps, ed. by David Buisseret; introd. by J.B. Harley. Chicago, 1990 (CH, Jun'91).
E 179 F84 1990
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Gambi, Lucio. The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, tr. by Paul Tucker. George Braziller, 1997.
G 1983 G36 1997
QEII MAP

Geography and Enlightenment, ed. by David N. Livingstone and Charles W.J. Withers. Chicago, 1999 (CH, Apr'00).
G 70 G4432 1999
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Gould, Peter R., and Rodney White. Mental Maps. 2nd ed. Allen & Unwin, 1986.
G 71 .5 G68 1986
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Harley, J. Brian. Maps and the Columbian Encounter. Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin, 1990.
GA 221 M35 1990
QEII MAP-REF

Harvey, P.D.A. Mappa Mundi: The Hereford World Map. Toronto, 1996 (CH, Dec'96).
GA 304 R5 H37 1996
QEII MAP-REF

Harvey, Paul D.A.The History of Topographical Maps: Symbols, Pictures and Surveys (London: Thames & Hudson, 1980). [Well-illustrated, detailed and wide-ranging account, along developmental lines, of map history from the Old and New Worlds. Useful bibliographies.]
GA 201 H37 (2 copies)
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Harvey, Paul D.A. Medieval Maps (London: The British Library, 1991). [Excellently illustrated overview, by genre, of extant maps from Europe up to the fifteenth century.]
GA 221 H37 1991
QEII MAP-REF

The History of Cartography, ed. by J. Brian Harley and David Woodward. 2v. Chicago, 1987 et seq. 2v., 2nd vol. in 3 books (CH, Mar'93). Volume 3 (forthcoming).
GA 201 H53 1987
QEII MAP-REF

Hodgkiss, Alan G.Understanding Maps: A Systematic History of Their Use and Development (Folkestone: Dawson, 1981). [A systematic survey of map development focusing on the `art and technique' of 'using maps as a visual means of communicating'.]
GA 105.3 H62
QEII MAP-REF

___. How to Lie with Maps. Chicago, 1996.
G 108.7 M66 1996
QEII BOOKSTACKS

The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design, and Use of Past Environments, ed. by Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels. Cambridge, 1988.
NX 650 L34 I26 1988
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Karrow, Robert W., Jr. Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps: BioBibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570. Speculum Orbis Press, 1993.
GA 198 K37 1993
QEII MAP-REF

Kimble, George H.T. Geography in the Middle Ages. London: Methuen, 1938.
G 89 K5 1968
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Konvitz, Josef W. Cartography in France, 1660-1848: Science, Engineering, and Statecraft. Chicago, 1987.
GA 861 K66 1987
QEII MAP-REF

Lillesand, Thomas M., and Ralph W. Kiefer. Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation. 4th ed. Wiley, 1994.
G 70.4 L54 2000
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Longitude Symposium (1993: Harvard University). The Quest for Longitude: The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993, ed. by William J.H. Andrewes. Harvard, 1997 (CH, Apr'97).
QB 225 L66 1993
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Lynam, EdwardThe Mapmaker's Art: Essays on the History of Maps (London: Batchworth, 1953). [Not yet entirely superseded.]
GA 791 L92
QEII MAP-REF

Madej, Ed. Cartographic Design Using ArcView GIS. Albany, NY: OnWord Press, 2001.
GA 102.4 E4 M32 2001
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Mappings, ed. by Denis Cosgrove. London: Reaktion Books, 1999.
GF 21 M37 1999
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Mollat du Jourdin, Michel and Monique de la Roncière, Sea Charts of the Early Explorers: 13th to 17th Century (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1984). [Well-illustrated].
GA 359 M6513 1984
QEII MAP

Monarchs, Ministers and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe, ed. by David Buisseret. The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures on the History of Cartography. Chicago, 1992.
GA 781 M76 1992
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Monmonier, Mark. Drawing the Line: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy. Henry Holt, 1995.
G 108.7 M65 1995
QEII BOOKSTACKS

___. Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography. Chicago, 1989 (CH, Feb'90).
PN 4888 M37 M66 1989
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Mukerji, Chandra. From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism. Columbia, 1983 (CH, May'8
HC 51 M77 1983
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Nicolet, Claude. Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire. Michigan, 1991. Transl. from L'Inventaire du Monde: Géographie et politique aux origines de l'empire Romain. Paris: 1988.
G 86 N5313 1991
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Nordenski, Adolf Erik öld, Facsimile-Atlas to the Early History of Cartography (New York: Dover Publications, 1973). [Reprint of the original ed., 1889].
G 1025 N7213 1973
QEII OVERSIZE

Nordenski, Adolf Erik öld, Periplus: an Essay on the Early History of Charts and Sailing-Directions (New York: B. Franklin, 1967). [Reprint of the original ed., 1897].
G 1025 N73
QEII OVERSIZE

Pedley, Mary Sponberg. Bel et Utile: The Work of Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers. Tring, Herts, UK: Map Collector Publications, 1992.
GA 236 P42 1992
QEII MAP-REF

Post, J.B. An Atlas of Fantasy. Mirage Press, 1973.
GR 940 P68 1973
QEII BOOKSTACKS and
G 3122 P6 1979 (revised edition)
QEII MAP

Ptolemy. Cosmographia. Bologna, 1477, introd. by R.A. Skelton. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1963.
G 1005 1477 S5 1963
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Ristow, Walter W. American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the 19th Century. Wayne State, 1985.
GA 405 R57 1985
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Robinson, Arthur H. Early Thematic Mapping in the History of Cartography. Chicago, 1982.
GA 201 R63
QEII MAP-REF

Russell, Jeffrey Burton. Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians. Praeger, 1997.
E 112 R93 1991
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Skelton, R.A. Explorers' Maps: Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery. Praeger, 1958.
GA 203 555 1958
MARINE, and CNS, BOOKSTACKS

Smail, Daniel Lord. Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille. Cornell, 2000.
GA 865 M37 S63 2000
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. Walker, 1995 (CH, Mar'96).
QB 225 S64 1995
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Stommel, Henry. Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts. Vancouver: British Columbia, 1984.
GA 359 S76
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Thrower, Norman J.W. Maps & Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society. Chicago, 1996. Revised edition ofMaps and Man (CH, Sep'96).
GA 201 T47 1996
QEII BOOKSTACKS

Whitfield, Peter. New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. Routledge, 1998 (CH, Dec'98).
G 81 W47 1998
QEII MAP-REF

Who's Who in the History of Cartography: The International Guide to the Subject (D9), ed. by Mary Alice Lowenthal. Tring, Herts, UK: Map Collector Publications, 1998.
GA 102 .25 I57 1998
QEII MAP

Zandvliet, Kees. Mapping for Money: Maps, Plans and Topographic Paintings and Their Role in Dutch Overseas Expansion during the 16th and 17th Centuries. Amsterdam: Batavian Lion International, 1998.
GA 923.5 A1 Z36 1998
QEII MAP

JOURNALS

Cartography and Geographic Information Systems Bethesda, MD: American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, 1990- .
QEII PERIODICALS

Mercator's World: The Magazine of Maps, Atlases, Globes, and Charts. Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Company, 1996- . Absorbed The Map Collector in 1996. Six issues annually.
QEII PERIODICALS

Terrae Incognitae. Annals of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969- .
QEII PERIODICALS


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