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MAP REFERENCES
The following reference books are among those used to identify and provide further information on maps listed in this web site. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography. We strongly encourage map collectors to acquire reference materials so they can learn more about their maps and map collecting in general.
Betz, Richard L., with Penelope W. Betz. The Mapping of Africa: A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700. 't Goy-Houten, The Netherlands: HES & De Graaf Publishers, 2007.
Broecke, Marcel P.R. van den. Ortelius Atlas Maps, an Illustrated Guide, The Netherlands: HES Publishers, 1996.
Burden, Philip D. The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps 1511-1670. Rickmansworth: Raleigh Publications, 1996.
Campbell, Tony. The Earliest Printed Maps 1472-1500. London: The British library, 1987.
Campbell, Tony. Map Collector’ Series, No. 24: New Light on the Jansson-Visscher Maps of New England. Map Collectors’ Circle, 1965.
Cumming, William P., et al. The Discovery of North America. London: Elek, 1971.
Cumming, William P., et al. The Exploration of North America 1630-1776. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.
Cumming, William P. The Southeast in Early Maps. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
French, Josephine (editor). Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers A-D. Tring: Map Collector Publications Ltd., 1999.
Goss, John. The Mapmakers Art: An Illustrated History of Cartography. Rand McNally, 1993.
Goss, John. The Mapping of North America: Three Centuries of Map-Making 1500-1860. Secaucus: The Wellfleet Press, 1990.
Goss, John. Blaeu’s The Grand Atlas of the 17th Century World. Barnes and Noble Books, 1997.
Johnson, Adrian. America Explored. New York: The Viking Press, 1974.
Karrow, Robert W. Jr. Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps. Chicago: Speculum Orbis Press, 1993.
Klemp, Egon. Africa on Maps Dating From the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century. Leipzig: 1968.
Krogt, Peter van der. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, vol. 1 (Mercator Hondius), 2 (Blaeu), and 3 (Ortelius). 't Goy-Houten: HES Publishers,1997, 2000, 2003.
Lorant, Stefan. The New World: The First Pictures of America. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pierce, Inc., 1946.
Map Collectors’ Circle. Map Collectors’ Series on African Maps, No. 6, 17,29, 30, 47, 48, 61, 82.
Manasek, Frank J. Collecting Old Maps, Norwich, Vt.: Terra Nova Press, 1998.
Moreland, Carl, and David Bannister. Antique Maps. 2nd. ed. Oxford: Phaidon-Cristie's, 1986.
Nebenzahl, Kenneth. Maps of the Holy Land. New York: Abbeville Press, 1986.
Nebenzahl, Kenneth. Atlas of the American Revolution. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, 1975.
Norwich, Oscar I. (edited by Jeffery Stone). Norwich’s Maps of Africa. Norwich, Vt.: Terra Nova Press, 1997.
Phillips, Philip Lee. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library Of Congress. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909 and later.
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Ptolemaeus, Claudius. Geographia Strassburg 1513 (with an introduction by R.A. Skelton). Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1966.
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Ristow, Walter W. American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985.
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Schilder, Gunter with Klaus Stopp, Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, vol VI: Dutch folio-sized single sheet maps with decorative borders, 1604-60, and vol VII, Cornelis Claesz,. Alphen aan den Rijn, Holland: Canaletto Repro-Holland, 2000.
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Shirley, Rodney W. The Mapping of the World: Early Printed Maps, 1472-1700. London: New Holland Publishers, Ltd.,1993.
Shirley, Rodney W. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477-1650. West Sussex: Antique Atlas Publications, 1980. -
Stevens, Henry N. Ptolemy's Geography: A Brief Account of All The Printed Editions Down to 1730. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Ltd., (1908) 1972.
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Stevenson, Edward Luther (translated and edited). Claudius Ptolemy: The Geography. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1991.
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Suarez, Thomas. Early Mapping of Southeast Asia. Singapore: Periplus Editions Ltd., 1999.
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Tooley, R.V. The Mapping of America. London: The Holland Press, Ltd., 1980.
Tooley, R.V. Collectors' Guide to Maps of the African Continent and Southern Africa. London: Carta Press, 1969.
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