Cartographic References by Author
(These are references that are cited in Old World Auctions lot descriptions)
Cartographic References by Topic
(This is not an exhaustive list, but these are some of our favorites)
World & Celestial
Kanas, Nick, Star Maps History, Artistry, and Cartography Second Edition, Springer-Praxis Books, New York, 2012.Manasek, Francis J., A Treatise on Moon Maps: Visual Studies on Paper, 1610-1910, Bragg Hill Press, Hanover, NH, 2023.Shirley, Rodney, The Mapping of the World - Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700, The Holland Press Limited, London,1987.
North America
Burden, Philip D., The Mapping of North America - A List of Printed Maps 1511-1670, Raleigh Publications, Rickmansworth, 1996.Burden, Philip D., The Mapping of North America II - A List of Printed Maps 1671-1700, Raleigh Publications, Rickmansworth, 2007.Goss, John, The Mapping of North America -Three Centuries of Map-Making 1500-1860, The Wellfleet Press, 1990.Kershaw, Kenneth A., Early Printed Maps of Canada, Volumes I-IV, Kershaw Publishing, Hamilton, Ontario, 1993. (See online edition below)Portinaro, Pierluigi & Knirsch, Franco, The Cartography of North America 1500-1800, Facts on File Inc., 1987.Pritchard, Margaret Beck & Henry G. Taliaferro, Degrees of Latitude Mapping Colonial America, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, 2002.Schwartz, Seymore I. & Ralph E. Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1980.Sellers, John R. & Patricia Molen Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789, Library of Congress, Washington, 1981.
United States
Blevins, Bruce H., Mapping Wyoming, Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, Connecticut, 2007.Cumming, W. P., The Southeast in Early Maps, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1973.Day, James M., Maps of Texas 1527-1900, The Pemberton Press, Austin, 1964.Delaney, John, Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State 1666-1888, Princeton University Library, Princeton, 2014.Fitzpatrick, Gary L. The Early Mapping of Hawai'i. London: Kegan Paul International, 1987.Karpinski, Louis C., Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan, 1804-1880, Michigan Historical Commission, Lansing, Michigan, 1931.Lemmon, Alfred, John McGill & Jason Wiese, Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, 2003.Martin, James C. & Robert Sidney Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900, Texas State Historical Association, Austin, 1999.McCorkle, Barbara Backus & Edward H. Dahl, New England in Early Printed Maps 1513-1800: An Illustrated Carto-Bibliography, The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, 2001.McLaughlin, Glen, The Mapping of California as an Island: An Illustrated Checklist, The California Map Society, 1995.Phillips, P. Lee, Maps and Views of Washington and District of Columbia, Terra Nova Press, Norwich, Vermont, 1996.Ristow, Walter, American Maps and Mapmakers - Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, Wayne State University Press, 1985.Stephenson, Richard W. & Marianne M. McKee, Virginia in Maps: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, 2000.Wagner, Henry & Charles Camp, The Plains & the Rockies, John Howell-Books, San Francisco, 1982.Wagner, Henry, The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800, Volumes I & II, Martino Publishing, Connecticut, 1999.Wheat, Carl I., Mapping the Transmississippi West, Volumes I-IV, Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, Connecticut, 2004.Wooldridge, William C., Mapping Virginia From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2012.
South America
Dym, Jordana & Karl Offen, Mapping Latin America, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2011.
Europe
Darlington, Ida & James Howgego, Printed Maps of London circa 1553-1850, George Philip & Son Ltd, London, 1964.Ginsberg, William B., Printed Maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic 1482-1601, Septentrionalium Press, New York, 2006.Shirley, Rodney, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477-1650, The Holland Press Limited, London, 1980.Shirley, Rodney, Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650-1750, The British Library, London, 1988.Stylianou, Andreas & Judith, The History of the Cartography of Cyprus, Zavallis Press Ltd, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1980.Zacharakis, Christos G., A Catalogue of Printed Maps of Greece 1477-1800, Samourkas Foundation, Athens, 1992.
Africa
Betz, Richard L., The Mapping of Africa: A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700, Hes & De Graaf Publishers, t' Goy-Houten, the Netherlands, 2007.Norwich, Oscar I., Norwich's Maps of Africa (2nd Edition), Terra Nova Press, Norwich, Vermont, 1997.
Asia
Ankary, Khaled Al, The Arabian Peninsula in Old European Maps, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 2001.Caboara, Marco, Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735, Brill HES & De Graaf, Leiden, 2022.Davison, Dr. Julian & Tan Lay Kee, Mapping the Continent of Asia, Antiques of the Orient Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 1994.Hubbard, Jason C., Japoniae Insulae: The Mapping of Japan, Hes & de Graaf Publishers BV, Houten, Netherlands, 2012.Laor, Eran, Maps of the Holy Land Cartobibliography of Printed Maps, 1475-1900, Meridian Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1986.Lutz, Walter, Japan A Cartographic Vision, Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1994.Parry, Dr. David E., The Cartography of the East Indian Islands, Countrywide Editions, London, 2005.Suarez, Thomas, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia, Periplus Editions Ltd., Singapore, 1999.
Pictorial Maps
Bryars, Tim & Tom Harper, A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps, The British Library, London, 2014.Curtis, Philip & Jokob Sondergard Pedersen, War Map: Pictorial Conflict Maps 1900-1950, The Map House, London, 2016.Hornsby, Stephen J., Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2017.
Online Cartographic References
(These are free online resources)
Broecke, Marcel van den, “Ortelius' Atlas Maps”https://orteliusmaps.com/ort_background.html
Daniel's Dream Maphttps://daniels-dream-map.com/
The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island at Stanford Universityhttps://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/zb871zd0767
Harley, J. B. & David Woodward, The History of Cartography, Volumes 1-6, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987-2020.https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html
Ira Lourie's Johnson U.S. Map Projecthttps://www.johnsonmapproject.org/index.php
Kershaw, Kenneth A., Early Printed Maps of Canada, Volumes II-IV, Kershaw Publishing, Hamilton, Ontario, 1993.https://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/Kershaw/contentsndx.htm
McCorkle, Barbara Backus, A Carto-Bibliography of the Maps in Eighteenth-Century British and American Geography Books, Digital Publishing Services, University of Kansas Libraries, 2009.https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/5afa88d6-3ac7-41f0-9daa-7ed7efea4dab/content
McGuirk, Donald L., The Last Great Cartographic Myth: Mer de l'Ouest, Mapthematics LLC, 2020.https://sea-of-the-west.info/title
Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection at Cornell University Libraryhttps://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/
“Printed Maps of the Carolinas: 1590-1800,” MapForum, 2022.https://mapforum.com/2022/02/28/printed-maps-of-the-carolinas-1590-1800/
Stokes, I. N. Phelps, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, Robert H. Dodd, New York, 1915-1928.https://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_5800727_001/index.html
Theodore de Bry's Great Voyages and Lesser Voyageshttps://bodmerlab.unige.ch/recits-et-images/debry/#/grands-voyages/Preface