Selected Bibliography
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Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Gallery. 1952. The World Encompassed: An Exhibition of the History of Maps Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, October 7 to November 23. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery.
Broecke, M. P. R. van den. 2011. Ortelius Atlas Maps: An Illustrated Guide. Houten: Hes & de Graaf.
Broecke M. P. R. van den, P. C. J. van der Krogt, and Peter H. Meurer. 1998. Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas: Essays Commemorating the Quadricentennial of His Death, 1598–1998. Houten: Hes & de Graaf
Brotton, Jerry. 2013. A History of the World in Twelve Maps. New York: Viking.
Brown, Basil J. W. 1932. Astronomical Atlases, Maps, and Charts: An Historical and General Guide. London: Search Publications.
Burden, Philip D. 2007. The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps. Rickmansworth Herts: Raleigh.
Campbell, Tony. 1988. The Earliest Printed Maps 1472–1500: Describing the Maps Listed in Marcel Destombes’s ‘Catalogue Des Cartes Gravées Au Xve Siècle’ of 1952. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Cook, James and J. C Beaglehole. 1955–1974. The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery. 4 vols. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press.
Dekker, Elly and Peter C. J. van der Krogt. Globes from the Western World. London: I.B. Tauris.
Destombes, Marcel, ed. 1964. Mappemondes, A.D. 1200–1500: Catalogue prepare par la Commissiondes Cartes Anciennes del’Union Geographique Internationale. Amsterdam: Nico Israel.
Goff, Frederick. 1964. Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections. New York: Bibliographical Society of America.
Hagen, Gottfried. 2012. ‘Kātip Çelebi's Maps and the Visualization of Space in Ottoman Culture’ Osmanlı Araştırmaları 40: 283–93.
Harley, J. B, David Woodward, et al., ed. 1987–. The History of Cartography. 6 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Harris, Elizabeth. 1985. ‘The Waldseemüller World Map: A Typographic Appraisal’, Imago Mundi 35: 30–53.
Karrow, Robert. 1993. Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps: Bibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius 1570, Based on Leo Bagrow's Ortelii Catalogus Cartographorum. Chicago: Newberry Library.
Keuning, Johannes. 1951. ‘The Novus Atlas of Johannes Janssonius’, Imago Mundi 8: 71–98.
Kline, Naomi Reed. 2001. Maps of Medieval Thought: The Hereford Paradigm. Woodbridge: Boydell.
Koeman, Cornelis and P. C. J. van der Krogt. 2003. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici. Goy-Houten: HES & de Graaf.
Krogt, Peter C. J. van der. 1993. Globi Neerlandici: The Production of Globes in the Low Countries. Utrecht: H & S.
Krogt, Peter C. J van der. 2001. The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World's Greatest Globe Maker. Boston: Brill.
Manners, Ian and Emiralioğlu M. Pinar. 2010. European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500– 1750: Maps from the Collection of O. J. Sopranos. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Mickwitz, Ann-Mari, Leena Miekkavaara, et al. 1979–1989. The A. E. Nordenskiöld Collection in the Helsinki University Library: Annotated Catalogue of Maps Made Up to 1800. 4 vols. Helsinki: Helsinki University Library.
Mollat, Michel and Monique de La Roncière. 1984. Sea Charts of the Early Explorers: 13th to 17th Century. New York: Thames and Hudson.
Harley, J. B, David Woodward, et al., ed. 1987–. The History of Cartography. 6 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Harris, Elizabeth. 1985. ‘The Waldseemüller World Map: A Typographic Appraisal’, Imago Mundi 35: 30–53.
Karrow, Robert. 1993. Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps: Bibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius 1570, Based on Leo Bagrow's Ortelii Catalogus Cartographorum. Chicago: Newberry Library.
Keuning, Johannes. 1951. ‘The Novus Atlas of Johannes Janssonius’, Imago Mundi 8: 71–98.
Kline, Naomi Reed. 2001. Maps of Medieval Thought: The Hereford Paradigm. Woodbridge: Boydell.
Koeman, Cornelis and P. C. J. van der Krogt. 2003. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici. Goy-Houten: HES & de Graaf.
Krogt, Peter C. J. van der. 1993. Globi Neerlandici: The Production of Globes in the Low Countries. Utrecht: H & S.
Krogt, Peter C. J van der. 2001. The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World's Greatest Globe Maker. Boston: Brill.
Manners, Ian and Emiralioğlu M. Pinar. 2010. European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500– 1750: Maps from the Collection of O. J. Sopranos. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Mickwitz, Ann-Mari, Leena Miekkavaara, et al. 1979–1989. The A. E. Nordenskiöld Collection in the Helsinki University Library: Annotated Catalogue of Maps Made Up to 1800. 4 vols. Helsinki: Helsinki University Library.
Mollat, Michel and Monique de La Roncière. 1984. Sea Charts of the Early Explorers: 13th to 17th Century. New York: Thames and Hudson.
National Library of Australia. 2013. Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia. Canberra: National Library of Australia.
Nebenzahl, Kenneth. 1986. Maps of the Holy Land: Images of Terra Sancta through Two Millennia. New York: Abbeville.
Needham, Joseph. 1974. ‘Astronomy in Ancient and Medieval China’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1257: 67–82.
Nordenskiöld, A. E. 1897. Periplus: An Essay on the Early History of Charts and Sailing-Directions. Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt.
Pankenier, David. 2013. Astrology and Cosmology in Early China: Conforming Earth to Heaven. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pegg, Richard. 2014. Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.
Pflederer, Richard. 2009. Census of Portolan Charts and Atlases: As Reported and Listed by the Noted Scholars of the Genre in their Works Ranging from 1897 to 2008. Williamsburg: Richard Pflederer.
Pflederer, Richard. 2012. Finding Their Way at Sea: The Story of Portolan Charts, the Cartographers Who Drew Them, and the Mariners Who Sailed by Them. Houten: Hes & De Graaf.
Philips, Philip Lee and Clara Egli Le Gear.1909–1992. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, with Bibliographical Notes. 9 vols. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress.
Ping, Yan. 1998. China in Ancient and Modern Maps. London: Sotheby’s.
Rüstem, Ünver. 2022. ‘Mapping Cosmopolitanism: An Eighteenth-Century Printed Ottoman Atlas and the Turn to Baroque’, Ars Orientalis 51: Digital Publication.
Sabin, Joseph Wilberforce. 1868. Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York: Joseph Sabin.
Schilder, Günter and Olaf Richter. 1976. Australia Unveiled: The Share of the Dutch Navigators in the Discovery of Australia. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
Shirley, Rodney. 2001. The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps, 1472–1700. Riverside: Early World Press.
Shirley, Rodney. 2004. Maps in the Atlases of the British Library: A Descriptive Catalogue, c. AD 850– 1800. London: British Library.
Skelton, R. A. 1960. Explorers' Maps: Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery. London: Routledge and K. Paul.
Suárez, Thomas. 1999. Early Mapping of Southeast Asia. Singapore: Periplus.
Tooley, Roland V. 1979. The Mapping of Australia. London: Holland Press.
Tyacke, Sarah. 1978. London Map-Sellers, 1660–1720: A Collection of Advertisements for Maps Placed in the London Gazette, 1668–1719 with Biographical Notes on the Map-Sellers. Tring: Map Collector Publications.
Urton, Gary. 1981. At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Wagner, Henry. 1999. Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800. Mansfield Centre: Martino.
Warner, Deborah. 1979. The Sky Explored: Celestial Cartography, 1500–1800. New York: A.R.
Wilson, Adrian. 1977. The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Amsterdam: Nico Israel.
Woodward, David. 1975. Five Centuries of Map Printing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wroth, Lawrence. 1944. ‘The Early Cartography of the Pacific’, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 38, no. 2: 87–268.
Whitfield, Peter. 1994. The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks in association with the British Library.