History of English Mapping Reading List

Cumming, William P. British maps of Colonial America. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, [Map Div. 76-324]

Delano-Smith, Catherine. English Maps: A History. Toronto, University of Toronto Press. 1999 [Map Div 00-9550]

English map-making 1500-1650. Historical essays edited by Sarah Tyacke. London, The British Library, 1983. [Map Div. 83-653]

English mapping of America, 1675-1715. New York, The Mercator Society of The New York Public Library, 1986. Publication No. 1. [Map Div. 92-7186]

Fite, Emerson D. and Archibald Freeman. A book of old maps delineating American history from the earliest days down to the close of the Revolutionary War. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1926, reprint New York: Dover, 1969. [Map Div. + ref.desk]

Guthorn, Peter J. British maps of the American revolution. Monmouth Beach, N.J., Philip Freneau Press, 1972. [Map Div. 73-560 +]

Harley, John Brian. "Power and legitimation in the English geographical atlases of the eighteenth century." In: Images of the World, the atlas through history. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1997, pp. 161-204. [Map Div 96-12846]

Harvey, P. D. A. Maps in Tudor England. Chicago, University Press, 1993. [Map Div. 94-12520]

Historians' Guide to Early British Maps, A guide to the location of pre-1900 maps of the British Isles preserved in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Edited by Helen Wallis .London, Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1994. [Map Div. 95-1904]

Jolly, David C. Maps in English Periodicals. Part I: Major monthlies before 1800. Part II: Annuals, Scientific Periodicals & Miscellaneous Magazines, mostly before 1800. Brookline, MA: David C. Jolly, 1990-1991. [Map Div. 90-47, pt. I & II]

Lynam, Edward.

British maps and mapmakers

. London, 1947.

[Map Div.]

Phillips, Philip Lee.

A list of maps of America in the Library of Congress preceded by a list of works relating to cartography

. Washington, GPO, 1901, reprint...,

[Map Div.]

Smith, David.

Antique maps of the British Isles

. London, Batsford, 1982.

[Map Div 83-771]

Includes text on the history of the map trade in England and the development of British cartography.

Stevens, Henry & Roland Tree, "Comparative Cartography," in

The Map collectors' Series , Map collectors' Circle

, No. 39; and R. V. Tooley's

Mapping of America

,...

[Map Div.80-712]

Thomson, Don W.

Men and meridians

. Ottawa, Queen's Printer, 1966. Vol. 1: Prior to 1867.

[VDE]

Early English mapping of Canada.

Tyacke, Sarah.

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, Herts: Map collector publiccations, ltd., 1978.

[Map Div. 79-497]

Varanka, Dalia.

Editorial and design principles in the rise of English world atlases 1606-1729

. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, June 1994.

[Map Div 96-16460]

Excellent survey of English atlas production in the reign of Charles II and the early Hanoverian period.

Verner, Coolie.

A carto-bibliographical study of The English Pilot

, the Fourth Book, with special reference to the charts of Virginia. Charlottesville, Va., University of Virginia Press, 1960.

[Map Div. 86-1870]

Winsor, Justin.

Narrative and critical history of America

. Boston, 1884-9.

[*R-HAB]

Especially vol. 3, 4 for New York and New Jersey maps.