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MAPS
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manuals
of
cartography
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 A.H.Robinson, R.D.Sale, Elements of Cartography, Wiley, New York, London, 1969, 3rd edition,
[1953]
G.H.Drury, Map
Interpretation, Pitman, London,
1966 [1960]
Michael and Susan Southworth, Maps. A Visual Survey and a Design
Guide, New York Graphical
Society, Little Brown and co., Boston, 1982.
J.K.S.
St.Joseph, The Uses of Air Photography, John Baker, London,
2nd ed.1977 [1966] see 2. Air
Photography and Cartography.
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books
about art
mentioning
maps
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Svetlana Alpers, The
Art of Describing, Dutch Art in the Seventeenth
Century, Penguin, London 1989,
see Chapter 4 "The Mapping Impulse".
E.H.Gombrich, The
Image and the Eye, Further Studies in the Psychology of
Pictorial Representation,
Phaidon, Oxford, 1982, "Mirror and Map :Theories of Pictorial
Representation"
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teaching
maps
to
children
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H.J.Deverson (text) , Ronald Lampit (illust),
The Map that came to
Life, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge 1954 [1948], and much recommended - learning built
into a story of two children on holiday.
Deborah Manley and Pamela Cotterill,
Maps and map games, Piccolo Books, 1976.
Frank
Debenham, The World is
Round, Macdonald, Rathbone,
London 1958
T.C.Bridges and H. Alnwick, Look Up Your Atlas,
Harrap and Sons, London 1943. A rare
and unpretentious book explaining in big, clear colour
diagrams certain geographical facts and figures.
Peter
Hood, ABOUT MAPS, Puffin Picture Book, Penguin, Harmondsworth,
1950. What Maps and Plans are for ; A
Village with its Plan; Part of a Town and the Plan of its
Streets; Finding Your Direction; The Scale of Maps; The
Ordnance Maps; The National Grid; More Ordnance Maps;
sections from Four Ordnance Maps of different scales; What
Contours are; Some Symbols and What they mean; Taken from
the One-inch to the Mile Map; the Weather Map; an Old Map
1588; Greenwich Observatory; Maps Don't tell all the
truth.other sorts of maps )admiralty chart; air map;
Ordnance survey/ Underground Railway; star chart;
agricultural map.
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how
maps
work
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A.H.Dickson, Manual
of Map and Compass Reading,
Bernards, London 1943, and a
cheap,popular pulp book with "To Berlin" on the cover,
extolling the virtues of map reading skills.
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maps
and
the
illustrator
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Nigel
Holmes, PICTORIAL
MAPS, The Herbert Press, London,
1991.
Stephen Constantine, BUY and BUILD, The Advertising Art of the
Empire Marketiing Board, Public Record Office, London
1986. Introduction.
origins and Aims of the Empire Marketing Board.Commissioning
and Designing. Printing and Displaying. The Masseage, The
Imapact. The Plates. See the posters of MacDolald Gill -
Australia and Highways of Empire.
 VISUAL TELLING OF
STORIES -maps on endpapers
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mapmaking
for various
functions
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS
Mark
Monmonier, Cartographies of
Danger, Mapping Hazards in America, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997.
Mark
Monmonier, How To Lie with
Maps, The University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, 1991.
DIPLOMACY
Dorothy V.Jones, Splendid Encounters. The Thought and Conduct of
Diplomacy, The University of
Chicago Library., 1984. A marvelously
illustrated list of events and invented systems of protocol,
where maps feature tellingly.
ECONOMICS
THE
STATE OF.... BOOKS. Concepts
expressed in the shape of maps - objective and recognisable
- subjective and searchable.
Dan Smith, The State of War and Peace Atlas, Penguin London 1996. The
Red Horse in the 1990's (War). Conflicts of interest.
Regimes and Rights. Blood and Soil. Unlicensed Terror. The
Death Toll. Fear and Flight. Lethal Urgency. The
Disintegration. Ethnic Cleansing. Edge of Empire. From War o
war./ Nationless Nation. Holy Lands. Militant Faith. After
the Raj.
Michael Kidron and Ronald
Segal, The State of the World
Atlas, Pan, London, 1981.
The Aggressive State. Arms and the
State. Natural Resources. Economy. Government. Holds on the
Mind. Business. Labour. Society. Environment. Symptoms of
crisis. Signs of Dissent.
Stephen Fothergill and Jill
Vincent,The State of the Nation
Atlas, An Atlas of Britain in the
80's, Pan/Pluto, London, 1985. People. Ownership and Control. Economy. Workers.
Politics. Welfare. Tensions. Environment.
OCEANOGRAPHY
Douglas M.Johnson, The
Theory and History of Ocean Boundary-Making, McGill/Queens, Kingston, Montreal, 1988.
Not exactly overburdened with
images but an important subsection often overlooked.
WEATHER
William James Burroughs, Watching the World's Weather, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991.
See Chapter 5, data handling.
POLITICS
Gerard Chaliand and Jean-Pierre Rageau,
The Penguin Atlas of the
Diasporas, Penguin, London, 1997
[ 1995] (Jewish, Armenian, Gypsy,
Black, Chinese, Indian, Irish, Greek, Lebanese, Palestinian,
Vietnamese and Korean).
NAVIGATION
Peter Whitfield, New
Found Lands. Maps in the History of Exploration,
The British Library, London 1998.
Exploration in the Ancient World.
The Lure of the East 1250 - 1550. The New World 1490 - 1630.
The Pacific and Australia 1520 -1800. The Continents
Explored 1500 - 1900. Postscript - Exploration in the Modern
World.
Charles Nicholl, the
Creature in the Map, Sir Walter Ralegh's Quest for El
Dorado, Vintage, New York, 1995.
The author re-traces Ralegh's expedition of 1595 to
South America to find El Dorado. The author bases much of
his surmise on the 'large charte' drawn up to Ralegh's
instructions in late 1595, and now in the British Museum,
London.
Antonio Pigafetti, Magellan's Voyage. A Narrative Account of the
First Circumnavigation, Dover,
New York, 1994 [1969] a translation of the original
manuscript in the collection of Yale University by one of
the few survivors of Magellan's voyage.
John
Larner, Marco Polo and the
Discovery of the World, Yale
University Press, New Haven, 1999. The author traces
the impact made upon the cartographers of the period by
Polo's book. In Appendix III he outlines the extant world
maps of the Fifteenth Century.
G.V.Scammell, The
World Encompassed. The first European maritime empires c.800
- 1650. Methuen, London and New
York, 1981.
Dava
Sobel, Longitude, The True Story
of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem
of His Time, Fourth Estate,
London 1996, and the story of the
eighteenth century instrument maker John Harrison, a very
successful book - "a popular account and not a scientific
study..." which begat a television film with Michael Gambon
in costume.
Mary
W.Helms, Ulysses' Sail, An
Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge and Geographical
Distance, Princeton University
Press, Princeton, NJ, 1989. See
Chapter 6 with an extended discussion of the early mappae
mundi and their ways of inferring the shapes and information
of distant lands, pp112 - 120.
J.E.D.Williams, From
Sails to Satellites. The origin and development of
navigational science, Oxford
University Press, Oxford 1992.
THE HOLY LAND AND
CHRISTIANITY
Kenneth Nebenzahl,
Maps of the Holy Land, Images of Terra Sancta through Two
Millennia, Abbeville, New York,
1986. The Late Classical World and
Early Middle Ages. The High Middle Ages and the Crusades.
The Renaissance and the rise of Portolan Charts. The
Sixteenth Century and Development of the Map Trade. Holy
Land Cartography after Christian von Adrichom. French
Influence and the Origins of Modern Surveying. List of
Plates. Bibliog.
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maps
a
history
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Rodney
W. Shirley, The Mapping of the
World, Early Printed Maps 1472 - 1700, New Holland, London, 1993
[1984]
Simon Berthon and Andrew Robinson, The Shape of the World,
George Philip for Granada TV, London 1991. Heaven and
Erath. Imperial Visions. The Gods Return. Secrets of the
East. Old Worlds,New Worlds. Triangles and Theodolites. The
Freedom of the Oceans. Measuring India. Opening Up America,
Pictures of the Planet. Chronology.
Lloyd A.Brown, The Story
of Maps, Dover, New York, 1977
[1949]
Alan
Hodgkiss, , Understanding Maps. A
systematic history of their use and development,
Dawson, Folkestone, 1981.
R.V.Tooley, Maps and
Map-Makers, Dorset Press, New
York, 1990 [1949] the standard general reference book on
cartography. Pre-Christian Geography
to Ptolemy. The Arabs and Medieval Europe. Italy. Germany,
Austria and Switzerland. Holland and Belgium. French
Cartography. English Mapmakers (English Marine Atlases). The
County Maps of England and Wales. (Large-scale country maps
of England. English County Atlases). Scotland and Ireland.
Africa. Asia. America. Australia. Scandinavia.
John
Logan Allen, North American
Exploration, The University of
Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 3 vols., 1997.
Each volume has a set of specialist
essays by miscellaneous authors.
Herman
Viola and Carolyn Margolis (eds) Magnificent Voyages, The US Exploring Expeditions
1823 - 1842, Smithsonian,
Washington, 1985. see chapter 8, Surveying and Charting the
Pacific Basin.
P.D.A.Harvey,
Topographical Maps, Symbols, Pictures and
Surveys, Thames and Hudson,
London, 1980
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Atlas of Columbus and The Great
Discoveries, Rand McNally,
Chicago, 1990. The Cartographic
Tradition Inherited by Columbus; Columbus and his
Contemporaries Change the Map; Filling in the Features of
the Earth; Europe's Colonial Era Begins.
P.D.A.Harvey, Maps in
Tudor England, The Public Record
Office and the British Library 1993. A Cartographic revolution. Maps and
Fortifications. Maps and Government. Maps and Towns. Maps
and Landed estates. Maps and Buildings. Maps and the Law.
Further Reading.
Tim
Owen and Elaine Pilbeam, ORDNANCE
SURVEY Map Makers to Britain since 1791, Ordnance Survey, Southampton, HMSO, London
1992.Chronology. Introduction. Origin
and Early Maps. Mudge and Colby. The Irish Survey. Back in
Britain. The Battle of the Scales. The Importance of Being
[Major Henry] James. Full Steam Ahead. Gathering Clouds. The
Lean Years. At War Again. Davidson Days. Working to Plan.
Changing Direction. Market Led. Chronology, Select
Bibliography.
A.E.Nordenskiold, Facsimile Atlas to the early history of
cartography with reproductions of the most important maps of
the XV and XVI centuries,
Stockholm 1889 and available in a reprint by Dover 1973 with
introduction by J.B.Post. The
geographical atlas of Ptolemy. Editions of Ptolemy's
geography. Pseudo-editions of Ptolemy. Ptolemy's errors and
merits. Ancient, not Ptolemaic maps. Extensions of Ptolemy's
Oikumene towards the north and north-west. The first maps of
the New World, and f the newly discovered parts of Africa
and Asia. Terrestrial globes from the 15th and the first
part of the VI centuries. Map Projections. The end of the
early period of cartography 1520 - 1550. The transition to
and the beginning of the modern period. Jacopo
Gastaldi.Philip Apianus. Abraham Ortelius. Gerard
Mercator.
R.Tooley (choice), Charles Brickner (author),
preface G.Crone, Landmarks of
Mapmaking, An Illustrated Survey of Maps and
Mapmaking, Phaidon, Oxford, 1976.
Chapter by Continent.
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maps
theoretical
issues
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Peter
Gould and Rodney White, Mental
Maps, Penguin, Harmondsworth,
1974. The Images of Places. How we measure geographic
Preferences. Images of Britain. Environmental Preferences
and Regional Images in America. Patterns of Ignorance,
Information and Learning. Mental Maps and Administration.
Mental Maps in Today's World.
Dora
Beale Polk, The Island of
California, A History of the Myth, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London
1995 [1991] The implications of the early mediaeval
myth that California was not a promontory but an island.
Henry
Stommel, Lost Islands. The story
of islands that have vanished from Nautical
Charts, University of British
Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1984.
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maps
in
paintings
maps in
art
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Jasper
Johns, Map, oil on canvas, 198 x 312 cms., MOMA NY 1961, see
Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns, A
Retrospective, exhibition
catalogue, MOMA/Abrams, 1997. see also Map, exhibit 96 (1962)
and Map, exhibit 97(1963).
Peter
Weibel (curator) OCEAN
EARTH, exhibition Graz, Austria,
1993. Interesting sequence of
projects involving, agriculture, climate and contemporary
environmental issues, involving some innovatory concepts of
map-making.
see
the paintings of Manny Farber, particularly the
Birthplace, Douglas
Ariz., image, exhibition
catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles. the multi-referenced narrative seen in a
carefully selected and juxtaposed objects seen from
above.
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military
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Roy
Stanley, World War II Photo
Intelligence, Sidgwick and
Jackson, London, 1982. Where Does it Fit ? Background
on Imagery Intelligence. From Curiosity to Necessity: A
Modest History.Organised for War: Units, Locations and
Activities. Camera Haulers:The Aircraft. Freezing Images :
The Cameras. Bring 'Em Back Alive:The Mission. Mission
Complete, the Work has just begun: Photo-Processing. Making
Images into Intelligence:Photo Interpretation. Good but not
Perfect:Errors, Successes and Oddities. APPENDICES US Army
Air Forces Flying Units and Aircraft Collecting Imagery
during WWII. Organisation of US Army Air Forces Combat Photo
Collection Units. Commonwealth Flying Units and Aircraft
Collecting Imagery. Glossary. Bibliog.
Military Manuals; my copy of the War Office's
Manual of Map Reading, Photo
Reading and Field Sketching, was
published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1939.
I give a detailed contents page for the significance
not only of the date but also the
subject.
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maps
of
cities
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Chiara
Frugoni, A Distant City Images of
Urban Experience in the Medieval World, Princeton University press, Princeton, 1991
[1982] translated by William McCuaig. particularly
strong on the representation of the urban entity from
medieval manuscripts.
James
Elliott, The City in Maps, urban
mapping to 1900, The British
Library, London 1987. Introduction:the earliest town plans. The medieval
city. Braun and Hogenberg and after: the town plans of the
seventeenth century. Early plans of the British Isles. The
baroque city: the town plans of the eighteenth century.
Industry and Empire:the town plans of the nineteenth
century. Medical and Social mapping. 'Fire and the Sword'.
Further reading.
Norman
J.Johnson, Cities in the Round,
University of Washington Press,
Seattle and London 1983. Circles -
the Persistent Symbol Circular Cities of the Ancient Near
East; The Classical World's Circular City Theories; The
Circular City of the Medieval World ; Renaissance Circular
Cities - 15th and 16th centuries; Baroque Circular Cities
-17th and 18th centuries ;Circular Cities of the Nineteenth
and Twentieth centuries. A Postscript for Circular Cities.
John
Goss, Braun and Hogenburg's The
City Maps of Europe, A Selection of 16th century Town Plans
and Views, facsimile of 60 plates
, Studio Editions, London, 1991.
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literature
with
maps
as a
theme
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Thomas
Pynchon, Mason &
Dixon, Vintage, New York
1998
James
Cowan, A Mapmaker's Dream, The
Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of
Venice, Warner Books, New York
1996.
John
Livingston Lowes, The Road to
Xanadu, A Study in the Ways of the
Imagination, Constable, London,
2nd edition 1930. The celebrated
account of Coleridge's sources and stimuli, some of a
distinctly secondary nature, in the development of themes
converging on Ancient
Mariner and Kubla Khan. See p.119
ff.
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literary maps
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Barbara Strachey, Journeys of Frodo. An Atlas of J.R.R.Tolkein's The
Lord of the Rings, Unwin, London
1981.
Karen
Wynn Fonstad, The Atlas of
Tolkein's Middle Earth, Harper
Collins, London, 1994. Many and
detailed maps of journeys and battles, comprehensive.
J.B.Post, An Atlas of
Fantasy, Souvenir Press, New
York, 1979 [1973]
Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi,
the dictionary of IMAGINARY
PLACES, Macmillan, New York,
1980. Comprehensive and learned, with
maps and charts by James Cook, illustrated by Graham
Greenfield.
VISUAL TELLING OF
STORIES -literary maps
VISUAL TELLING OF
STORIES -Treasure Island
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collecting
maps
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Samuel
Pepys, Diary, several references to his collection of maps and
charts.See Penguin, The Shorter
Pepys, 1993
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globes
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Catherine Hofmann, Danielle Lecoq, Eve
Netchine, Monique Peletier, Le
Globe & Son Image, Paris,
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, 1995. The earth's Globe as registered in prints and
drawings, medals and book illumination.
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celestial
dimensions
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Christopher Walker (ed) Astronomy before the telescope, British Museum
Press, London
1996.
George
Sergeant Snyder, Maps of the
Heavens, Andre Deutsch, 1984.
Heaven and Earth; The Sun, the Stars,
and the Moon; The Constellations; The Celestial Spheres;
Designing the Heavens; New Horizons; Plates, ack., Further
Reading.
Carole
Stott, Celestial
Charts, Studio, London, 1995.
A large colour book of reproductions
from a wide range of dates and cultures.
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specific
maps &
mapmakers
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R.A.Skelton, Thomas Marston, and George
Painter, The Vinland Map and the
Tartar Relation, Yale University
Press, New Haven and London, 1995 [1965]
Nigel
Nicholson (intro) The Counties of
Britain, A Tudor Atlas by John Speed, Pavilion and the British Library, 1995
[1988]
Richard T.Godfrey, Wenceslaus Hollar. A Bohemian Artist in
England, Yale Centre for British
Art, New Haven.
Sarah
Tyacke and John Huddy, Christopher
Saxton and Tudor Mapmaking, The
British Library, London, 1980.
Katherine S.Van Eerde, John Ogilby and the Taste of His
Times, Dawson, Folkestone,
1976. See Chapter 6 - the great
atlases.
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