{"id":4194,"date":"2026-04-01T21:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/?page_id=4194"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:40:34","slug":"history-of-cartography-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/collections\/topic-areas\/history-of-cartography\/history-of-cartography-books\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Cartography Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

The titles displayed below are a small selection from the history of cartography book titles available through the Map Library. Search history cartography [limited to the Map Library]<\/a> in the Library’s catalog to see a fuller sampling.<\/p>\n

All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey<\/a>. Betsy Mason and Greg Miller. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2018.
\nHeavily illustrated<\/p>\n

Around the World in 200 Globes: Stories of the Twentieth Century<\/a>. Willem Jan Neutelings. Antwerp: Luster, 2024.
\nHeavily illustrated<\/p>\n

Art and Cartography: Six Historical Essays<\/a>. David Woodward, editor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. <\/p>\n

Cartography: the Ideal and Its History<\/a>. Matthew H. Edney. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.<\/p>\n

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations<\/a>. Matthew H. Edney. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2025.<\/p>\n

Decolonizing the Map: Cartography from Colony to Nation<\/a>, James R. Akerman, editor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.<\/p>\n

History of Cartography<\/a>. Leo Bagrow, revised and enlarged by R.A. Skelton. Chicago, Ill. : Precedent Pub., 1985.<\/p>\n

The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps<\/a>. Peter Whitfield. London: British Library, 2010.
\nHeavily illustrated<\/p>\n

Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-century America<\/a>. Susan Schulten. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
\nAlso available online<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Maps, Annotated: the World’s 300 Greatest Maps Explained<\/a>. Smithsonian Institution. New York: DK, 2025.
\nHeavily illustrated<\/p>\n

The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860<\/a>. Martin Bru\u0308ckner Williamsburg, Va.: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
\nAlso available online<\/a><\/p>\n

Theater of the World: the Maps that Made History<\/a>. Thomas Reinertsen Berg. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
\nHeavily illustrated<\/p>\n

Treasures from the Map Room: a Journey Through the Bodleian Collections<\/a>, Debbie Hall, editor. Oxford, Eng.: Bodleian Library, 2016.<\/p>\n

Women in American Cartography: an Invisible Social History<\/a>. Judith A. Tyner. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2020.<\/p>\n

Cartobibliographies (bibliographies of maps)<\/strong><\/em>
\nFinding cartobibliographies in the Library’s catalog can be tricky! Please contact the Map Library for assistance if you are interested in this kind of resource.<\/p>\n

Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900<\/a>. Robert W. Karrow, Jr., general editor. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1981-1983.<\/p>\n

Civil War Newspaper Maps: a Cartobibliography of the Northern Daily Press<\/a>. David Bosse, compiler. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. <\/p>\n

Civil War Maps: an Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in Map Collections of the Library of Congress<\/a>. 2nd edition. Richard W. Stephenson, compiler. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.<\/p>\n

A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress: with Biographical Notes<\/a>. Philip Lee Phillips and Clara Egli Le Gear, compilers. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909-1992. (9 volumes)<\/p>\n

The Mapping of North America: a List of Printed Maps [1511-1670]<\/a>. Philip D. Burden. Rickmansworth, Herts.: Raleigh Publications, 1996.<\/p>\n

The Mapping of North America: a List of Printed Maps 1671-1700<\/a>. Philip D Burden. Rickmansworth, Herts.: Raleigh Publications, 2007.<\/p>\n

The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700<\/a>. Rodney W. Shirley. London: New Holland Publishers, 1993.<\/p>\n

Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861<\/a>. Carl I Wheat. San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-1963. (5 volumes)<\/p>\n

Maps of Africa to 1900: a Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<\/a>. Thomas J. Bassett and Yvette Scheven. Urbana, Ill.: Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, 2000.<\/p>\n

Norwich’s Maps of Africa : an Illustrated and Annotated Carto-bibliography<\/a>. Oscar I. Norwich, 2nd edition revised and edited by Jeffrey C. Stone. Norwich, Vt.: Terra Nova Press, 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The titles displayed below are a small selection from the history of cartography book titles available through the Map Library. Search history cartography [limited to the Map Library] in the Library’s catalog to see a fuller sampling. All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey. Betsy Mason and Greg Miller. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2018. Heavily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"parent":3062,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4283,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4194\/revisions\/4283"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}