Map Librarianship & Collecting

This book's subtitle is An introduction to the history of cartography. It takes you through collecting, cartographers and different types of maps. It also goes through individual countries to look at their mapping.

Many books about map collecting are simply catalogs of maps: useful for the initiate, but unhelpful and even daunting for the inexperienced collector. This book focuses on the basics of collecting and the needs of the collector by a well-known rare book and map expert. Manasek goes beyond the history of maps and atlases to address the everyday issues collectors face. ...

A little book to whet your appetite.

Information on principal map-makers and publishers is given from the earliest times to the 19th century combining an appreciation of the popular decorative side of early maps with historical and bibliographical notes. The book, which is a guide for students and collectors, is organized in national schools covering the whole world. Related specialist texts are cited for further study.

This book begins with a chapter on the History of Cartography and ends with globes and armillary spheres of all types.

This is a subject index of facts about maps. It describes terminology and lists short bibliographies on famous people.