Bibliographical Notes on Nineteenth Century
British Admiralty Charts [with Andrew David, 1984 - reissued by Kunstpedia]
'Cartochronology, or helpful hints on how to get a date' [1985 - reissued by Kunstpedia]
Cartographic Fakes, Forgeries and Facsimiles likely to deceive
Chronogram dates of cartographic interest [1983-2008 - with other authors; partly written for the web]
A dark deed mapped by the originator of the Penny Black [1990]
'The Drapers’ Company and its school of
seventeenth century chart-makers' (reprint of the chapter in Helen Wallis
& Sarah Tyacke (eds) My Head is a Map: Essays & Memoirs in honour of R.V. Tooley (London: Francis
Edwards & Carta Press, 1973) pp. 81-106 - note that the Apprentice Tree appears here on the
first page - Kunstpedia) [1973]
Episodes from the early history of British
Admiralty charting [1983 - reissued by Kunstpedia]
A False Start on Christopher Saxton's Wall-map of 1583? [1979]
Laying bare the secrets of the British Library's map collections [1993]
Letter Punches: a Little-Known Feature of Early Engraved Maps [1987]
Martin Llewellyn's Atlas of the East (c.1598) [1975-2006; partly written for the web]
'One map, two purposes: Willem Blaeu's second 'West Indische paskaart' of 1630'
[1985- reissued by Kunstpedia]
The Original Monthly Numbers of Moule's English Counties [1985 - reissued by Kunstpedia]
Thefts of early maps and books
Understanding Engraved Maps [1989]
[Others of the above articles were reissued on the Kunstpedia
site, as well as being reprinted here]
Articles in Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography:
[Private subscribers to Imago Mundi, and those with institutional access, can get access to these article via JSTOR.]
- 1976. 'A descriptive census of Willem Blaeu's sixty-eight centimetre globes', vol. 28, pp. 21-50
- 1978. 'The woodcut map considered as a physical object: a new look at Erhard Etzlaub's Rom Weg map of c.1500', vol. 30,
pp. 79-91
[and 'Postscript', vol. 33, p. 71]
- 1986. 'Census of pre-sixteenth-century portolan charts', vol. 38, pp. 67-94
- 1996. ‘Egerton MS 1513: a remarkable display of cartographical invention’, vol. 48, pp. 93-102
- 2023.[with Fateme Savadi] Qu?b al-Din al-Shirazi's Textual Map of the Mediterranean Sea (1282) and its Evident Source in a Portolan Chart, vol. 75:2, pp. 199-231
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