📚 Cartography

Map-making as craft and science: projections, symbols, production — and the judgment calls hidden in every sheet.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject cartography in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Maps and map-makers	R. V. Tooley	1949	23
	Sémiologie graphique	Jacques Bertin	1900	16
	Kartographie	Viktor Heissler	1900	13
	Maps and their makers	G. R. Crone	1953	12
	Landmarks of mapmaking	Charles Bricker	1968	12
	Bibliographia Cartographica	Lothar Zogner	1983	9
	Four Colours Suffice	Robin J. Wilson	2002	9
	Map making	Frank Debenham	1936	8
	Elements of cartography	Arthur Howard Robinson	1953	8
	Geschichte der Kartographie	Leo Bagrow	1964	8
	Maps of the ancient sea kings	Charles H. Hapgood	1966	8
	Mercator	Nicholas Crane	2002	8
	中華大典	"Zhonghua da dian" gong zuo wei yuan hui	2014	8
	Old maps & map makers of Scotland	John Elliot Shearer	1905	7
	Manual of photogrammetry	American Society of Photogrammetry.	1945	7
	Cartographic design and production	J. S. Keates	1973	7
	The mapmakers	John Noble Wilford	1981	7
	Phantom islands of the Atlantic	Johnson, Donald S.	1994	7
	The fourth part of the world	Toby Lester	2009	7
	Cartography	Menno-Jan Kraak	2013	7
	The story of maps	Lloyd Arnold Brown	1949	6
	Maps and diagrams	Francis John Monkhouse	1952	6
	Maps and diagrams	Monkhouse, Francis John	1952	6
	Carta marina	Hildegard Binder Johnson	1963	6
	1:100,000 scale	Stephan C. Guptill	1986	6
	Cartography	Borden D. Dent	1990	6
	Thematic cartography and geovisualization	Terry A. Slocum	2008	6
	Classics in cartography	Martin Dodge	2010	6
	The Discovery Of Middle Earth Mapping The Lost World Of The Celts	Graham Robb	2013	6
	How to Make Maps	Peter Anthamatten	2020	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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