Books of Interest

Following are some books that might be of interest. There are many others available. Please contact the web site manager if you have any favorites you would like to have listed, or would like to review in an upcoming issue of The New CartoPhilatelist. 

Lloyd A. Brown, The Story of Maps, Dover Edition, 1979.	Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet, New York Henry Holt and Company, 2002.	Wilma George, Animals & Maps, London Secker and Warburg, 1969.

Walter Klinefelter, Maps in Miniature: Notes Critical and Historical on their Use on Postage Stamps. With a CheckList, Windham, Connecticut, Chicago Press, 1936	Walter Klinefelter, A Small Display of Old Maps and Plans, Iowa City, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1962	Walter, Klinefelter, A Further Display of Old Maps and Plans, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Sumac Press, 1969

Walter Klinefelter, A Third Display of Old Maps and Plans: Studies in postal cartography, LaCrosse, Wisconsin , 1973	Walter Klinefelter, A Fourth Display of Old Maps and Plans Studies in Postal Cartography, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1978

John P. Snyder, Flattening the Earth , University of Chicago Press, 1993.	Kent B. Stiles, Geography and Stamps, New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1931.	Norman Thrower, Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society. University of Chicago Press, 2d edition, 1999

Andreas Weise, Landkarten, Entdecker, Konquistadoren, Geographisch-Kartographische Anstat Gotha, 1989.	John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers, Vintage Books, 2000, revised edition.	Robin J. Wilson, Stamping Through Mathematics, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001