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References Sources Frequently Used in Researching Maps

Bagrow, Leo. "History of Cartography." Revised and enlarged by R.A. Skelton. Chicago: Precedent Publishing, Inc., 1963.

Betz, Richard L. "The Mapping of Africa: A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700." 't Goy Houten: Hes & de Graaf, 2007.

Brown, Lloyd A. "Jean Domenique Cassini and His World Map of 1696." Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1941.

Burden, Philip D. "The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps 1511-1670." Rickmansworth, England: Raleigh Publications, 1996.
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Day, Alan. "Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Pasage." Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006.

Delano-Smith, Catherine and Roger J. P. Kain. "English Maps: A History." London: British Library, 1999.

Ermen, Eduard Van. "The United States in Old Maps and Prints. Wilmington, DE: Atomium Books, Inc., 1990.

Falk, Marvin W. "Alaskan Maps: A Cartobibliography of Alaska to 1900." New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1983.

Goss, John. "The Mapping of North America: Three Centuries of Map-making 1600-1860." London: Wellfleet Press, 1990.

Hayes, Derek. "America Discovered: A Historical Atlas of North American Exploration. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2004.

Howgego, Raymond John. "Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel, and Colonization from the Earliest Times to the Year 1800." Potts Point, Australia: Hordern House, 2003.

Inglis, Robin. "Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America." Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2008.

Klemp, Egon, ed. "America in Maps: Dating from 1500 to 1856." New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1976.

Koeman, Cornelius, ed. "Alantes Neerlandici: Bibliography of Terrestrial, Maritime, and Celestial Books, Atlases and Pilot Books Published in the Netherlands up to 1880. Volume 2." Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., 1970.

Leighly, John. "California as an Island: An Illustrated Essay." San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1972.

Library of Congress Division of Maps and Charts. "A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress." Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1901.

Lowery, Woodbury. "The Lowery Collection: A Descriptive List of Maps of the Spanish Possessions within the Present Limits of the United States, 1502-1820." Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1912.

Manasek, F. J. "Collecting Old Maps." Norwich, VT: Terra Nova Press, 1998.

McLaughlin, Glen and Nancy H. Mayo. "The Mapping of California as an Island: An Illustrated Checklist." Saratoga, CA: California Map Society, 1995.

Moreland, Carl and David Bannister. "Antique Maps: A Collector's Handbook." New York: Longman Group, Ltd., 1983.

Pedley, Mary Spoonberg. "Bel Et Utile: The Work of the Robert De Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers." Hertsfordshire: Map Collector Publications Ltd., 1992.

Phillips, Philip Lee. "List of Geographical Atlases." Vol. 1. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909.

Potter, Jonathan. "Collecting Antique Maps: An Introduction to the History of Cartography." London: Jonathon Potter Ltd, 1988.

Portinaro, Pierluigi and Franco Knirsch. "The Cartography of North America 1500-1800." New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1987.

Schwartz, Seymour I and Ralph E. Ehrenberg. "The Mapping of America." New York: H. N. Abrams, 1980.

Shirley, Rodney W. "The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700." Riverside, CT: Early World Press Ltd., 2001.

Shirley, Rodney W. "Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 – 1750." Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publication Ltd. and the British Library, 1988.

Short, John Rennie. "The World Through Maps: A History of Cartography." Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books Ltd., 2003.

Skelton, R.A. "Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries; a Revised Edition of Old Decorative Maps and Charts, by A. L. Humphreys." London: Staples Press, 1952.

Stevens, Henry and Roland Tree. "Chapter 2: Comparative Cartography." In "The Mapping of America." Ed. by Ronald Vere Tooley. London: Holland Press, 1985. 41-108.

Suárez, Thomas. "Early Mapping of Southeast Asia." Singapore: Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., 1999.

Tooley, Ronald Vere. "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers." Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publications Limited, 1979.

Tooley, Ronald Vere. "California as an Island: A Geographic Misconception Illustrated by 100 Examples from 1625 to 1770." London: Map Collector's Circle, 1964.

Tooley, Ronald Vere. "Chapter 3: California as an Island: A Geographic Misconception Illustrated by 100 Examples from 1625 to 1770." In "The Mapping of America." Ed. by Ronald Vere Tooley. London: Holland Press, 1985. 110-134.

Tooley, Ronald Vere and Charles Bricker. "Landmarks of Mapmaking: An Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmakers." Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1968.

Wagner, Henry R. "The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the year 1800 Volume 2." Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937.

Wheat, Carl I. "Mapping the Transmississippi West." Volume 1. San Francisco: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957.

Pacific Northwest and British Columbia sources

Anderson, Ross. "Pinpoints, Plots, Plats and Panoramas." The Seattle Times. 18 Sept. 2001. Accessed November 11, 2008. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/seattle_history/articles/map_story.html.

Bennet, Robert A. "Walla Walla: A Town Built to Be a City, 1900-1919." Walla Walla: First Impression, 1982.

Buerge, David. "Seattle in the 1880s." Seattle: Historical Society of Seattle and King County, 1986.

Crowley, Walt. "Seattle – Thumbnail History." 26 Sept. 2006. Historylink.org. Accessed 21 Nov. 2008. http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7934 .

Ficken, Robert E. "Washington Territory." Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 2002.

Ficken, Robert E. "Washington State: The Inaugural Decade, 1889-1899." Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 2007.

Gregson, Harry. "A History of Victoria, 1842-1970 with Illustrations and Maps." Victoria, B.C.: Victoria Observer Publishing Co. Ltd., 1970.

Martin, Harry and Caroline Kellog. "Tacoma: A Pictorial History." Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company, 1981.

McClary, Daryl. "Island County – Thumbnail History." 14 Nov. 2005. Historylink.org. Accessed 19 Nov. 2008. http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7523 .

Reps, John William. "View and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925." Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984.

Woodcock, George. "British Columbia: A History of the Province." Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1990.


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