MapBooks: My library -- recommended books about maps
A Lithuanian website -- with an English version -- with numerous maps of the historic Lithuanian area.
"Antique Maps" Carl Moreland and David Bannister, 1998 edition, Phaidon Press, London, England. 326 pages; a
couple of pages of maps in color, but mostly black and white. ISBN: 0-07148-2954-4

"Lietuva žemėlapiuose (Lithuania on the Map)" Aldona Bieliūienė, Birutė Kulnytė, Rūta Subatniekienė, Lietuvos
Nacionalinio Muziejaus Biblioteka, catalog from an exhibition from 1999. 152 pages; profusely illustrated in color and
black and white. ISBN 9955-415-13-4

"Mapping Europe's Borderlands" Steven Seegel, 2011, Univ. of Chicago Press, 368 pages, with a view I have not seen
before into the behind-the-scenes action influencing creation of maps of Lithuania. ISBN: 0-226-74425-6

"Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past" Jeremy Black, 1997, Yale Univ. Press. 267 pages; a few
images in color, but mostly black and white, and mostly text. ISBN: 0-300-06976-6

"Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet" Nicholas Crane, 2004, Owl Books. 397 pages, just a couple of
illustrations, but a fascinating read. ISBN: 0-8050-6625-X

"Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers" Josephine French, editor, 1999, Revised Edition from Map Collector
Publications. Pricey, but priceless; four volumes profusely illustrated in black and white; ISBN for "A - D," 408 pages: 0-
906430-14-3; for "E - J," 462 pages: 0-906430-19-4; for "K - P," 472 pages: 0-906430-20-8; for  "Q - Z," 436 pages: 0-
906430-21-6



((To be Continued!))