The Map Catalog: Every Kind of Map and Chart on Earth and Even Some Above It

by Joel Makower

New

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

252 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

This catalog was published in 1992, which is precisely why I got it last year for two bucks. I purchased it as reference material for my experimental mapping projects. Published well before digital on-line archives were accessible (and costly), this book is a record of the records, 364 pages of map typology descriptions and contact information for makers and organizations. Its the sort of item that belongs in the Prelinger Library, a resource that is discarded yet still very valid. And, it is much more concrete than the slipping links and missing images of the future.