Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Publisher's Note; Preface; List of illustrations; Foreword The early map; 1 Maps of primitive peoples; 2 Cartography in the ancient world; 3 The Christian Middle Ages; 4 Islamic cartography; 5 Mediaeval sea-charts; 6 World maps of the later Middle Ages; 7 Ptolemy and the Renaissance; 8 The first printed maps; 9 The end of the Middle Ages; 10 The cartography of the Great Discoveries; 11 Nautical cartography in the 16th century; 12 Map workshops and the world map of the 16 th century; 13 The mapping of European countries
14 The century of atlases15 The mapping of America; 16 The cartography of Asian peoples; Postscript Craftsmanship and design in early cartography; Notes; Plates; List of Cartographers (to 1750); Bibliograpliy; Index