📚 Maps

The graphic history of space: portolan charts to satellites, and the old argument that every map distorts on purpose.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject maps in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A Study of History	Arnold J. Toynbee	1900	120
	Land Capability For Wildlife-Waterfowl	Canada Land Inventory.	1968	116
	Housing	United States. Bureau of the Census	1942	107
	Geographia	Ptolemy	1478	65
	Tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain	Daniel Defoe	1724	50
	Maps and map-makers	R. V. Tooley	1949	23
	Titi Livi Ab urbe condita libri	Titus Livius	1856	20
	Euro-Reiseatlas 1:300.000	Reise- und Verkehrsverlag.	1990	20
	TIGER/line 1992	United States. Bureau of the Census. Data User Services Division	1993	18
	A Strategic Atlas	Gérard Chaliand	1985	17
	Sémiologie graphique	Jacques Bertin	1900	16
	World Bank atlas	World Bank	1970	14
	Mapstart	Simon Catling	1985	14
	Me on the map	Joan Sweeney	1996	14
	The Macmillan Bible Atlas	Yohanan Aharoni	1968	13
	Atlas of the North American Indian	Carl Waldman	1984	12
	Cambridge, Mass	Sanborn Map Company	1979	11
	Historical atlas of Central Europe	Paul R. Magocsi	1993	11
	Success with Maps	Scholastic Professional Books	1985	10
	World Travel Atlas	Mike Taylor	1994	10
	The modern history of Japan	W. G. (William G.) Beasley	1963	9
	Things maps don't tell us	Armin Lobeck	1956	8
	Old maps & map makers of Scotland	John Elliot Shearer	1905	7
	The fourth part of the world	Toby Lester	2009	7
	United States history atlas	Hammond Incorporated.	1979	6
	The whole world in your hands	Melvin Berger	1993	6
	Maps	Andrew Haslam	1996	6
	Simple geological structures	John Isaac Platt	1940	5
	Map interpretation	G.H Dury	1952	5
	New sounds for woodwind	Bruno Bartolozzi	1967	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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