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• Chronogram dates of cartographic interest [1983-2008 - with other authors; partly written for the web]
• A dark deed mapped by the originator of the Penny Black [1990]
• A False Start on Christopher Saxton's Wall-map of 1583? [1979]
• Laying bare the secrets of the British Library's map collections [1993]
• Letter Punches: a Little-Known Feature of Early Engraved Maps [1987]
• Martin Llewellyn's Atlas of the East (c.1598) [1975-2006; partly written for the web]
• Understanding Engraved Maps [1989]

Articles in Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography:
[Private subscribers to Imago Mundi, and those with institutional access, can get access to these article via JSTOR.]

• 1976. 'A descriptive census of Willem Blaeu's sixty-eight centimetre globes', vol. 28, pp. 21-50
  
• 1978. 'The woodcut map considered as a physical object: a new look at Erhard Etzlaub's Rom Weg map of c.1500', vol. 30, pp. 79-91 [and 'Postscript', vol. 33, p. 71]
  
• 1986. 'Census of pre-sixteenth-century portolan charts', vol. 38, pp. 67-94
  
• 1996. ‘Egerton MS 1513: a remarkable display of cartographical invention’, vol. 48, pp. 93-102

• How should we respond to early map thefts? [2002; written for the web]
• Issues arising out of the Forbes Smiley affair [2005; written for the web]

• 1993. Retroconversion of The British Library's map catalogues: the art of the possible, Liber Quarterly 3, pp.1-6.
• 1994. ‘Conversion of the British Library’s Map Catalogue: the keys to success’ [pdf file], INSPEL: Official Organ of the IFLA Division of Special Libraries 28, 1, pp.67-72 [also French version pp.73-79].
• 1994. ‘Possibilities for the international sharing of retroconverted map files’ [pdf file], INSPEL: Official Organ of the IFLA Division of Special Libraries 28, pp.182-90 [also French version pp.191-9]; also in IFLA Journal 20:1 (1994) 46-52
• 2000. ‘Where are map libraries heading? Some route maps for the digital future’, Liber Quarterly 10, pp. 489-98.

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