Sarah Bendall, Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Cartographers of Great Britain and Ireland 1530-1850, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1997). [A much extended revision of the First Edition by P. Eden, 1979].

Wilhelm Bonacker, Kartenmacher aller Länder und Zeiten (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1966). [Comprising bio-bibliographical references on the most important people in the subject.]

Robert W. Karrow, Jr, Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps: Biobibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570 (Winnetka, Illinois: for The Newberry Library by Speculum Orbis Press, 1993). [An extraordinarily comprehensive approach, simultaneously biographical, carto-bibliographical, bibliographical and historiographical. Esssential for almost any aspect of research on the sixteenth century.]

Monique Pelletier (ed), `How to identify a mapmaker:an international bibliographic guide/ Comment identifier un cartographe: guide bibliographique internationale' (Tring: Map Collector Publications; Paris: Comité français de cartographie, 1996 [for the International Cartographic Association]. [Including national bibliographies of biographical dictionaries and other relevant works.]

Valerie Scott (ed.), Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers. 4 volumes (Tring: Map Collector Publications, and latterly Jonathan Potter Ltd [Europe] and Map Sage [USA], 1999-2004). [An extensive revision of the work by R.V. Tooley, originally published in 1979, with a supplement in 1985, providing summary information on a large number of people].

Sarah Tyacke, London Map-Sellers 1660-1720 (Tring: Map Collector Publications, 1978).

Vladimiro Valerio, Società, uomini e istituzioni cartografiche nel mezzogiorno d'Italia (Florence: Istituto Geografico Militare, 1993). [Includes biographies of about 200 people involved with the cartography of S. Italy.]