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Allen, David Y., 'The So-Called "Velasco Map": A Case of Forgery?', Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, ser. A, no.5 (February 14, 2006). [Velasco Map, on which see also Seaver below, and Web Articles: The Americas (under 'Velasco')].

Bagrow, Leo, 'The Maps from the Home Archives of the Descendants of a friend of Marco Polo', Imago Mundi, 5 (1948): 3-13. [Rossi Map Collection].

Bagrow, Leo (revised and enlarged by R.A. Skelton), History of Cartography (London: Watts, 1964), pp.285-7 [on facsimile atlases].

Baynes-Cope, Arthur David, 'The Investigation of a Group of Globes', Imago Mundi, 33 (1981): 9-19 [followed by a 'Note on Radiocarbon of the Ambassadors' Globe' by Richard Burleigh, p.20] [Globes and globe gores].

Broecke, Marcel P.R. van den, 'Unmasking a forgery: recognising a real Ortelius', Mercator's World, 3:3 (May/June 1998): 46-9. [ Ortelius America (variant (B))].

Broecke, Marcel P.R. van den, 'Unmasking another forgery of an Ortelius atlas map: Iceland', Journal of the International Map Collectors' Society, 106 (Autumn 2006): 7-9. [ Ortelius Iceland].

Broecke, Marcel P.R. van den, 'Last comments on the alleged Ortelius forgery', Journal of the International Map Collectors' Society, 108 (Spring 2007): 50 [responding to Lázló Gróf's comments above about the Iceland map forgery].

Brown, Kevin, 'Is my Antique Map Authentic? Breaking Down the Rare and Antique Map Authentication Process' - on his Geographicus Antique Map blog, 10 February 2010.

Buehler, Michael, How do I know it’s real? (in the Boston Rare Maps Newsletter No.1 [undated])

['Burden 1']. Burden, Philip D., The Mapping of North America: a List of Printed Maps 1511-1670 (Rickmansworth: Raleigh Publications, 1996). [With Corrigenda and Addenda at the beginning of vol. II (2007), and further information added to a dynamic website.]
['Burden 2']. The Mapping of North America II: a List of Printed Maps 1671-1700 (Rickmansworth: Raleigh Publications, 2007). [With Corrigenda and Addenda being added to a dynamic website.]

Cardinal, Louis, 'Record of an ideal: Father Francesco Giuseppe Bressani's 1657 map of New France', The Portolan 61 (Winter 2004-2005): 13-28. [Bressani].

Dahl, Edward H., 'Facsimile maps and forgeries', Archivaria, 10 (Summer 1980): 261-263.

Dahl, Edward H., 'A second Bressani original of New France comes to light', The Map Collector, 63 (1993): 42-3 [discussing a 20th century restrike of the left of two sheets - but with added details], and 'Addendum' [i.e. correction] in The Map Collector, 64 (1993): 51 [reproducing the two joined sheets of the original printing, in Vienna]. [Bressani].

Du Mont, John S., 'Engraved Maps on Powder Horns', The Map Collector, 33 (1985): 3-7, see pp.6-7.

Duncker, Dieter, 'Antique Maps - Recognising the difference between old and modern colouring' on Kunstpedia (20 September 2008).

Edney, Matthew, ‘An early color facsimile: hand-applied or printed?’ (discussing an 1856 copy of the 1547 Nicolas Vallard atlas - 'Mapping as Process' blog, 18 May 2021).

Gaffney, Dennis, 'Tips of the Trade: Verifying Antique Maps', Antiques Roadshow [illustrated advice from Chris Lane, of the Philadelphia Print Shop].

Gehring, Charles and William Starna, 'A Case of Fraud: The Dela Croix Letter and Map of 1634', New York History, 66:3 (July, 1985): 249-61.

Gent, R.H. van, 'Andreas Cellarius (c. 1595-1665): A Bio-Bibliographical Overview'.

Gróf, Lázló, 'Ortelius forgery?', Journal of the International Map Collectors' Society, 107 (Winter 2006): 32-3 [letter, touching on a number of forgery topics, responding to Marcel van den Broecke's article on the Ortelius map of Iceland].

Hall, Debbie. 'Copy, reconstruction or fake?' (an illustrated note about one, or perhaps two, Derveaux plans of Paris; for the Bodleian Map Room Blog, 11 May 2023)

Koeman, Cor, 'An increase in facsimile reprints', Imago Mundi, 18 (1964): 87-8 [a good summary of what had been produced by that date].

Kok, Hans, 'Distinguishing fake from real' (Bulletin No. 2 of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), originally published in the IMCoS Journal.

Krogt, Peter van der, Globi Neerlandici: the production of globes in the Low Countries (Utrecht: HES, 1993), p.522.

Layland, Michael, 'Geographical clues to suspect maps', The Map Collector, 69 (1994): 52 [a letter about some of the Portolan charts described by Woodward].

Library and Archives Canada, 'Detecting the Truth: Fakes, Forgeries and Trickery' [the map example is concerned with plagiarism, but there are technical explanations about the uncovering of other kinds of deception].

McCorkle, Barbara B., New England in Early Printed Maps, 1513 to 1800: An Illustrated Carto-Bibliography (Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 2001).

McGuirk, Donald L., 'Variant impressions of 1520 Apianus World map', The Map Collector, 66 (1994): 53 [an illustrated letter].

McGuirk, Donald L., '1520 Apianus World Map: Census and Commentary' [unpublished text of a paper presented to the International Conference on the History of Cartography (Vienna, 13 September 1995) and to the Society for the History of Discoveries (Arlington, 3 November 1995) - detailing two forgeries of that map - see his message to MapHist on 1 September 2005].

McGuirk, Donald L., 'The forgotten "First map with the name of America" (the 1520 Apianus world map); history, census and comparison with the Waldseemüller 1507 world map', The Portolan: Journal of the Washington Map Society 77 (Spring 2010): 26-36. [Identifying three 'old reproductions' (pp.32-3).]

McIntosh, Gregory C., 'More about fake maps', The Map Collector, 69 (1994): 52 [a letter about some of the Portolan charts described by Woodward].

McIntosh, Gregory C., Antique Map Reproductions: A Directory of Publishers & Distributors of Antique Map, Atlas & Globe Facsimiles & Reproductions (Plus Ultra Pub Co , 1998).

Manasek, Francis J., 'Facsimiles, Forgeries, and Other Copies', in Collecting Old Maps (Norwich Vt.: Terra Nova Press, 1998): 73-82 [providing good descriptions, e.g. of photogravure (p.74)].

Manasek, Francis J., 'How to spot these fakes: identifying a new breed of counterfeit maps', Mercator's World, 6:2 (March/April 2001): 18-23; and the letters that resulted, Mercator's World, 6:4 (July-August 2001). {NB. These links via the Internet Archive sometimes do not work.} [Describing the map of North America by A.Bell (plate XCI of Encyclopedia Britannicaof 1768-71) and 'North America from the best Authorities' by B.Baker (c.179-[?])].

MapHist list. The list's archive, readily available back to January 2002, has been a major source for these pages. However, the messages are sometimes formatted in html, with each paragraph forming a single, extended line. This makes reading difficult. The best solution, apparently, is to copy the message into a blank email or a word processing page, where it should output sensibly.

The Map Room: a Weblog about Maps, see the Hoaxes & Controversies Archives.

Missinne, Stefan, 'Ivory globes: distinguishing elephant ivory from calcium carbonate, or distinguishing the real from the fake', Journal of the International Map Collectors' Society ,79 (Winter 1999): 25-8. [Comparing three genuine miniature ivory terrestrial globes (one by J. Lilley, c. 1826) and two fakes in the 'Weisinger Collection' (Nos. 31 & 32)].

Moreland, Carl and David Bannister, Antique Maps: a collector's handbook (London & New York: Longman, 1983) p.285-6 ('Reproductions, fakes and forgeries').

The Hoax Museum Blog (a search of the site found a number of references to maps - Marquette, Vinland, etc. - but this was not systematically checked).

Olshin, Benjamin B., 'The Mystery of the ‘Marco Polo’ Maps: An Introduction to a Privately-Held Collection of Cartographic Materials Relating to the Polo Family', Terrae Incognitae, 39 (2007): 1-23 [on the Rossi Collection associated with Marco Polo, finding no evidence that they are fake]. [Rossi Map Collection].

Seaver, Kirsten A., 'Commentary to 'The So-Called Velasco Map: A Case of Forgery?', Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, ser. B, no.5 (February 14, 2006)) [ Velasco Map].

Shirley, Rodney W., 'The map that never was', The Map Collector, 53 (1990): 8-13 [on the Bertram/Stukeley map of Roman Britain] [Bertram/Stukeley]. The article has been reissued online by Kunstpedia.

Shirley, Rodney W., The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps, 1472-1700 (Holland Press, 1983, and subsequent editions, some with Corrections and Additions).

Unno, Kazutaka, Chizu no Shiwa: Creases of Map or Essays on the History of Cartography (Tokyo: Yushodo Press, 1985). [Review by John Sargent in Imago Mundi, 41 (1989): 155, stating that it includes a section on 'fake and imitation maps'].

Weber, Carl J., The Jacques Marquette Map of 1673-74 a Hoax? [See also the entry for Marquette].

Woodward, David, 'Could these Italian maps be fakes?', The Map Collector, 67 (1994): 2-10 [a well-illustrated article on a group of supposedly early 16th century maps showing the world and early discoveries of America]. [Portolan charts].