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• Overview of the portolan chart pages
• General Conclusions

  The main essays:

• A detailed reassessment of the Carte Pisane: a late and inferior copy, or the lone survivor from the portolan charts' formative period?
• Cartographic innovations by the early portolan chartmakers (and subsequent developments)
• Introductory notes on workshops
• The wider implications of the 'Colour & Shape Analysis'
• Innovative Portolan Chart Names
• Abandoned Portolan Chart Names
• Red Names on the Portolan Charts (1311-1677) a detailed investigation
• The style and content of Grazioso Benincasa's charts: imitation, innovation and repetition

• Bibliographical Notes on Nineteenth Century British Admiralty Charts [with Andrew David, 1984 - reissued by Kunstpedia]
• 'Cartochronology, or helpful hints on how to get a date' [1985 - reissued by Kunstpedia)
• 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]
• 'The Drapers’ Company and its school of seventeenth century chart-makers' (reprint of the chapter in Helen Wallis & Sarah Tyacke (eds) My Head is a Map: Essays & Memoirs in honour of R.V. Tooley (London: Francis Edwards & Carta Press, 1973) pp. 81-106 - note that the Apprentice Tree appears here on the first page - Kunstpedia) [1973]
• Episodes from the early history of British Admiralty charting [1983 - reissued by Kunstpedia]
• 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]
• 'One map, two purposes: Willem Blaeu's second 'West Indische paskaart' of 1630' [1985- reissued by Kunstpedia]
• The Original Monthly Numbers of Moule's English Counties [1985 - reissued by Kunstpedia]
• 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

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