On 5/7/15 12:23 PM, Muhr, Heiko Heinrich Friedrich wrote:
>
> Michael Conzen's scholarly work is the key to understanding the 
> importance of county land ownership maps, plat books, and county 
> atlases for the growth of commercial map publishing in the United 
> States during the 19th century. 

Thanks, Heiko.

Going for more ancient roots:

_The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property 
Mapping_ by Roger Kain and Elizabeth Baigent: University of Chicago 
Press, 1992. This is an extensive and scholarly treatise that links 
politics, property and cartography. This was the winner of the 1991 
Kenneth Nebenzahl Prize for the best new manuscript in the history of 
cartography. The historical scope ranges from ancient Rome through the 
nineteenth century, predominantly focused on Europe and its later colonies.

        Joel