Brian Sherwood Jones forwarded this link www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html … the first volume of the 'History of Cartography' was published in 1987 – and another three books were published over the next eleven years. On the web site (above) the University of Chicago Press presents the first 3 volumes in the series in pdf format – to download. Each chapter of each book is a separate pdf document.
Maps and map making are a perennial interest of both boys and girls. I like nothing more than pouring over an old map.
volume 1 … cartography in prehistoric, ancient and medieval Europe
volume 2 part 1 – Islamic and South Asia
part 2 – east and SE Asia
part 3 – African, American, Arctic, Australian and Pacific societies
volume 3 … cartography in the European Renaissance (2 parts)