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consequently priorities. Great detail is offered on the networks of publishers and booksellers who supported the respective schemes, which will be of interest to historians of the book and urban networks as well as to historians of cartography. The remaining chapters address maps made for altogether different purposes. While maps of cities and regions could draw upon the funds released by flattering local pride, maps of the oceans and the New World had altogether more strategic aims. The third chapter addresses the making of nautical charts in the two nations, and the sometimes-belaboured attempts to create local products with greater appeal than those produced in the Netherlands. The final two chapters move beyond Europe to consider English and French mapping of the New World, and the East Indies, respectively. The discussion of conflicts spurred by Guillaume Delisle’s map of Louisiana (1718) and the cartographic expression of the persistent disputes over the Acadian peninsula (Nova Scotia) are particularly intriguing. In this context, the comparison between the two nations becomes an explicit competition, and cartographic information became a tool of statecraft. Similarly, the final chapter explores the production of charts of the East Indies. In this context, the commercial priorities of London played an especially important role, but yet again both English and French cartographers were in the wake of the Dutch. While the metropolitan contexts of Paris and London feature prominently in the earlier chapters, the focus on geopolitical matters in the later chapters does tend to steer the book back toward a more traditional interpretation of the history of cartography. Nonetheless, Mapping and Charting in Early Modern England and France provides a fascinating survey of the development of English and French cartography in the early modern period, and some useful insights into the intellectual and commercial cultures of Paris and London.