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Ronald Vere Tooley (1898 London - 12 October 1986) was a famous London map dealer, an authority on early maps and cartographers, a noted compiler of catalogues on maps, cartography and antiquarian books, author of Maps and Map-makers, and founder of the Map Collectors' Circle which published a series of monographs on historical cartography in the period 1963-1975. He is considered the founder of the antiquarian map trade.''An Appreciation by Robert Stockwell''Obituary