2 websites will tell you all you need to know:

http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/map0001.htm

http://library.buffalo.edu/maps/mapresources/map_cat_tools.php

Cataloguing maps, especially older ones before Greenwich was agreed as 
the international zero meridian, is very different from cataloguing 
books and periodicals, old or new. I got my first stab at it last year 
and, after initial nervousness, was glad of the opportunity.

Good luck and best wishes,

Bill Lehm.

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