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THE PASSION FOR collecting is an irresistible human trait and surprise is no longer aroused when one sees on television the range of objects people amass, ranging from fine tapestries and old playing cards to milk bottles and biscuit tins. This particular assortment of times may not at first glance appear relevant to an article on cartography, but they have all at one time or another been used to depict maps. More usually though maps are printed on single sheets of paper, and it is in this format, or bound together as an atlas, that most of us are accustomed to handling them.