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1886:RA Proctor: The Moon - Her Motions, Aspects, Scenery, and Physical Condition (Third Edition), Longmans, Green, and Co., London.

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Proctor's simple finder map identifies 400 craters.

The most delightful illustration in Proctor's book is this showing the full Earth from somewhere above the lunar surface. The depiction of the craters with flat floors elevated above the surroundings is romantic but wrong!

Proctor's effective drawing of the sequence of lunar phases.