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The Ebstorf Mappamundi and Gervase of Tilbury: The Controversy Revisited
Armin Wolf
Pages: 1-27
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Making an Impression: The Display of Maps in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Homes
Genevieve Carlton
Pages: 28-40
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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New Evidence for the Date of Five Rare Dutch-Italian Wall Maps: F. de Wit's World Map and W. J. Blaeu's Four Continents
Mariarosa Cesari
Pages: 41-59
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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A Family Affair: The Dundas Family of Arniston and the Military Survey of Scotland (1747–1755)
Rachel Hewitt
Pages: 60-77
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Italian Mapmakers in the Spanish Civil War (1937–1939)
Carme Montaner & Luis Urteaga
Pages: 78-95
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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A Hitherto Unknown Sketch Map by Lord Burghley
Annaleigh Margey & J. H. Andrews
Pages: 96-100
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Conference Report

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The 24th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Moscow, Russia, 10–15 July 2011
George Carhart
Pages: 101-107
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Obituary

Ingrid Kretschmer (1939–2011)
Johannes Dörflinger
Pages: 108-111
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Tra cartografia politica e immaginario figurativo: Matthew Paris e l'Iter de Londinio in Terram Sanctam. By Salvatore Sansone.
‘A crusading habitus’. In Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150–1400. By Katharine Breen.
Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 2009. ISBN 978-88-89190-55-5. Pp.198, illus. Euros €60.00 (paper). Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-05-21199-22-3. Pp. 122–171; 245–252, illus. STG £55.00; US $95 (hardcover).
Alessandro Scafi
Pages: 112-113
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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‘A crusading habitus’. In Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150–1400. By Katharine Breen. | Full Text | PDF (70.7 KB)
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A Carto-Bibliography of the Maps in Eighteenth-Century British and American Geography Books. By Barbara Backus McCorkle.
The Last Great Cartographic Myth: Mer de l'Ouest. By Don McGuirk.
Kansas City: Digital Publishing Services, University of Kansas Library. Issued on the website of KU ScholarWorks on 2 November 2009, at . ISBN 978-1-936153-02-2. File format Adobe PDF; file size 1.9 MB. (Also available as a print-on-demand book for US $15.95.) Cambridge, MA: Map Record Publications, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9794768-8-4. File format USB flash drive for use with MS/Windows (can run on newer Macintosh systems with Windows emulation software). US $45.00.
Joel Kovarsky
Pages: 113-114
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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The Last Great Cartographic Myth: Mer de l'Ouest. By Don McGuirk. | Full Text | PDF (62.8 KB)
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The 1776–1777 Northern Campaigns of the American War for Independence and Their Sequels: Contemporary Maps of Mainly German Origin. By Thomas M. Barker and Paul R. Huey
Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press; Vergennes, VT: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 2011. ISBN 978-0-916346-85-0. Pp. 208, illus. US $49.00 (cloth).
Brian Leigh Dunnigan
Pages: 114-115
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine, 1793–1860: An Illustrated and Comparative Study. By Edward V. Thompson
foreword by Matthew H. Edney. Bangor, Maine: Nimue Books and Prints, 2010. Pp. xii, 447, illus. US $65.00 (cloth). [Order from Nimue Books & Prints, 117 Norfolk Street, Bangor, ME 04401, USA.]
David A. Cobb
Pages: 115-116
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Mapping America: Exploring the Continent. Edited by Tom Howells and Duncan McCorquodale
London: Black Dog Publishing, 2010. ISBN 978-1-907317-08-8. Pp. 239, illus. STG £24.95 (cloth)
Susan Danforth
Page: 116
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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George Washington's America: A Biography through His Maps. By Barnet Schecter
New York: Walker and Company, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8027-1748-1. Pp. 304, illus. US $67.50 (cloth)
Edward J. Redmond
Pages: 116-117
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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William Faden and Norfolk's 18th-Century Landscape. By Tom Williamson and Andrew Macnair
Oxford: Windgather Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-90511-34-9. Pp. vi, 216, illus., DVD. STG £25.00 (paper)
Paul Hindle
Page: 117
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Nimmo's Inverness Survey & Journal 1806. Edited by Noël P. Wilkins
Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2011. ISBN 978-1-904890-74-4. Pp. 192, illus. Euros €35.00 (cloth)
Jeffrey Stone
Pages: 117-118
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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John Rocque's Dublin: A Guide to the Georgian City. By Colm Lennon and John Montague
Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2010. ISBN 978-1-904890-69-0. Pp. viii, 82, illus. Euros €15.00 (paper)
Eamon O'Flaherty
Pages: 118-119
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Die Cosmographiae Introductio Matthias Ringmanns und die Weltkarte Martin Waldseemüllers aus dem Jahre 1507. By Martin Lehmann
Munich: Martin Meidenbauer, 2010. ISBN 978-3-899-207-6. Pp. 370, illus
John Hessler
Pages: 119-120
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Johann Schöner's Globe of 1515: Transcription and Study. By Chet Van Duzer
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 100, part 5. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2010. ISBN 978-1-60618-005-1. Pp. vi, 217, illus. US $35.00 (paper)
Monique Pelletier
Pages: 120-121
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Johann Georg Kohl: Ein Leben zwischen der Alten und der Neuen Welt. By Thomas Elsmann
Bremen: Carl Ed. Schünemann, 2010. ISBN 978-3-7961-1965-1. Pp. 389, illus. Euros €29.90 (cloth)
Rainer Vollmar
Pages: 121-122
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Dienstbare kaarten: Een cartografische geschiedenis van het Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap en het Tijdschrift 1873–1966. By Paul van den Brink
[Subservient Maps: A Cartographic History of the Dutch Royal Geographical Society and the Journal 1873–1966]. Utrecht Studies in the History of Cartography 12. Houten: HES & De Graaf, 2010. ISBN 978-906194-430-0. Pp. 720, illus. Euros €159.00 (cloth)
Marcel van den Broecke
Page: 122
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Aproximacions a la història de la cartografia de Barcelona. Edited by Carme Montaner and Francesc Nadal
[Approaches to the History of Cartography of Barcelona]. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Institut Cartògrafic de Catalunya, 2010. ISBN 978-84-393-8695-7. Pp. 189, illus. Euros €25.00 (paper)
Guenièvre Fournier-Antonini
Pages: 122-123
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Um Antigo Mapa Corográfico de Portugal (c.1525): Reconstituição a partir do Códice de Hamburgo. By Suzanne Daveau
Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Geográficos, 2010. ISBN 978-972-636-204-3, Pp. 359, illus. Euros €20 (paper)
Bodo Freund
Pages: 123-124
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Cursos e percursos para o Mar Oceano: Intervenções nos rios portugueses e representações da Cartografia Militar. By Maria Helena Dias
Lisbon: Insituto Geográfico do Exército, 2010. ISBN 978-9889-21-0109-5. Pp. 136, illus. Euros €17.89 (paper)
Francesc Nadal
Page: 124
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Special Maps of Persia 1477–1925. By Cyrus Alai
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section one, the Near and Middle East, 99. Leiden: Brill, 2010. ISBN 978-90-04-18401 5. Pp. xvii, 466, illus. Euros €250.00 (cloth)
Rudi Matthee
Pages: 124-125
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India. By Sumathi Ramaswamy
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8223-4610-4 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8233-4592-3 (cloth). Pp. xix, 379, illus. US $99.95 (cloth), $27.95 (paper)
Lisa Blansett
Pages: 125-126
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600–1912. By Kären Wigen
Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-520-25918-8. Pp. xvii. 319, illus. US $39.95; STG £27.95 (cloth)
Jonathan Zwicker
Pages: 126-127
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline. By Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-56898-763-7. Pp. 272. US $50.00; STG £30.00 (cloth)
Tom Conley
Pages: 127-128
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet. By K. Maria D. Lane
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-226-4707-8. Pp. xii, 266. US $45.00; STD £29.00 (cloth)
Michael Mendillo
Page: 128
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Theses in Progress

Editorial
Maps, Management and Mills in Colonial Lima, Peru (1532–1821)
Martha G. Bell & Julie McDougall
Pages: 129-132
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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Bibliography

Bibliography
Wouter Bracke
Pages: 133-153
Published online: 07 Dec 2011
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