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The Medieval Gough Map, Its Settlement Geography and the Inaccurate Representation of Wales
David I. Bower
Pages: 145-167
Published online: 15 May 2015
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The Portuguese Atlas of Valladolid (Sixteenth Century): A Geometric Reassessment
Joaquim Alves Gaspar
Pages: 168-178
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Reports And Notices

Sixth Imago Mundi Prize Awarded
Page: 178
Published online: 15 May 2015
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The Títulos de Ebtún, Yucatan, Mexico: Mapping Maya Communal Identity in a Colonial Spanish Notarial Context
C. Cody Barteet
Pages: 179-199
Published online: 15 May 2015
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The Mapping of Lancashire by William Smith
Ian James Saunders
Pages: 200-214
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The Duc de Chaulnes Atlas: A Seventeenth-Century French Atlas of Manuscript Military Maps of British and Continental Towns and Cities in the British Library
John Walter Hawkins
Pages: 215-228
Published online: 15 May 2015
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A New Map of the Franco-Brazilian Border Dispute (1900)
Federico Ferretti
Pages: 229-241
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Book Review
Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica: volume 9: Hessel Gerritsz. (1580/81‒1632): Master Engraver and Map Maker, Who ‘Ruled’ the Seas / Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica: General Index of Volumes I‒IX
By Günter Schilder. [Houten:] Hes & De Graaf, 2013. ISBN: 978-90-6194-621-2. Text volume, pp. 592, illus.; map volume, 17 maps printed on 51 sheets. Euro €795.00 / Compiled by Paula van Gestel‒van het Schip. [Houten:] Hes & De Graaf, 2013. ISBN: 978-90-6194-621-2. Pp. 361. (Supplied with volume 9.)
Edward H. Dahl
Pages: 242-243
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Huang yu sou lan: Meiguo guo hui tu shu guan suo cang ming qing yu tu = Reading Imperial Cartography: Ming Qing Historical Maps in the Library of Congress
Compiled by Tianren Lin and Min Zhang. Taiwan: Academia Sinica Digital Center; Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2013. ISBN 978-986-03-9363-7. Pp. 444, illus. US $100.00 (cloth). [Available from Academia Sinica Digital Center for NTD 1500 (http://asdc.sinica.edu.tw/en/single_news_page.jsp?newsId=35) or Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, by making a donation of US $100.00 or more to the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society (contact Ryan Moore, Executive Secretary at [email protected])
Laura Hostetler
Pages: 243-244
Published online: 15 May 2015
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L’espace géographique au Moyen Âge / La terre: connaissance, représentations, mesure au Moyen Âge
By Patrick Gautier Dalché. Florence: Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013. ISBN 978-88-8450-501-9. (Micrologus’ Library, no. 57.) Pp. x, 464. Euro €88.00. / Edited by Patrick Gautier Dalché. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. ISBN: 978-2-503-54753-4. (L’atelier du medieviste, no. 13.) Pp. 710, illus., maps. Euro €65.00 [plus shipping and VAT]
Angelo Cattaneo
Pages: 244-245
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Great Maps: The World’s Masterpieces Explored and Explained
By Jerry Brotton. London and New York: Dorling Kindersley Ltd., and Smithsonian Enterprises, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4654-2463-1. Pp. 256, illus. STG £20.00; US $25.00; CAN $26.00 (cloth)
Robert W. Karrow Jr.
Page: 245
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Maps: Their Untold Stories: Map Treasures from The National Archives
By Rose Mitchell and Andrew Janes. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. ISBN: 978-1408189672. Pp. 255, maps, illus. STG £30.00
Debbie Hall
Pages: 245-246
Published online: 15 May 2015
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A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
By Tim Bryars and Tom Harper. London: British Library, 2014. ISBN 978-0712358569. Pp. 240, maps. STG £25.00
Elizabeth Baigent
Pages: 246-247
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
By Pınar Emiralioğlu. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4724-1533-2. Pp. xx, 184, illus. STG £70.00
Palmira Brummett
Pages: 247-248
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Jesuit Mapmaking in China: D’Anville’s ‘Nouvelle Atlas de la Chine’ (1737)
Edited by Roberto M. Ribeiro with John W. O’Malley, S.J. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-91610-181-7. Pp. [vi], 172, illus. US $70.00 (cloth)
John Day
Pages: 248-249
Published online: 15 May 2015
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London: The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549‒1689
By Robert K. Batchelor. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-226-08065-9. Pp. vi, 334, illus. US $45.00; STG £31.50 (cloth)
Jerry Brotton
Pages: 249-250
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Edinburgh: Mapping the City
By Christopher Fleet and Daniel MacCannell. Edinburgh: Birlinn, in association with the National Library of Scotland, 2014. ISBN 978-1-78027-245-0. Pp. xv, 303, illus. STG £3000 (hardcover)
Barbara Morris
Pages: 250-251
Published online: 15 May 2015
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The Ordnance Survey in the Nineteenth Century: Maps, Money and the Growth of Government
By Richard Oliver. London: The Charles Close Society, 2014. ISBN 978-1-870598-32-3. Pp. xxvii, 607. illus. STG £45.00 (cloth)
J. H. Andrews
Pages: 251-252
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Die Welt aus Augsburg: Landkarten von Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717–1777) und seinen Nachfolgern
By Michael Ritter. Edited by Anton Lotter and Christof Trepesch. Berlin and München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2014. ISBN 978-3-422-07265-7. Pp., 263, illus. EUR €34.90. [Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH Berlin, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 34, D-10999 Berlin.]
Hans-Peter Höhener
Pages: 252-253
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Seeing Underground: Maps, Models and Mining Engineering in America
By Eric C. Nystrom. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-87417-932-3. Pp. xii, 301, illus., maps. US $39.95 (cloth)
Christopher J. J. Thiry
Page: 253
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Das Kosmoskop. Karten und ihre Benutzer in der Pflanzengeographie des 19. Jahrhunderts
By Nils Güttler. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2014. ISBN 978-3-8353-1429-0. Pp. 545, illus. EUR €65.90
Petra Svatek
Pages: 253-254
Published online: 15 May 2015
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The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps
By Benjamin B. Olshin. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-226-14982-0. Pp. ix, 174, illus. US $45.00; STG £31.50 (cloth)
Kirsten Seaver
Pages: 254-255
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Book Review
An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe. The Book of Curiosities
Edited and translated by Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 87. Leiden and Boston: E. J. Brill, 2014. ISBN 978-90-04-25564-7 (hardback); ISBN 978-90-04-25699-6 (e-book). Pp. .xii, .698, illus. Euro €223.00 (cloth)
Petra G. Schmidl
Pages: 255-256
Published online: 15 May 2015
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The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
By Jeremy Black. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-300-16795-5. Pp. xii, 492. US $40.00 (cloth)
Thomas M. Woodfin
Pages: 256-257
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Doctoral Theses in Progress

Marino Sanudo and Pragmatic Geographical Knowledge
Edited by Elizabeth Baigent
Jacky Derrick
Pages: 258-259
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Astronomical, Theological, and Linguistic Conflicts behind Lunar Maps in the Seventeenth Century
Nydia Pineda De Avila
Pages: 259-261
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Chronicle

Chronicle for 2014
Tony Campbell
Pages: 262-276
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Bibliography

Bibliography
Nick Millea
Pages: 277-299
Published online: 15 May 2015
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Reports And Notices

The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap)
Page: 300
Published online: 15 May 2015
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