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This thrice-yearly journal with articles on maps, the history of cartography, and exploration is the only journal of its kind in the Americas. Below is information on the issue just published. See <http://www.portolan.washmap.org/> http://www.portolan.washmap.org for details on ordering the current or past issues of The Portolan. That link also takes the reader to the contents list of all back issues and an index to those issues. The focus of the society and the journal is not solely Washington; topics are widespread in scope. "THE PORTOLAN": JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY ISSUE 78 (Fall 2010) -------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 78 (Fall 2010), consisting of 72 pages, was published in August 2010 and is now in distribution to all subscribers and members in good standing of the Washington Map Society. Copies are available for purchase. MARIANNE McKEE weaves a fascinating tale of a landmark map of Virgina, what led to its 1859 corrections, and how original copper plates of the map were used to produce 21st century maps. SCOTT BERG looks between the lines of LEnfants 1791 plan for the capital of the USA, and relates intended and unintended thoughts of the mapmaker. EARL McELFRESH provides fascinating insights about the role maps played in the events leading to the US Civil Wars battle of Gettysburg. Seven book reviews take the reader to maps of Norway, Covens & Mortier, Spain, the USA (allegorical maps), Europe, Greece, in addition to the history of cartography. One article relates the formation of the Malta Map Society, while another describes the increasing mounting of maps to the Internet by the Library of Virginia. Four Washington Map Society events are described. And there is more. "The Portolan" is published three times per year; issue 79 is due for release in November 2010. ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS OF ISSUE 78 FALL 2010 ARTICLES From Contracts to Copperplates: The Making of the 1827 State Map of Virginia, the Corrections in 1859, and the Copperplate Printing Project of 2004 by Marianne McKee The City Plan as Work of Art: Intended and Unintended Meanings in Pierre Charles L'Enfant's 1791 Manuscript Plan of Washington, D.C by Scott Berg Mapping and Robert E. Lees Gettysburg Campaign by Earl McElfresh RECENT PUBLICATIONS This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky. BOOK REVIEWS Maps and Mapping of Norway, 1602-1855 (Reviewer: Barbara McCorkle) Covens & Mortier. A Map Publishing House in Amsterdam 1685-1866 (Reviewer: Alice Hudson) History of Cartography; Enlarged Second Edition (Bagrow) (Reviewer: Bert Johnson) Kleiner Atlas Amerikanischer Überempfindlichkeiten (Reviewer: Imre Demhardt) Catalogo de cartographia, .. la Sociedad Bilbaina (Reviewer: Juan Ceva) Formatting Europe Mapping a Continent (Reviewer: Thomas Sander) Printed Maps of Greece, 1477-1800 (Reviewer: Bert Johnson) SHORTER ITEMS 1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2010 April 2011 2. Presidents Fall 2010 Letter, by Dennis Gurtz 3. Exhibitions and Meetings 4. Map Site Seeing 5. 2011 Ristow Prize Competition 6. Patricia Ann Vavra (1931 2010) 7. WMS Business Meeting, March 2010, by Steve Vogel 8. WMS Members Map Evening, March 2010, by Thomas Sander 9. WMS at the AAG, April 2010, by Thomas Sander 10. WMS Annual Dinner, May 2010, by Thomas Sander 11. The Malta Map Society, by Rod Lyon and Thomas Sander 12. Library of Virginia Online Map Collections, by Cassandra Farrell 13. Spotlight on the WMS Membership John F.C. Glenn, Fay Huidekoper-Cope, Ira S. Lourie 14. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander AUTHORS OF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE SCOTT W. BERG, Assistant Professor of English at <http://www.gmu.edu> George Mason University, is the author of Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles LEnfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington D.C. JUAN CEVA is Vice President for Southern California of the California Map Society. IMRE JOSEF DEMHARDT is Professor and the Jenkins and Virginia Garrett Chair in the History of Cartography of Cartography in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. CASSANDRA (SANDY) FARREL is Map Specialist and Senior Research Archivist at the Library of Virginia. ALICE HUDSON is the recently retired Chief of the Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division of The New York Public Library. She currently is on the faculty of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia HUBERT O. (BERT) JOHNSON, a past president of WMS and frequent contributor to The Portolan, lived in Greece, collects Greek maps, and visits there when he can. JOEL KOVARSKY is proprietor of The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books. ROD LYON is a member of the Committee of the Malta Map Society BARBARA B. McCORKLE, former curator of the map collection at Yale, continues her interest in things cartobibliographical, having recently published Cartobibliography of Maps in 18th Century British and American Geography Books on-line. EARL McELFRESH is co-owner, cartographer and map historian for McElfresh Map Company in Olean, NY. He is the author of Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War. MARIANNE M. McKEE retired in early 2005 from the Library of Virginia, where she worked full-time since 1982 and with the map collection since 1987. She is co-editor with Richard W. Stephenson of Virginia in Maps: Four Hundred Years of Settlement, Growth, and Development. THOMAS SANDER is editor of The Portolan. STEVE VOGEL is Secretary of the Washington Map Society. ------------------------------- Web Site for more information about the Washington Map Society is at its home page: <http://www.washmap.org/> http://www.washmap.org A listing and index of the contents of all issues of 'The Portolan' is accessible at <http://www.portolan.washmap.org/> http://www.portolan.washmap.org Also at this location is information on how to order and locate issues of the journal, and procedures for prospective authors. Membership/Subscription Cost: Subscription cost is the same as membership, and may be commenced at any time. To U.S. addresses, the cost is US $37.00 per year. To Canadian addresses the rate is US$42.00 per year. For other foreign addressees, the annual cost is US$ 56.00. Multiple year memberships/ subscriptions are available; the annual cost is reduced if a multiple year membership is chosen. All non-US address copies of the journal must be sent airmail; the US Postal Service ended the surface option in May 2007. Payment is accepted in US dollars only. Those outside the US may use PayPal. A membership/ subscription/PayPal details form can be found at the Washington Map Society Web Site below. For further information, contact John Docktor at wash...@gmail.com Current/Past Copies: Copies of 'The Portolan' beginning with issue 66 cost US$14.00 postpaid for US; $16 postpaid to Canada, and $20 to other foreign addresses. Payment is accepted in US dollars only. Foreign orders may be paid via PayPal; see above. Issues 65 and earlier are available at a lower cost. A discount is given for orders of multiple issues. See <http://www.portolan.washmap.org/> http://www.portolan.washmap.org for details on ordering the current or past Portolans. **************************************** Posted By: Thomas F. Sander Editor, 'The Portolan' Washington Map Society P.O. Box 10793 Burke, VA 22009-0793 USA Phone: 703.426.2880 International: +1.703.426.2880 E-mail: sande...@erols.com Washington Map Society Web Site: www.washmap.org <http://www.washmap.org%20%0b> Portolan Web Site: www.portolan.washmap.org <http://www.portolan.washmap.org%20%20%0b> ************************************************** excuse cross-posting From: Thomas Sander [mailto:sande...@erols.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:41 PM To: 'Discussion group for map history' Subject: In The Portolan, Issue 77: Early American Postal Mapping Apianus Map of 1520 Post-WW1 Cartography - Maps on Clocks - Maps in a Shakespeare Library Waldseemüller Mediterranean Sea David Thompson Cartographic Curiosities This thrice-yearly journal with articles on maps, the history of cartography, and exploration is the only journal of its kind in the Americas. Below is information on the issue just published. See <http://www.portolan.washmap.org/> http://www.portolan.washmap.org for details on ordering the current or past issues of The Portolan. That link also takes the reader to the contents list of all back issues and an index to those issues. The focus of the society and the journal is not solely Washington; topics are widespread in scope. "THE PORTOLAN": JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY ISSUE 77 (Spring 2010) -------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 77 (Spring 2010), consisting of 72 pages, was published in March 2010 and is now in distribution to all subscribers and members in good standing of the Washington Map Society. Copies are available for purchase. LARRY CALDWELL and MICHAEL BUEHLER present a major study on the maps of early American postal cartographer Abraham Bradley. DONALD McGUIRK compares the Apianus and Waldseemuller world maps and reveals a census of Apianus map holdings. MATTHEW MINGUSs Ristow Prize Winning article, describes the struggle among renowned cartographers after World War I to craft the map of the world. DAN TRACHTENBERG enlightens on the tiny maps often included on the faces of American grandfather clocks. Valuable map holding of the Folger Shakespeare Library are described. Seven book reviews take the reader to the world of Waldseemuller, Michael of Rhodes, the Apostle Paul, David Thompson, and Spanish cartographer, Juan Antonio González Cañaveras. Other reviews look at miniature maps of Malta and cartographic curiosities that some today describe as strange maps. And there is more. "The Portolan" is published three times per year; issue 78 is due for release in August 2010. ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS OF ISSUE 77 SPRING 2010 ARTICLES Picturing a Networked Nation: Abraham Bradleys Landmark U.S. Postal Maps by Larry Caldwell and Michael Buehler The Forgotten First Map with the Name of AMERICA (The 1520 Apianus World Map: History, Census and Comparison with Waldseemüllers 1507 World Map) by Don McGuirk Postwar Cartography and the Struggle to Build (and Destroy) the World Picture: A Few Case Studies by Matthew D. Mingus Ristow Prize Winner 2009 Maps on Antique American Grandfather Clocks by Daniel Trachtenberg A WMS Evening at the Folger Shakespeare Library by Hal Hardaway RECENT PUBLICATIONS This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is under the direction of Joel Kovarsky. BOOK REVIEWS The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America its Name (Reviewer: Peter Porrazzo) The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A 15th Century Maritime Manuscript (Reviewer: Richard Pflederer) Mapping the Footsteps of the Apostle Paul (Reviewer: Bert Johnson) The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1: The Travels, 1850 Version (Reviewer: James Walker) Miniature Maps of Malta (Reviewer: Howard Lange) Juan Antonio González Cañaveras Planisferio o carta general de la Tierra, Madrid 1800 (Reviewer: Juan Ceva) Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities (Reviewer: J.B. Post) SHORTER ITEMS 1. Washington Map Society Meetings, April May 2010 2. Presidents Spring 2010 Letter, by Howard Lange 3. Exhibitions and Meetings 4. Map Site Seeing 5. 2010 Ristow Prize Competition 6. Spotlight on the WMS Membership Patricia Seed, Stefan Shrier, Henry Taliaferro 7. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander AUTHORS OF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE MICHAEL BUEHLER is the principal of Boston Rare Maps, a firm specializing in important, rare and unusual American maps and prints. LARRY CALDWELL, a long-time collector of maps profiling the exploration and settlement of North America, serves on the Board of Directors and the Board of Review of the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library. JUAN CEVA is Vice President for Southern California of the California Map Society. HAL HARDAWAY is a retired U.S. Navy officer and former consultant whose cartographic interests are eclectic, but tend to focus upon early Virginia and the colonies. HUBERT O. (BERT) JOHNSON, a past president of WMS and frequent contributor to The Portolan, lived in Greece, collects Greek maps, and visits there when he can. JOEL KOVARSKY is proprietor of The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books. HOWARD LANGE, a former American diplomat and the 2008-2010 President of the Washington Map Society, resided from 1989-1992 in a village halfway between Maltas walled city of Mdina and its fortified city of Valletta. DONALD McGUIRK is a retired pediatrician with a prolonged interest in early printed world maps. His current interest is in the cartographic myth, Mer de LOuest. MATTHEW D. MINGUS is the winner of the 2009 DR. WALTER W. RISTOW PRIZE FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVENMENT IN THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY. He is an MA student in the Department of History at the University of Florida. RICHARD PFLEDERER is the author of a series of five detailed catalogues of portolan charts in major libraries. His most recent work, Census of Portolan Charts and Atlases, was published in 2009. He is the author of the Commentary which accompanies the facsimile publication of the Testarossa manuscript Breve Conpendio del Arte de Navigare, a 16th century Venetian nautical manuscript, now preserved in the Royal Geographical Society. PETER PORRAZZO is the Treasurer of the Washington Map Society. His review of The Naming of America - Martin Waldsemüllers 1507 World Map and Cartographiae Introcutio appeared in the The Portolan, Issue 72 (Fall 2008). J. B. POST is a former map librarian and a former print & photograph curator who is currently retired and involved in local history projects in the western Philadelphia suburbs. THOMAS SANDER is editor of The Portolan. DANIEL TRACHTENBERG, a retired physician, is an antique collector whose collections include powder horn maps, clocks, and early maps of America. JAMES V. WALKER is a retired physician whose collection interests focus on Western North America. ------------------------------- Web Site for more information about the Washington Map Society is at its home page: <http://www.washmap.org/> http://www.washmap.org A listing and index of the contents of all issues of 'The Portolan' is accessible at <http://www.portolan.washmap.org/> http://www.portolan.washmap.org Also at this location is information on how to order and locate issues of the journal, and procedures for prospective authors. Membership/Subscription Cost: Subscription cost is the same as membership, and may be commenced at any time. To U.S. addresses, the cost is US $37.00 per year. To Canadian addresses the rate is US$42.00 per year. For other foreign addressees, the annual cost is US$ 56.00. Multiple year memberships/ subscriptions are available; the annual cost is reduced if a multiple year membership is chosen. All non-US address copies of the journal must be sent airmail; the US Postal Service ended the surface option in May 2007. Payment is accepted in US dollars only. Those outside the US may use PayPal. A membership/ subscription/PayPal details form can be found at the Washington Map Society Web Site. For further information, contact John Docktor at <mailto:wash...@earthlink.net> wash...@earthlink.net Current/Past Copies: Copies of 'The Portolan' beginning with issue 66 cost US$14.00 postpaid for US; $16 postpaid to Canada, and $20 to other foreign addresses. Payment is accepted in US dollars only. Foreign orders may be paid via PayPal; see above. Issues 65 and earlier are available at a lower cost. A discount is given for orders of multiple issues. See <http://www.portolan.washmap.org/> http://www.portolan.washmap.org for details on ordering the current or past Portolans. **************************************** Posted By: Thomas F. Sander Editor, 'The Portolan' Washington Map Society P.O. Box 10793 Burke, VA 22009-0793 USA Phone: 703.426.2880 International: +1.703.426.2880 E-mail: sande...@erols.com Washington Map Society Web Site: www.washmap.org <http://www.washmap.org%20%0b> Portolan Web Site: www.portolan.washmap.org <http://www.portolan.washmap.org%20%20%0b> ************************************************** excuse cross-posting
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