The Portolan

Issue #70 - Winter 2007

 ARTICLES

Latin Texts on Old Maps: Elementary Latin grammar and cartographic word lists, by Peter van der Krogt

Putting America on the Map: The Achievement of Medieval Mapmakers, by Evelyn Edson

Exploring the Early Americas - An Exhibit at the Library of Congress, by Arthur Dunkelman

ICHC 2007 in Berne, by Bert Johnson

IMCoS 2007 in Guatemala, by Barbara Keck

On the Waldseemüller Trail, by Thomas Sander

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

The World Map: 1300-1492 (Reviewer: Tom Conley)

London: A Life in Maps (Reviewer: Peter Porrazzo

SHORTER ITEMS

1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 2008

2. President’s Winter 2007 Letter, by William A. Stanley

3. Exhibitions and Meetings

4. Map Site Seeing

5. Introducing Peter Porrazzo, by William A. Stanley

6. Ristow Prize Winners 2007 Announced

7. Letters to the Editor

8. Ristow Prize Competition 2008

9. WMS Annual Business Meeting - April 29, 2007, by Steven Vogel

10. WMS Annual Dinner – May 18, 2007, by Thomas Sander

11. Newspaper Maps: WMS Visits the Washington Post - October 27, 2007, by Howard Lange

12. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Evelyn Edson, Stephen Hanly, Nikolas Schiller

13. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander