The Portolan

Issue #124 - Winter 2025

ARTICLES

Selling Virginia: Herman Bőÿe, State Maps, and the Nineteenth-Century Marketplace  by Martin Brückner

The Library of Virginia, Preserving State and National Treasures  by Cassandra Britt Farrell

Compiled from ‘Late’ and ‘Actual’ Surveys: The First Official State Maps  by Ronald Grim

Antique Map Collecting Series: An Introduction to Antique Map Collecting & Glossary of Terms  by Eliane Dotson

Focus on Exploring New Cartographic Frontiers and Personal Insights  by Louis Miller

The IMCoS Annual Symposium 2025: Maine Highlights and Reflections  by Tom Sander and Copilot

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 Louis Miller.

BOOK REVIEWS

This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World (Reviewer: Whitney Durham)

Albert Ganado: A Life Not So Ordinary (Reviewer: Vladimiro Valerio)

The Geography of Hate: The Great Migration through Small-Town America (Reviewer: Donovan Weight)

Churchill’s Secret Chart Makers: The Road to D-Day and Beyond in Somerset, 1939–1945 (Reviewer: Julie Sweetkind-Singer)

SHORTER ITEMS

1. WMS President’s Winter 2025 Letter, by Jeffrey Katz

2. Washington Map Society Meetings Program, Winter 2025-2026, by Ron Grim

3. Exhibitions and Meetings, by Tom Sander

4. Ristow Prize Competition 2026

5. Cartographic Notes, by Tom Sander

6. Internet Map Sites (non-commercial)

7. Index to Advertisers