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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>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 Spring 2014 issue recently published. See </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm"><span style='font-family:Univers'>http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm</span></a><span style='font-family:Univers'> for details on ordering the current or past issues of “<i>The Portolan”</i>. 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. </span><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>"<i>THE PORTOLAN</i>": JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY<br>ISSUE 89 (Spring 2014)<br></span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>Issue 89 (Spring 2014), consisting of<span style='color:red'> </span>72 pages, was published in March 2014 and is in distribution to all paid subscribers and members in good standing of the Washington Map Society. Copies are available for purchase.<span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>JUSTIN DELLINGER’s 2013 Ristow Prize-winning paper presents interesting research into the geographical depiction and importance of a town at the mouth of the Mississippi River. JOHN HESSLER describes early computer mapping now archived at the Library of Congress. PETER MEURER describes the production and non-production of atlases in the early 1500’s in central Europe. PETER DICKSON comments on STEFAAN MISSINNE’s research into the Ostrich Egg and Lenox globes; MISSINNE replies to the comments. LEIGH LOCKWOOD reports on a trip he made with DICK PFLEDERER to see portolan atlases at the Morgan Collection in New York City. JULIE SWEETKIND-SINGER tells the story of the scanning and cataloging of the McLaughlin Collection maps of California as an Island at Stanford University. BILL STANLEY remembers the early formative years in this 35<sup>th</sup> anniversary year of the Washington Map Society<span style='color:red'>. </span>Five books are reviewed. And there is more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>"The Portolan" is published three times per year; issue 90 is due for release in August 2014.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>CONTENTS OF ISSUE 89 – Spring 2014<br></span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'> <br><b>ARTICLES<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>2013 RISTOW PRIZE PAPER</span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'>. “La Balise: A transimperial focal point”, by Justin T. Dellinger<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>“Species of Spaces: The Early Computer Cartography Project at the Library of Congress”, by John W. Hessler <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'>“Non-realized Editions of Ptolemy’s Geography in Early German Humanism”, by Peter Meurer <o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>“Commentary on the Twin Lenox and Ostrich Egg Globes”, by Peter Dickson with response by Stefaan Missinne<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>RECENT PUBLICATIONS</span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'><br>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers;color:#C00000'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>BOOK REVIEWS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>“<a href="http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Catalog/vandenhoonaard-map.shtml"><i>Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography</i></a><span class=MsoHyperlink><i>”</i></span> <span style='font-family:Univers'>(Reviewer: Julie Sweetkind-Singer)</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/arne-molander/the-horizons-of-christopher-columbus-using-the-heavens-to-map-america/paperback/product-20354649.html"><i>The Horizons of Christopher Columbus – Using the Heavens to Map America</i></a><i>.”</i> <span style='font-family:Univers'>(Reviewer: Chip Reynolds) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:Univers'>“Monaco Autrefois”</span></i><span style='font-family:Univers'> (Reviewer: Bert Johnson) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>“<a href="http://www.academia.edu/5173029/The_Vesconte_Maggiolo_World_Map_of_1504_in_Fano_Italy"><i>The Vesconte Maggiolo World Map of 1504 in Fano, Italy</i></a><span class=MsoHyperlink><i>”</i></span> (Reviewer: Dick Pflederer) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“<a href="http://www.niyogibooksindia.com/showcase/212/"><i>Mapping India</i></a>” <span style='font-family:Univers'>(Reviewer: Stephen R. Fox)</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>SHORTER ITEMS</span></b><span style='font-family:Univers;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>1. President’s Spring 2014 Letter, by J.C. McElveen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>2. Washington Map Society Meetings, April – September 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'>3. Exhibitions and Meetings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Univers'>4. Letters to the Editor</span><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>5. Map Site Seeing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Univers'>6. Ristow Prize Competition 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>7. 35th Anniversary of the Washington Map Society – The Beginning – A Look Back, by Bill Stanley <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>8. A Trip to the Portolan Atlases in the Morgan Collection, NYC, by Leigh Lockwood <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>9. Seoul and Maps - 2014 IMCoS Symposium, by Sanghoon JANG <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>10. California as an Island collection now at Stanford, by Julie Sweetkind-Springer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Univers'>11. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Albert H. Small<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>12. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas Sander<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Univers'>AUTHORS OF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>JUSTIN T. DELLINGER is the winner of the 2013 DR. WALTER RISTOW PRIZE FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY. After completing his Master of Arts degree in 2010 at the University of Texas at Arlington, Justin began studying for his Ph.D. with a research focus on colonial Louisiana. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>PETER DICKSON is the author of several books, including “The Magellan Myth: Reflections on Columbus, Vespucci and the Waldseemueller Map of 1507” (Second Edition 2009) which includes a chapter offering the first in-depth review of previous scholarship concerning the Lenox globe</span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>. </span></i><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>STEPHEN R. FOX is a retired US Foreign Service Officer who served in New Delhi from 1993-95. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>JOHN W. HESSLER is Cartographic Reference Specialist, Geography and Map Division Library of Congress and Curator, Jay I. Kislak Collection for the History of the Early Americas. Among his many writings are “The Naming of America – Martin Waldseemüller 1507 World Map and the ‘Cosmographiae Introductio’”, and, with Chet Van Duzer, “Seeing the World Anew – The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 & 1516 World Maps.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>SANGHOON JANG </span><span style='font-family:Univers'>is Curator, National Museum of Korea, and a Member of the IMCoS 2014 Organizing Committee.</span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>BERT JOHNSON, a frequent contributor to “The Portolan” and past president of the WMS, studies maps of the Mediterranean. </span><span style='font-family:Univers;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>JOEL KOVARSKY is proprietor of The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books.</span><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>LEIGH LOCKWOOD is Webmaster of the WMS, and a frequent contributor to “The Portolan.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>PETER H. MEURER has headed several research projects at the Universities of Cologne, Duisburg and Trier as well as in cooperation with private collectors. He is the author of more than 150 publications on pre-1700 history of cartography mainly in Germany and the Low Countries. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textkrper style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'>STEFAAN MISSINNE</span><span style='font-family:Univers'>, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'>PhD, is a Belgian resident in Austria. He is the author of “A Newly Discovered Early Sixteenth-Century Globe Engraved on an Ostrich Egg: The Earliest Surviving Globe Showing the New World” which appeared in “The Portolan”, Issue 87 (Fall 2013) and drew worldwide media and scholarly interest.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'>His research into the actual engraver of the globe continues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i> </i><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>RICHARD PFLEDERER is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “The Portolan” and is a frequent contributor to the journal. He is the author of several reference books on the subject of Portolan charts, the latest “Finding Their Way at Sea: the Story of Portolan Charts, the Cartographers who Drew Them and the Mariners who Sailed by Them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>WILLIAM T. (CHIP) REYNOLDS is Director, New Netherland Museum, and Captain, Replica Ship Half Moon. His article ‘September 11, 2001 Aboard the Half Moon [in New York Harbor]’ appeared in “The Portolan’s” issue 52 (Winter 2001-2002, and his review of “Testarossa” appeared in Issue 73 (Winter 2008).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>THOMAS SANDER is editor of “The Portolan”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>WILLIAM A. STANLEY is Retired Chief Historian, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Owner of Cartographic Associates, antique map and print dealer. A WMS Charter member, he led the 25<sup>th</sup> Anniversary organizing committee.</span><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>JULIE SWEETKIND-SPRINGER is the Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data and the Head of the Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections at Stanford University. She has published numerous articles on map librarianship and on the long term preservation of geospatial information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>Web Site for more information about the Washington Map Society: </span><a href="http://www.WashMapSociety.org"><span style='font-family:Univers'>http://www.WashMapSociety.org</span></a><span style='font-family:Univers'> <br>A <b>listing and index of the contents</b> of all issues of 'The Portolan' is accessible at </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/Portolan-Indexes.htm"><span style='font-family:Univers'>http://www.washmapsociety.org/Portolan-Indexes.htm</span></a><span style='font-family:Univers'> <br>Also at </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm"><span style='font-family:Univers'>http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm</span></a><span style='font-family:Univers'> is information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>on how to order and locate issues of the journal, and procedures for prospective authors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>Online links to several past articles are also at the “Portolan” web page.<br> <br><b>Membership/Subscription Cost:</b> Subscription cost is the same as membership, and may be commenced at any time. To U.S. addresses, the cost is US $45.00 per year. To Canadian addresses the rate is US$50.00 per year. For other foreign addressees, the annual cost is US$ 65.00. Multiple year memberships/ subscriptions are available; the annual cost is reduced if a multiple year membership is chosen – see web site. All non-US address copies of the journal are sent airmail; the US Postal Service no longer offers a surface option. Payment is accepted in US dollars only. Payment may be made via PayPal for membership/subscriptions and back issues. Membership/ subscription/PayPal details form can be found at the Washington Map Society Web Site below. For further information, contact John Docktor at </span><a href="mailto:washmap@gmail.com"><span style='font-family:Univers'>washmap@gmail.com</span></a><span style='font-family:Univers'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><br><b>Current/Past Copies</b>: Copies of 'The Portolan' beginning with issue 66 cost US$16.00 postpaid for US; $18 postpaid to Canada, and $23 to other foreign addresses. Payment is accepted in US dollars only, and may be paid via check or PayPal. Issues 65 and earlier are available at a lower cost. A discount is given for orders of multiple issues. See </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/Purchase-of-Back-Issues.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/Purchase-of-Back-Issues.htm</a><span style='font-family:Univers'> for details on ordering the current or past Portolans.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>NOTE: The Portolan business office will be closed from 3-15 April due to scheduled absence. <br> <br>****************************************<br>Posted By:<br>Thomas F. Sander<br>Editor, 'The Portolan'<br>Washington Map Society<br>9501 Burke Road, # 10793<br>Burke, VA 22009-8036 USA<br> <br>Phone: 703.426.2880 International: +1.703.426.2880 Fax: 703.426.2881 <br>E-mail: Sanderva@erols.com<br>Washington Map Society Web Site: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-family:Univers'>www.WashMapSociety.org </span></span><u><span style='font-family:Univers;color:blue'><br></span></u><span style='font-family:Univers'>Portolan Web Site: </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm"><span style='font-family:Univers'>http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm</span></a><span style='font-family:Univers'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>**************************************************<br><br>excuse cross-posting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>