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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Dear members of International Society for the History of the Map (ISHM) and readers of postings to the ListServ of the ISHM:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><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 Winter 2014 issue recently published. See </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm</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. <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 91 (Winter 2014)<br></span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>Issue 91 (Winter 2014), consisting of<span style='color:red'> </span>76 pages, was published in late November 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'>RICK LAPRAIRIE takes a fresh look at the Clowes Map of 1701 and its use in court actions involving First Nations peoples in Canada. IRA LOURIE presents years of research and the resulting rarity index for the 19<sup>th</sup> century maps of Alvin J. Johnson. BERT JOHNSON gives a first look at the coming ICHC 2015 in Antwerp. The winner of the 2014 RISTOW PRIZE is announced – David Fedman at Stanford University. The renovated G&M Division at the Library of Congress is toured. BILL STANLEY looks to the future in this 35<sup>th</sup> anniversary year of the Washington Map Society. Six 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 92 is due for release in March 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 91 – Winter 2014<br></span></b><span style='font-family:Univers'> <br><b>ARTICLES<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>“Reoriented Perspectives on the Clowes Map of 1701”, by Richard (Rick) Laprarie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>“The U.S. Johnson Map Project’s Rarity Index for Johnson Atlas Maps” by Ira S. Lourie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>“26th ICHC – Antwerp – July 2015,” by Bert Johnson<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'>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.academia.edu/6249524/The_Beatus_Maps._The_Revelation_of_the_World_in_the_Middle_Ages"><i>The Beatus Maps: the Revelation of the World in the Middle Ages</i></a><i> </i>(Reviewer: Leah Thomas)<b><i><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail/books/group-4336.xml?q=author:"><i>The True Geography of Our Country: Jefferson’s Cartographic Vision</i></a><i> </i>(Reviewer: Douglas Lyon)<span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.levenger.com/christopher-columbus-book-of-privileges-13259.aspx"><i>Christopher Columbus Book of Privileges: 1502 – The Claiming of a New World</i></a> (Reviewer: Don McGuirk)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-7848-4"><i><span lang=EN-GB>Encyclopedia of Imaginary and Mythical Places</span></i></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><u>and</u> <a href="http://www.rizzoliusa.com/book.php?isbn=9780847841219"><i>The </i><i><span lang=EN-GB>Book Of Legendary Lands</span></i></a><i><span style='color:black'> </span></i>(Reviewer: J.B. Post) <span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.edmbooks.com/Book/1345/12498/Maps-of-Malaya-and-Borneo.html"><i>Maps of Malaya and Borneo: Discovery, Statehood and Progress</i></a><i> </i>(Reviewer: Hal Meinheit)<b><i><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.scalapublishers.com/userfiles/file/130263938813821867FINALPRMaps.pdf"><i>Mapping the New World – Renaissance Maps from the American Museum in Britain</i></a><i> </i>(Reviewer: Bill Stanley)<b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;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 Winter 2014 Letter, by Ted Callaway<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>2. 2014 Ristow Prize Honorees Announced<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>3. Washington Map Society Meetings, December 2014 – May 2015<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'>4. Exhibitions and Meetings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Univers'>5. Map Site Seeing</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Univers'>6. Ristow Prize Competition 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'>7. The Newly Renovated G&M Division, Library of Congress, by Leigh Lockwood<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'>8. 35th Anniversary - Washington Map Society – Part III – A Look Forward, by Bill Stanley<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>9. Editors Honored on “The Portolan”’s 30th Anniversary, by Leigh Lockwood</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>10. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Karl Barnum, Joe Fitzgerald, Manuel Knight<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>11. 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><b><span style='font-family:Univers;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>TED CALLAWAY is 2014-2016 President of the Washington Map Society,<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'>BERT JOHNSON, a frequent contributor to “The Portolan” is past president of the WMS; he has attended the last eight ICHCs and looks forward to Antwerp.</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><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.<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 style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:Univers'>RICHARD (RICK) LAPRAIRIE is a geographer, an aficionado of early Great Lakes maps and a retired environmental and land use planning policy analyst.</span><i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><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'>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'>IRA S. LOURIE has written several comprehensive articles in issues 49 and 83 of “The Portolan” on A. J. Johnson maps and their production; he has been studying and writing on the subject since the 1980s. <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'>DOUGLAS R. LYON, an avid map collector since 1999, specializes in atlases, maps, books and ephemeral documents relating to the northern West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania panhandle region. <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 style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Univers'>DONALD McGUIRK has had a prolonged interest in early printed world maps. He authored the e-cartobibliography “The Last Great Cartographic Myth: Mer de l’Ouest” and his article "The Presumed North America on the Waldseemüller World Map (1507): A Theory of Its Discovery by Christopher Columbus" appears in the journal “<i>Terra Incognitae” (</i>September 2014)<i>. </i><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'>HAROLD MEINHEIT is a former American diplomat with wide experience in Asia. A regular contributor to “The Portolan”, he is also secretary of the Washington Map Society. <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'>J.B. POST is a former map librarian and a former print & photograph curator. He is the compiler of “An Atlas of Fantasy” and the entry on "Fictitious and Fantastic Places" in “The Oxford Companion to Exploration” (2007).</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;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;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Univers'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Univers'>LEAH MICHELLE THOMAS, former Senior Maps Cataloger and Cataloging Coordinator at The Library of Virginia, is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia State University in Petersburg. <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/TPJ2.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm</a> <span style='font-family:Univers'> is information 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'>****************************************<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/TPJ2.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm</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=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>