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The BIMCC currently publishes three illustrated Newsletters per year, in January, May and September.

The Newsletters offer:

• articles and contributions by members and specialists;
• reports on past activities of the Circle and its future programme
• reviews of specialised books and exhibitions;
• an agenda of national and international events;
• auction announcements;
• sponsor announcements.

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Contents of backissues - Titles of articles

• International Conferences and Study Sessions
• Excursions
• Exploring places with maps
• History of cartography
• Looks at books
• Map of the Season
• Pictures at an Exhibition
• Various

International Conferences and Study Sessions

• 2008 Study Session on ancient cartography, Speakers: Peter van der Krogt, Martijn Storms, Eric Leenders & Jan De Graeve, Francis Herbert, H. Decleir (Newsletter No 33, January 2009)
• 2007 International Conference: Formatting Europe – Mapping a Continent. Speakers: A. Cattaneo, L. Miekkevaara, K. Szykula, P. van der Krogt, M. Heinz, R. Barron, G. Palsky, B. Jouret (Newsletter No 30, January 2008)
• 2006 International Conference: Charting the Seas – Seven centuries of maritime cartography, Speakers: Corradino Astengo, Monique Pelletier, Drago Novak, Günter Schilder, Dirk de Vries, Andrew Cook (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• 2005 Study Session: Belgian Cartography – 16th to 19th centuries, Speakers: Jan De Graeve, Joost Depuydt, Wouter Bracke, Luc Janssens, Bernard Jouret, Lisette Danckaert (Newsletter No 24, January 2006)
• 2005 International Conference: Into and Out of Africa: Mapping the Dark Continent in the Later 19th Century, Speakers: Caroline Batchelor, Dr Imre Josef Demhardt, Olivier Loiseaux, Francis Herbert, Prof. Maurice Wynants and Peter Daerden, James L. Newman (Newsletter No 21, January 2005)
• 2003 Study Session: Plans and Views of Towns and Fortified Places, Speakers: F. Herbert, R. Domb, H. U. Feldmann, Ch. van den Heuvel, N. Millea, P. Lombaerde (Newsletter No 18, January 2004)
• 2002 International Conference: Mare Nostrum - Maps of the Mediterranean, Speakers: G. Schilder, A. Ganado, Cyrus Ala'i, M. Pelletier, V. Valerio (Newsletter No 16, January 2003)
• 2002 Fourth Study Session: Cartography with a purpose - Maps for strategies in times of war and peace, Speakers: M. Van den Broecke, J. De Graeve, U. Schnall, H. Kok, M. Watelet, F. and J. Depuydt, F. Herbert, K. Batten (Newsletter No 13, May 2002)
• 2001 Study Session: Books on maps, Speakers: J. Depuydt, M. van Egmond, H. Richard, F. Herbert (Newsletter No 10, May 2001)
• 2000 Study Session: Understanding Maps, Speakers: J. De Graeve, F. Depuydt, M. Watelet (Newsletter No 7, May 2000)
• 2000 International Conference: From the Low Countries to the High Seas - Dutch maps from the age of discoveries, Speakers: F. Herbert, R. Shirley, M. Pelletier, S. de Meer, U. Schnall, H. Kok, P. van der Krogt (Newsletter No 9, January 2001)
• 1999 Study Session: Conservation and restoration of old maps and prints, Speakers: H. Elkhadem, H. Kok, A. Marchal, La Route du Papier (Newsletter No 4, May 1999)
• 1998 International Conference: Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), Mastermind of the Theatre of the World, Speakers: J. Depuydt, R. Shirley, M. Van den Broecke (Newsletter No 3, January 1999)

Excursions

• 2008 Leiden, Leiden University Library (Newsletter No 33, January 2009)
• 2007 Brussels, National Geographical Institute of Belgium (Newsletter No 30, January 2008)
• 2006 Utrecht, Map Room of the University Library in Utrecht (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• 2005 Bitburg, Visit to Dr. Tomasz Niewodniczański in Bitburg, Germany (Newsletter No 24, January 2006)
• 2004 Brussels, The African Museum (Newsletter No 21, January 2005)
• 2004 Brussels, The Rare Books Section at the Royal Library (Newsletter No 21, January 2005)
• The Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp (Newsletter No 12, 2002)
• 2003 Halle, The Vanvolsem Collection (Newsletter No 17, September 2003)
• 2002 Hasselt, The Bohrmann Collection (Newsletter No 15, January 2003)
• 2001 Rotterdam, Maritiem Museum, Sjoerd de Meer, L. Akveld, Ch. Boissevain (Newsletter No 12, January 2002)
• 2000 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, H. Richard, M.-F. Dumoulin, A. Roger, F. Duclos, O. Loiseaux, C. Hofmann (Newsletter No 9, January 2001)
• 1999 Lillo, Commandeurshuis, Private map collection of the low countries, W. Goossens (Newsletter No 7, May 2000)
• 1999 Sint-Niklaas, Mercator Museum, A. Van Der Gucht and G. De Witte (Newsletter No 4, May 1999)
• 1998 Brugge, Stadsarchief, Exhibition of the wall map of the 'Brugse Vrije' by Pieter Pourbus (1571), A. Van de Walle, B. van der Herten (Newsletter No 1, May 1998)

Exploring places with maps

• Report from Poland (Newsletter No 35, September 2009)
• Sic itur ad astra — Voyage to the Romanian heaven (Newsletter No 34, May 2009)
• Genoa (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• A rewarding discovery – The Museum of Maps in Bucharest (Newsletter No 31, May 2008)
• The G.D. Cassini Museum in Perinaldo (Italy) (Newsletter No 29, September 2007)
• The geographical panels in the Medici Guardaroba … revisited (Newsletter No 28, May 2007)
• La Galleria delle Carte geografiche, Vatican, Rome (Newsletter No 26, September 2006)
• Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam (Newsletter No 23, September 2005)
• The Plantin-Moretus Museum – Antwerp (Newsletter No 12, 2002)
• The Library of the Royal Army and Military History Museum, Brussels (Newsletter No 11, September 2001)
• The City Library of Trier and The Niewodniczański Collection (Newsletter No 10, May 2001)
• A guide to the public map collections in the Netherlands Almanak verzamelingen, Topografisch beeldmateriaal; P. Van Den Brink (Newsletter No 7, May 2000)
• Het land van Waas (Newsletter No 6, January 2000)
• The Mercator Museum, Sint Niklaas (Newsletter No 6, January 2000)
• The Royal Archeological Society (Newsletter No 6, January 2000)
• The Royal Library of Belgium - Brussels (Newsletter No 5, September 1999)

History of Cartography

• Facsimile of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas of 1607 (Newsletter No 44, September 2012))
• The Coronelli globes in the Royal Library of Belgium (Newsletter No 35, September 2009)
• R. Fitzroy and the Beagle Channel (Newsletter No 35, September 2009)
• The Peutinger Table (Newsletter No 35, September 2009)
• Antwerp, a forgotten marquisate - The origin of the C. J. Visscher Map (Newsletter No 35, September 2009)
• North-West Canada as seen by Vandermaelen (Newsletter No 34, May 2009)
• Maps of Malta, focal point of the Mediterranean (final part) (Newsletter No 34, May 2009)
• Cities of the world (Newsletter No 33, January 2009)
• Enclaves in Baarle-Nassau & Baarle-Hertog. A cartographic puzzle (Newsletter No 33, January 2009)
• Maps of Malta, focal point of the Mediterranean (Newsletter No 33, January 2009)
• A citizen of Bruges witnesses the first circumnavigation by Magellan (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• The 'Vlassenbroeck' mystery (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• About De Bouge's map of Europe (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• Martino Martini, Novus Atlas sinensis – 1655 (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• The importance of maps at the Battle of Waterloo (Newsletter No 31, May 2008)
• Cosmography and sea charts in the early sixteenth century: Martin Waldseemüller’s case, Monique Pelletier (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• The Portolan charts of Vincentius Demetrius Volcius a Portolan Maker from Dubrovnik (1563-1607), Drago Novak (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• Those brilliant but forgotten scientists of the 19th century, Bernard Jouret (Newsletters No 24, 25 and 26, January, May and September 2006)
• Nova Totius Belgii: Confusion!, Lydia Cordon and Eric Leenders (Newsletter No 25, May 2006)
• Land Surveyors and their Maps in the 18th century Duchy of Brabant, Luc Janssens (Newsletter No 25, May 2006)
• Seven letters to Abraham Ortelius acquired by the Plantin-Moretus Museum in 2004, Dirk Imhof (Newsletter No 24, January 2006)

Looks at books

• Johannes Van Keulen, The great new and enlarged Sea Atlas of the Water World (Newsletter No 35, September 2009)
• Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570-1641). Characteristics and development of a sample of on verso map texts. (Newsletter No 35, September 2009)
• Testarossa (Newsletter No 34, May 2009)
• Courtiers and Cannibals, Angels and Amazons (Newsletter No 34, May 2009)
• Sea charts of the North Sea and of the Baltic Sea (Newsletter No 34, May 2009)
• Four contributions on the History of Cartography by Christian Sandler (1858 -1912) (Newsletter No 34, May 2009)
• History of Cartography of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern... (Newsletter No 33, January 2009)
• Petermann’s Planet – A Guide to German Handatlases and their Siblings … (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, Vol. VIII: Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) and Petrus Kaerius (1571-c.1646) (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• 1800-1950. Vol. II: The rare and small Handatlases including Globes (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• The manuscript atlases by Christian Sgrootens (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• Ptolemy’s Handbook of Geography (Newsletter No 31, May 2008)
• Timor: 1250 - 2005 (Newsletter No 31, May 2008)
• The Island of Mallorca on Maps from the end of the 15th century to about 1700 (Newsletter No 31, May 2008)
• Fra Mauro’s World Map (Newsletter No 31, May 2008)
• Descriptio Romaniae (Newsletter No 31, May 2008)
• The Book of Sea Charts (Newsletter No 31, May 2008)
• The Portolan Atlas of Battista Agnese of 1546 (Newsletter No 30, January 2008)
• The Mapping of Africa – A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700 (Newsletter No 30, January 2008)
• Printed Maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic 1482-1601 (Newsletter No 30, January 2008)
• La Cartographie (Newsletter No 29, September 2007)
• Europe, Europa, Euroopaa, Európa (Newsletter No 29, September 2007)
• Along the Vistula and Memel rivers  (Newsletter No 29, September 2007)
• To the Mountains of the Moon: Mapping African Exploration (Newsletter No 29, September 2007)
• Was Australia Charted Before 1606? The Jave Inscriptions (Newsletter No 29, September 2007)
• 'Monday, this must be Prague' (Newsletter No 29, September 2007)
• Models of the planet Earth and Space (Newsletter No 28, May 2007)
• Les globes de Coronelli (Newsletter No 28, May 2007)
• From painted landscape to surveyed lands (Newsletter No 28, May 2007)
• J. A. Schnebeling's explanation of the wondrous map of Utopia of the year 1694 (Newsletter No 28, May 2007)
• 400 years Johannes Mejer, the great cartographer from Husum (Newsletter No 28, May 2007)
• The Atlas of Atlases, Phillip Allen (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• China in European Maps, Compiled and edited by Min-min Chang (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• The Cartography of the East Indian Islands - Insulae Indiae Orientalis, Dr David E. Parry (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• Five Centuries of Maps and Charts of Croatia – Pet stoljeća geografskih i pomorskih karata Hrvatske, Edited by Drago Novak, Miljenko Lapaine and Dubravka Mlinarić (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• The Van Keulen Cartography — Amsterdam 1680 – 1885 written and compiled by Dirk de Vries, Günter Schilder, Willem Mörzer Bruyns, Peter van Iterson and Irene Jacobs (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• Lorient, la Bretagne et la traite (XVII^e – XIX^e siècles) (Lorient, Brittany and the slave trade, 17th – 19th centuries), Brigitte Nicolas (ed.) (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• L’Héritage des Compagnies des Indes dans les musées et collections publiques d’Europe (The Heritage of the East India Companies in European Museums and Public Collections), Louis Mézin, Pierre Delleur (ed.) (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• Sur la Route des Épices – l’Ile Maurice 1598-1810 (Towards the Spice Islands – Mauritius 1598-1810), Denis Piat (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• Miniature Antique Maps, Geoffrey L. King (Newsletter No 26, September 2006)
• The Map book, edited by Peter Barber (Newsletter No 26, September 2006)
• Valletta Città Nuova - A Map History (1566-1600), Albert Ganado (Newsletter No 26, September 2006)
• The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England, Mary Sponberg Pedley (Newsletter No 25, May 2006)
• Nederlandse zeekaarten uit de Gouden Eeuw, Robert Putman (Newsletter No 25, May 2006)
• Cartografie - De verbeelding van de wereldgeschiedenis, Jeremy Black (Newsletter No 25, May 2006)
• De geschiedenis van de cartografie. De kunst van de kaartenmakers, John Goss (Newsletter No 25, May 2006)
• De wereld in kaart gebracht. Kaarten en hun geschiedenis, Nathaniel Harris (Newsletter No 25, May 2006)
• Ieper à la carte - De Ieperse vestingen in kaart gebracht, Ann Vanrolleghem (Newsletter No 25, May 2006)
• Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America, Margaret Beck Pritchard and Henry G. Taliaferro (Newsletter No 25, May 2006)
• Early Mapping of the Pacific - The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers, and Cartographers Who Mapped the Earth's Greatest Ocean, Thomas Suarez (Newsletter No 25, May 2006)
• Geschiedenis van Brabant van het hertogdom tot heden. Histoire du Brabant, du duché à nos jours, by Prof. R. Van Uytven and others (Newsletter No 24, January 2006)
• Atlas Maior of 1665, abridged facsimile of Joan Blaeu’s atlas by Taschen-Verlag, Peter van der Krogt (Newsletter No 24, January 2006)
• Cartes de l’Île de Ré; Alain Gaudillat (Newsletter No 24, January 2006)
• Itineraria — Letteratura di viaggio e conoscenza del mondo dall'Antichità al Rinascimento, Vol. 2 (Newsletter No 23, September 2005)
• L'aventure cartographique, Jean Lefort (Newsletter No 23, September 2005)
• Everest — The man and the mountain, J. R. Smith (Newsletter No 23, September 2005)
• Von einem, der daheim blieb, die Welt zu entdecken Die Cosmographia des Sebastian Münster oder: Wie man sich vor 500 Jahren die Welt vorstellte , Günther Wessel (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• Geschichte der Kartographie am Beispiel von Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein , Oswald Dreyer-Eimbcke (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• Science and technology in Islam, Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• Inventaris van de handgetekende kaarten in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Afdeling Kaarten en Plannen - Losse bladen (vóór 1800), , Wouter Bracke (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• François de Dainville S.J. (1909-1971), pionnier de l'histoire de la cartographie et de l'éducation, Proceedings of the International Symposium organised by U.M.R. 8586 PRODIG in Paris (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• Landmeten en cartografie op de Koninklijke Militaire Academie in de 19de eeuw, Frits Irrgang (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• L'atlas des atlas, Courrier international (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• La Cartografia Europea tra primo Rinascimento e fine dell'Illuminismo, Proceedings of the International Workshop on The Making of European Cartography (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• Four hundred and twenty-five years later : Egnazio Danti's anemoscope, Gemma Rosa Levi-Donati (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• Journey into Africa - The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79), James McCarthy (Newsletter No 21, January 2005)
• Imperial Footprints - Henry Morton Stanley's African Journeys, James L. Newman (Newsletter No 21, January 2005)
• The Strabo Illustratus Atlas 1545-1571 - A unique sixteenth century composite atlas from the House of Bertelli in Venice, Peter H. Meurer (Newsletter No 20, September 2004)
• Vesting Antwerpen - De Brialmont forten, P. Lombaerde ed. (Newsletter No 20, September 2004)
• Culture et savoirs géographiques en Italie au XIV^e siècle, Nathalie Bouloux (Newsletter No 20, September 2004)
• Van Mercator tot computerkaart, een geschiedenis van de cartographie, F. De Puydt and G. Goossens (Newsletter No 19, May 2004)
• The shaping of Africa - Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Francesc Relaño (Newsletter No 19, May 2004)
• De familie de Bersacques, Martijn Vandenbroucke (Newsletter No 19, May 2004)
• Imago Poloniae - Das Polnische-Litauische Reich in Karten, Dokumenten and alten Drucken in der Sammlung von Tomasz Niewodniczański and Catalogue of the exhibition Brückenschlag - Polnische Geschichte in Karten un Dokumenten (Newsletter No 19, May 2004)
• Les plans de Paris des origines (1493) à la fin du XVIIIe siècle / études, carto-bibliographie, Jean Boutier et al. (Newsletter No 18, January 2004)
• Die Welt in alten Karten und Ansichten - Karten und Atlanten in der Landeszentralbibliothek Schleswig-Holstein, Gerhard Kraack and Jens Ahlers (Newsletter No 18, January 2004)
• Petermann's Planet - A Guide to German Handatlases and their Siblings throughout the World, Jürgen Espenhorst (Newsletter No 18, January 2004)
• The Mapmaker's Quest: depicting new worlds in Renaissance Europe, David Buisseret (Newsletter No 18, January 2004)
• The map that changed the world Simon Winchester, (Newsletter No 18, January 2004)
• Le trentacinque cartelle della Guardaroba Medicea di Palazzo Vecchio, G. Levi-Donati (Newsletter No 17, 2003)
• Collecting old maps, F. J. Manasek (Newsletter No 17, 2003)
• Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, Vol. VII, G. Schilder (Newsletter No 17, 2003)
• Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, New edition, Vol. III, P. van der Krogt (Newsletter No 17, 2003)
• Corpus der älteren Germania-Karten, P. H. Meurer (Newsletter No 16, 2003)
• Grosser Deutscher Kolonialatlas (Facsimile edition) (Newsletter No 16, 2003)
• Historical atlas of central Europe, P. R. Magosci (Newsletter No 16, 2003)
• Spiegel der Seefart, L. J. Waghenaer, Facsimile edition (Newsletter No 15, 2003)
• Konst der Stuurlieden Stuurmanskunst en maritieme cartografie in acht portretten, W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns (Newsletter No 15, 2003)
• Dutch Geography and Africa, T. Dietz, K. Kusters, D. Foeken, P. van der Krogt (Newsletter No 15, 2003)
• Les cartes des Cassini, M. Pelletier (Newsletter No 15, 2003)
• O Tesouro dos mapas a cartografia na Formação do Brasil, P. C. Micelo (Newsletter No 15, 2003)
• Mercator: the man who mapped the planet, N. Crane (Newsletter No 14, 2002)
• Cartographie de la France et du monde de la Renaissance au Siècle des lumières, M. Pelletier (Newsletter No 14, 2002)
• Les îles du mythe à la réalité, M. Pelletier (Newsletter No 14, 2002)
• Atlas universal Diogo Homem, A. P. Marques, L. Kildushevskaya (Newsletter No 14, 2002)
• De lage landen en hun grenzen, P. W. Stuij (Newsletter No 14, 2002)
• Napoli dal Cielo, V. Valerio (Newsletter No 13, 2002)
• Alla Scoperta del Mondo - L'arte della cartografia da Tolomeo a Mercatore, M. Bini (Newsletter No 13, 2002)
• Pocket atlases of 16th to 18th century, P. Pagliani, M. Bonomelli (Newsletter No 13, 2002)
• Maps of Medieval Thought - The Hereford Paradigm, N. R. Kline (Newsletter No 13, 2002)
• The Hereford Map - A transcription and translation of legends with commentary, S. D. Westrem (Newsletter No 13, 2002)
• Die Vorlagen der maritimen Illustrationen in Hartmann Schedels Weltchronik, R. Tebel (Newsletter No 12, 2002)
• Maps of Africa to 1900 in the collection of the University of Illinois, T. J. Bassett, Y. Scheven (Newsletter No 12, 2002)
• Die Jordtsche Kartensammlung aus Flensburg, G. Kraack (Newsletter No 11, 2001)
• Monumenta Cartographica: Tabulae Mundi, W. Kreuer (Newsletter No 11, 2001)
• Die Entschleierung Afrikas, J. Demhardt (Newsletter No 9, 2001)
• World Directory of Map Collections, 4th edition, O. Loiseaux (Newsletter No 9, 2001)
• Early Maps of Mexico, J. Depuydt (Newsletter No 9, 2001)
• Naamvorming en naamverspreiding van Halle door de eeuwen heen, J. Vanvolsem (Newsletter No 8, 2000)
• Monumenta Sibiriae, Quellen zur Geschichte Sibiriens und Alaskas aus Russischen Archiven, W. Hintzsche, T. Nickol (Newsletter No 8, 2000)
• Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, Vol. VI, G. Schilder (Newsletter No 8, 2000)
• Oude kaarten der Nederlanden, 1548-1794, H. A. M. van der Heijden (Newsletter No 6, 2000)
• Cartography of the Netherlands, D. de Vries, P. van der Krogt, J. Smits (Newsletter No 5, 1999)
• Pirî Reis and his charts, M. E. Ôzen (Newsletter No 5, 1999)
• Abraham Ortelius "Aurei Saeculi Imago, of Spiegel van de Gouden Tijd", J. Depuydt, J. De Landtsheer (Newsletter No 4, 1999)
• Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas, M. Van Den Broecke, P. van der Krogt, P. Meurer (Newsletter No 4, 1999)

Map of the Season

• Plan of Valenciennes, 1581 (Newsletter No 33, January 2009)
• Presbiteri Johannis sive Abissinorium Imperii by Ortelius (1573) (Newsletter No 29, September 2007)
• Jerusalem and surroundings by Christiaan van Adrichem (Newsletter No 28, May 2007)
• Portolan of the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, by Vincentius Demetrius Volcius Raguseus,1592 (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• The Struve meridian on the World Heritage List of UNESCO, Jan De Graeve (Newsletter No 26, September 2006)
• Maps by Fricx, Wouter Bracke (Newsletter No 24, January 2006)
• Plan de la Ville de Bruxelles et de ses environs, A map of Brussels edited by Vandermaelen, ca 1838 (Newsletter No 23, September 2005)
• Croquis de l'Afrique Centrale by A. J. Wauters, 1866 (Newsletter No 21, January 2005)
• Map of the Austrian Netherlands - Carte de Cabinet des Pays-Bas Autrichiens, sheet 204/2 (11B) showing Arlon (Newsletter No 20, September 2004)
• Map of Haynault by Jacques Surhon, 1579 (Newsletter No 19, May 2004)

Pictures at an Exhibition

• Czech explorer and cartographer Emil Holub honoured (Newsletter No 35, September 2009)
• The First Atlas of Belgium: An Exhibition at the Royal Library of Belgium (Newsletter No 35, September 2009)
• Exhibition at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas: The 17 Provinces on old maps (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• Oudenaarde 1708 (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• Exhibition at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas: The 17 Provinces on old maps (Newsletter No 31, May 2008)
• Formatting Europe – Mapping a Continent (Newsletter No 30, January 2008)
• A Prince of the Renaissance: Peter-Ernst of Mansfeld (Newsletter No 29, September 2007)
• Magna Regio (Luxembourg with a common region) (Newsletter No 28, May 2007)
• Belgium on maps (Newsletter No 28, May 2007)
• Images de Mons en Hainaut du XVIe au XIXe siècle (Newsletter No 27, January 2007)
• Europas Weltbild in alten Karten-Wolfenbüttel (Newsletter No 26, September 2006)
• First sight, the Dutch mapping of Australia, 1606-1697 (Newsletter No 26, September 2006)
• Catoen & Compagnie (Cotton and Company) - Textile Trade and Cartography (Newsletter No 24, January 2006)
• From the Azores to New Zealand - The 14 Belgian colonies (Newsletter No 24, January 2006)
• In goede banen? - The provincial road atlases in Belgium (Newsletter No 24, January 2006)
• Blauwdruk België - Blue print for Belgium, (Newsletter No 23, September 2005)
• Monumenta Cartographica, (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• La mer, terreur et fascination (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• Plans-reliefs of fortified cities - Permanent exhibition in Paris (Newsletter No 20, September 2004)
• Récits de voyage et cartes anciennes (Newsletter No 20, September 2004)
• Plans-reliefs of fortified cities - Permanent exhibition in Lille (Newsletter No 19, May 2004)
• De Zeven Provinciën / The Seven Provincies, maps of the Netherlands from seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Newsletter No 17, September 2003)
• How Brussels emerged from its fortifications (Newsletter No 16, May 2003)

Various

• The very first Newsletter of the BIMCC: May 1998
• Wulf Bodenstein receives the IMCoS Helen Wallis Award 2008 (Newsletter No 32, September 2008)
• 11th Map Evening (Newsletter No 34, May 2009)
• Sic itur ad astra — Voyage to the Romanian heaven 10 (Newsletter No 34, May 2009)
• 10th Map Evening — The effect of the glasses (Newsletter No 31, May 2008)
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• The Belgian contribution to the measurement of the 30th meridian arc in Africa (Newsletter No 23, September 2005)
• The Mythical Mountains of Kong (Newsletter No 23, September 2005)
• Is there still a “Scheldt question”? (Newsletter No 22, May 2005)
• An extraordinary example of local cartography: the Land Books of Baron von Plotho, Martijn Vandenbroucke (Newsletter No 21, January 2005)
• "Le Jeu de France" - Pierre Duval's Map Game, Prof. Adrian Seville (Newsletter No 21, January 2005)
• Cartographic entries in Stanley's sketch books, Peter Daerden (Newsletter No 21, January 2005)
• On the centenary of the death of Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), Peter Daerden (Newsletter No 19, May 2004)
• Mapping the Antarctic: From fiction to fact, Samuel Humes (Newsletter No 19, May 2004)
• How to look at ancient maps - A few practical tips, Lisette Danckaert (Newsletter No 20, September 2004)
• A brief memento on two cartographic anniversaries - Henri Morton Stanley - Filippo Pigafetta, Wulf Bodenstein (Newsletter No 18, January 2004)
• BIMCC Map evening - 26 April 2003 (Newsletter No 16, May 2003)
• Fascinating 3 D maps of the 17th century, Jean-Louis Renteux (Newsletter No 13, May 2002)
• Maps in Moscow - April 2001, Pierre Parmentier (Newsletter No 10, May 2001)
• Ten key points for the map collector, Rodney Shirley (Newsletter No 9, January 2001)

 

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