68 - September 2020

Looks at books

• Sailing across the World’s Oceans - History & Catalogue of Dutch Charts Printed on Vellum by Günther Schilder and Hans Kok (Nicola Boothby)
• Cartography and Empire: The Padrón Real and the Depiction of the New World by José Maria García Redondo (Luis A. Robles Macias)

Pictures at an Exhibition

• Naples the Noble City and its Kingdom: Geographic Maps, Plans and Views During the Renaissance (Alex Smit)

History and Cartography

• Berghaus’ Map of Syria of 1835, a new step in cartography (Rick Smit)
• Soap atlases of the world (ca 1914 - 1919) ‘Cleanliness is not next to Godliness now-a-days, but next to impossible. Therefore, use soap.’ (Francis Herbert)
• The Carte di Castello and their significance for cartography (Floria Benavides and Pietro Masturzo)
• An Unrecorded Atlas of Battista Agnese identified in a Polish Library (Richard Pflederer)
• A 17th-century cartographic curio? (Wulf Bodenstein)

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