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UCL Press announce the publication of a new open access book: Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, exploring and describing early modern Russia, 1613-1825, by Denis J. B. Shaw.
The book can be found on the UCL Press website.

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The Newberry has recently completed the digitization of over 750 maps printed in Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Franco Novacco Map Collection, one of the strongest of its kind in the world, reflects Europeans’ evolving conceptions of the world during a time of widespread exploration and colonization.
More information here.

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Publication of the September issue of Maps in History has been delayed due to events beyond our control. We are working hard to have it printed in the coming weeks so that you can receive it in your mailboxes by the end of October.
We apologise for delaying your enjoyment of reading MIH.

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Contents

  • Look at books
    • Moderniteit in kaart (Mapping Modernity)
    • Excursion to the Mapping Modernity Exhibition
    • Plans et cartes de Provence et du Languedoc [Plans and maps of Provence and Languedoc]
  • History and Cartography
    • Cartographic depictions of Ukraine, Part II. By Voldymir Dmyterko
    • The last map of the County of Hainaut? By Jean-Louis Renteux
  • The Brussels Map Circle News
    • The 2024 Map Afternoon
  • International News
    • Honours for two Maltese Map Personalities

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Our member and former secretary, Karen De Coene, have just published (in Dutch) a book by Lannoo and it is about a famous cartographer: Joseph de Ferraris!
"The Europe of the long eighteenth century is rumbling and bustling. Great powers Prussia, France, Spain, Great Britain and Austria clash in successive wars, the Enlightenment makes its appearance and traditions and society are being wrestled with in the salons. Amid all this turmoil, Joseph Jean François de Ferraris (1726-1814) tried to win, and keep, his place among the Habsburg elite. He succeeds admirably. He gets into the good graces of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa and becomes a protégé of Prince Charles of Lorraine and Emperor Joseph II."
More information here.

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Contents

  • Look at books
    • Playing with maps - Cartographic Games in Western Culture
  • History and Cartography
    • Mapping of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
    • Marcus Gerards in stitches
    • Untangling the authors of the four states of the Plan du Cap de Bonne Esperance
  • International News
    • Globes and more: the 2023 Coronelli Symposium in Berlin
  • The Brussels Map Circle News
    • Visit to the exhibition Open kaart – van atlas tot streetmap in Amsterdam

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