Imago Mundi is a fully-refereed, English-language journal founded in 1935. It is the only international, interdisciplinary and scholarly journal solely devoted to the study of early maps in all their aspects. Full-length articles, with abstracts in English, French, German and Spanish, deal with the history and interpretation of non-current maps and mapmaking in any part of the world. Imago Mundi also publishes shorter articles that communicate significant new findings or new opinions. All articles are fully illustrated.
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The IMCoS Journal is a quarterly publication. It includes a wide range articles on the history of cartography addressing Western, Asian and Arabic mapping practices; its scope is designed to interest our worldwide membership.
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The book Engineers of Map Art: 100 Years of the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, 170 Years of Cartography at ETH Zurich is available online in Open Access.
The Portolan is the journal of the Washington Map Society; it furthers the purpose of the Society ‘to support and promote map collecting, cartography and the study of cartographic history.’ The Portolan, the largest and most-widely distributed publication of its kind in the Americas, is issued three times per year, in the Spring/Summer, the Fall and Winter.
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The J.B. Harley Trust Awards for 2026 have been granted to:
María Paula Corredor, Cornell University, U.S.A., 'Charting the empire: Felipe Bauzá and the reconceptualization of the Spanish Pacific during the Age of Revolutions'.
Hannah Kaemmer, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 'Empire fortified: engineering, military architecture, and the making of the British world, 1660-1720'.
Chen Xuerong, University of Fudan, China, 'Nineteenth-century views of the East Asian coast produced by Royal Navy surveyors'.
The series of programs on the history and uses of maps presented by Special Collections at the University of Miami is now available for streaming. All recordings can be found here.
Thousands of IIIF images become searchable in a user-friendly application inspired by the Dutch “Topotijdreis”. Users can follow the evolution of the landscape via the timeline at the bottom, view everything in the greatest detail, click through to the original source files, etc. A collaborative work of Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, STOWA, Allmaps, TU Delft, Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht and De Geomaten.
Want to know more? Browse to the Watertijdreis app.
Professor and member of the Circle Koenraad Van Cleempoel has discovered an exceptional manuscript by Gerard Mercator in the library of El Escorial (Spain). The work contains astronomical observations, mathematical methods, plans for astronomical instruments and three star tables. Doctoral research focusing on the document will be conducted at Hasselt University.
Read more about this discovery on the university's website (in Dutch).
Portolan Charts in Mallorca: The Palau March (Luis A. Robles Macías),pp.25-29
Pictures at an Exhibition
With the Cassini: From the planets and the Moon to the Carte générale de la France (Christiane De Craecker and Jacques Mille), pp.4-8
De Cassis à la Provence avec les cartes de Cassini en couleurs et quelques autres [From Cassis to Provence with Cassini's colour maps, and some others] (Jacques Mille), pp.9-12
All roads lead to Vodgoriacum, again (Dirk Standaert),pp.33-34
Miscellaneous
The 2025 Map Afternoon Saturday, 29 March 2025 (Hannah van Wymeersch), pp.30-32
History and Cartography
The Oldest Maps in the World (Bram Calcoen),pp.13-23
