Contents

• Looks at books
  • The world’s masterpieces explored and explained
  • Collecting Old Maps
• History and Cartography
  • How old are portolan charts really?
  • The Modern Atlas as Diplomatic Gift
  • La cartographie des traités (XVe – XXe siècles)
  • The rectification of the northern border of France in 1779, in the field, in La Flamengrie
• Interview
  • How I Got Into Cartography: Joost Depuydt
• Map Circle News
  • Mapping the Ottoman Empire
  • Brussels Map Circle Programme for 2016
• International news
  • 13th International Symposium for the Study of Globes
  • The 33rd IMCoS International Symposium in Cape Town
  • Perthesforum inaugurated in Gotha (Germany)
  • Arabic Geography in the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha now registered in the UNESCO Memory of the World (MOW) Programme
  • Malta Map Society launches its Journal
  • ICA Commission on the History of Cartography - New Management
  • In Memoriam Thomas D. Goodrich (1927 – 2015)
  • Paris Map Fair participation by the Brussels Map Circle
• Events calendar
• Exhibition calendar
• Auction calendar