Newsletter No 32

Titles of articles

Exploring places with maps

• Genoa

History of Cartography

• A citizen of Bruges witnesses the first circumnavigation by Magellan
• About De Bouge's map of Europe
• Martino Martini, Novus Atlas sinensis – 1655
• The 'Vlassenbroeck' mystery

Looks at books

• 1800-1950. Vol. II: The rare and small Handatlases including Globes
• Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, Vol. VIII: Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) and Petrus Kaerius (1571-c.1646)
• Petermann’s Planet – A Guide to German Handatlases and their Siblings …
• The manuscript atlases by Christian Sgrootens

Pictures at an Exhibition

• Exhibition at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas: The 17 Provinces on old maps
• Oudenaarde 1708

Miscellaneous

• Wulf Bodenstein receives the IMCoS Helen Wallis Award 2008