Every issue of the IMCoS Journal (appears quarterly) includes a number of book reviews. These are books recently reviewed in our pages. To read more you will need to access the Members Section. If you are not yet a member of IMCoS then please check out our Membership details. Member ship is currently only 40 pounds sterling a year.
Coast Lines. How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change by Mark Monmomier. Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 (custserv@press.uchicago.edu), 2008. ISBN 10: 0-226-53403-0. 228 pp. illustrated. Price UK £25.
Census of Portolan Charts & Atlasesby Richard Pflederer. Privately published by the author 2009. Hardback cover. Xxvi+ 236 pp. + CD-ROM containing database and spreadsheet. Price in US$86 plus postage and packing.
Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570-1641: characteristics and development of a sample of on verso map textsby Marcel van den Broecke. Netherlands Geographical Studies, No.380, Utrecht, 2009, pp.304. ISSN 0169-4839. Euros 30 including postage and packing.
