My new book arrived !!! #maps #maphistory #cartography — yay!!! 140 pages of scholarly goodness(?) on the history of the study of early maps by comparative map historians! New ideas re cartobibliography etc!!

My lovely is not on Mastodon, but I must nonetheless record the wonderful achievement of having reached our 25th anniversary! Here's a silver map to celebrate -- one of the silver medals coined in 1589 to mark Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation in 1577–80. #maps #cartography #maphistory

I have long been amused by the use of #globes as props for "the precociously smart child" in TV and film. I am now validated by no less a figure than Otto Neurath (1933):

"The globe is also increasingly becoming a decorative item and is used, for example, by theater and film directors to mark the room of a scholar, although hardly anyone today believes that he or she is actually studying on the globe."

Finally got around to writing up a small thing on the 1931 and 1957 world maps issued as promotional items by McCormick's of Baltimore. I was drawn in by the analemma on the 1957 map (analemmas do NOT belong on flat maps!) and got intrigued by the whole map. Weird "projection" too!

https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2025/7/17/spicing-up-the-world-map

Here's the 1957 #map ... #maphistory #cartography #spice

Just arrived at the map library:

Saunder, Damien. 2025. Maps on Vinyl: An Atlas of Album Covers. Volume No 1. n.p.: Cart Publishing.

Such a cool work -- an amazing array of maps of all kinds deployed in fascinating ways!!!

Interview with me on Wisconsin Public Radio earlier today re modern mapping and The History of Cartography. Enjoy!

https://www.wpr.org/shows/larry-meiller-show/ais-mixed-success-and-the-history-of-cartography

#maphistory #maps #cartography

Enjoy!

Third thing if the day #maphistory #cartography #maps — today we submitted Volume Five of The History of Cartography to the press — all one million words and 1000+ color images !!!!! A huge achievement for my team — 2 years to get it into print but the prep is done!!!!!!!!

Second thing of the day: hard copies of my new monograph are now available! A history of the dominant form of map history from 1830s to present, an analysis of its methods and bibliographical practices, its institutions, and the creation after 1950 of "the history of cartography." It's crucial reading for anyone doing map historical research, but then I'm biased!

Buy from https://brill.com/display/title/73079 !!!

#map #maps #maphistory #cartography #historiography

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First thing of the day -- newly acquired #map digitized by Osher Map Library - Walter Crane's famous 1886 Imperial Federation map!!

Online at https://oshermaps.org/map/59097.0001

#mapsinthewild — this might be my last time in the Science Hall office of the history of #cartography project, as the building is about to get entirely rehabilitated before I next have to return in person! So here’s David Woodward’s blow up of 1651 Speed #maps … #maphistory … w photos of Woodward and Harley !!!!

New #maphistory book on 19c mapping by #firstnations peoples in what is now Canada — #maps

Not so humble brag: my personal database of everything I've seen since September 1995—from books to ms letters, but excluding most maps—plus bibliographical references I've collected, just passed 23,000 records. Wow! Of these, I've tagged 15,585 as having something to do with #maps and #cartography, of which I further tagged another 12,224 as having some historical aspect. #maphistory

Just need the time to organize and publish online somehow as a public resource!

Have a fun map to celebrate!

Just to say that I am back in Charlottesville this week, at the University of Virginia, teaching my #maphistory course at Rare Book School — day one done!! #maps #cartography — here’s Thomas Jefferson’s rotunda!

The Whitlock map is a great LA story: https://www.getty.edu/news/getty-la-metro-whitlock-map-digitization #thegetty @mhedney #losangeles #cartography #maphistory #womenandmaps

I just approved the final proofs for the next book!!! Wow!

COMPARATIVE MAP HISTORY AND 'THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY' = 140 pages of sheer scholarly goodness (if you're into such things!)

Brill will release the book at the end of July: https://brill.com/display/title/73079

My thanks to Carla Lois for including this beastie in her series, Brill Research Perspectives in Map History !!

2 new posts at mappingasprocess.net, one on maps as palimpsest and being misled by poor citation practices in 1897, the other with a link to *FREE* download of preprint of a new essay on #maphistory #maps and #cartography in Journal of Historical Geography!

Boston area #map and #cartography heads: tons of map history books are at Brattleboro St Books — I mean LOTS of #maphistory — I grabbed a bunch but many many more still thee

The early 15th-century "Borgia map" was made from metal with enamel inlay; the 1797 facsimile is much misunderstood. I in turn was confused by the available images online; only some timely interventions from librarians helped me sort out the material conditions! I still need to go look at actual things, though (March and May) and maybe a trip to Rome to see the original!

https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2025/2/26/materiality-and-the-limits-of-internet-research-the-borgia-map-and-its-facsimiles

There's a great podcast on #maps, #cartography, and #maphistory.

"What's Your Map?" is found on all podcast services and at https://oculi-mundi.com/podcast.

Host Jerry Brotton interviews scholars, writers, designers, and artists about all kinds of maps and mapping. It's as much about interests and personal history as about maps. Fascinating!

The latest episode dropped this a.m., with ME (!) talking about one of my favoretist world maps (Joan Blaeu 1662 (image), the death of cartography, etc.

I’ve been awaiting this new book on late medieval and renaissance French manuscript maps as art by Camille Serchuk … just arrived!