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ABEYDEERA, Ananda (Dr)
119, boulevard de la Boissière
93100 MONTREUIL
France

Research interests:
South and South-east Asia with special emphasis on Taprobane

Publications:
`Taprobane, Ceylan ou Sumatra? Une confusion féconde', Archipel 47 (1994): 87-123.

Caerte van Oostlant of the Dutch Chartographer Cornelis Anthoniszoon, 1543 (Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek, 1995 (facsimile).

The Chart of West Indies and Central America -- Attributed to Gerolamo Verrazano pre-1528 (Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek, 1995 (facsimile).

`Encore Taprobane. A propos du témoignage tardif de Thomaso Porcacchi (1576)', Archipel 49 (1995): 125-136.

`Facsimiles of the charts attributed to Reinel, Ribeiro/Chaves, Verrazano and a painted map by Cornelis Anthoniszoon from the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel', Wolfenbütteler Bibliotheks-Informationen, 20:1-2 (1995): 18-25.

The First Original Portuguese Chart of the Indian Ocean Attributed to Jorge or Pedro Reinel circa 1510 (Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek, 1995 (facsimile).

Landkarten, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 1995 (set of 10 postcard maps).

The Wolfenbüttel Spanish Chart of the Far East Attributed to Diogo Ribeiro, circa 1532 (Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek, 1995 (facsimile).

The Wolfenbüttel Spanish Chart of the New World Attributed to Diogo Ribeiro, circa 1532 (Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek, 1995 (facsimile).

`Une contribution portugaise à la cartographie des Grandes Découvertes: la découverte portugaise de Ceylan: problèmes de transition de la représentation ptoléménne de Taprobane à Ceil|o', Studia 54-55 (1996): 211-235.

`The factual description of a sea route to India and Ceylon by a Greek master mariner from Roman Egypt', Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 19 (1996): 127-216.

d'ABOVILLE, Christian
5 Av Horace Vernet
78110 LE VESINET
France
Tel: (33) 1 39 76 12 57

Research interests:
Maps and engravings of Dauphiné of France in the 17th and 18th centuries (mostly the area of Briançon)

ADAMS, Brian W.
Flat 3
30 Munster Road
LONDON SW6 4EW
UK
Tel: (44) 0171 731 2416

Research interests:
Ordnance Survey projections and co-ordinate systems before the national grid

Publications:
`Hounslow Heath, Hampton and Heathrow -- Roy re-visited and re-measured', Sheetlines 50 (1997): 46-47.

`The contruction of Ordnance Survey maps', in Ordnance Survey Small-Scale Maps Indexes: 1800-1998 (Kerry: David Archer, 1998).

AKERMAN, James R. (Dr)
Director
Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography The Newberry Library
60 Walton Street
CHICAGO, Illinois 60610-3380
USA
Tel: (1) 312 255 3523 (office)
(1) 773 907 0271 (home)
Fax: (1) 312 255 3513
E-mail: akermanj(at)newberry.org [NB. You need to replace (at) with the @ symbol].

Research interests:
American and British road and tourism maps (late 19th-early 20th centuries); history of educational cartography; history of atlases; social history of cartography

Publications:
`Blazing a well-worn path: cartographic commercialism, highway promotion, and automobile tourism in the United States, ca.1880-1930', in Robert Rundstrom (ed), Introducing Cultural and Social Cartography, Cartographica 30:1 (1993): 10-20.

`Atlas, la genèse d'un titre', in Marcel Watelet (ed), Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas Europae. Facsimilé des cartes de Gérard Mercator contenues dans l'Atlas de l'Europe, vers 1570-1572 (Anvers, Fonds Mercator, 1994), 14-29. [English edition: The Mercator Atlas of Europe (Pleasant Hill, Oregon: Walking Tree Press, 1997).]

`From books with maps to books as maps: the editor in the creation of the atlas idea', in Joan Winearls, ed, Editing Early and Historical Atlases (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), 3-48.

`The structuring of political territory in early printed atlases', Imago Mundi 47 (1995): 138-154.

(with Gerald Danzer), Paper Trails: Geographic Literacy via American Highway Maps (Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1996).

ÅKERSTRÖM-HOUGEN, Gunilla (Prof)
Art History Department
University of Gothenburg
Box 200
S-40530 GOTHENBURG
Sweden
Tel: (46) 031 773 2793 (office)
(46) 031 185 187 (home)
Fax: (46) 031 773 2780 (office)
(46) 031 185 187 (home)

Research interest:
Old maps of Rome

Publication:
`Urbis Romae Prospectus 1593: Antonio Tempestas karta över Rom' in I. Bergström et al (eds), Det skapande jaget: konsthistorisk texter tillägnadeMaj-Brit Wadell (Göteborg: Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 1995), 159-172.

Adair, John MOORE

Adomnán O'LOUGHLIN

Agnese, Battista FALCHETTA, GALLIANO

Aleotti, G.B. ROSSI

Almásy László TÖRÖK

Anderson, Hugh LANE

Angielus, Nicolaus BRICHZIN

Anthoniszoon, Cornelis ABEYDEERA

Après de Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste d' COOK, A S, FILLIOZAT

Armstrong, Andrew CARROLL

Arrowsmith (Aaron, Samuel, John) HERBERT, PRESCOTT, D F

Arrangement is by continents (with separate sections for the British Isles), oceans, polar regions and world. The Americas and Asia are further broken down into subregions.

AFRICA. BEDERMAN, SALES, STONE, TOLMACHEVA
before 1500 FALCHETTA
15th-19th centuries HADSEL
19th-century LOISEAUX
atlas by Arcangelo Ghisleri CASSTI MORESCHI, MANGANI
boundaries, political GRIFFITHS
explorers STONE
geopolitical view from fascist Italy ATKINSON
German colonies wall map SPERLING
indigenous cartography BASSETT
* scripts, mathematics and cartography MARSHALL, B A
* Swahili geographical thought TOLMACHEVA
kingdoms of, and salt trade RIZZO
maps as progenitors of territorial disputes in southern SELIGMANN
missionary cartography KOKKONEN
mythology in medieval travel literature McKENZIE
on medieval and Renaissance maps RELAÑO
place-names LOISEAUX
Portuguese expansion in CARVALHO DIAS
symbolic representations in colonial period CASTI MORESCHI

regions
Libya, Italian occupation of ATKINSON
Sahel, early cartography of the CSAPLOVICS
Southern Africa
* Botswana STONE
* Cape Colony BIALAS
* military mapping in Boer War NOLAN
* Northern Rhodesia STONE
* surveying and mapping in LIEBENBERG
* Swaziland STONE
West Africa BASSETT
* cartography and empire building BASSETT
* Danish colonial mapping HOPKINS
* Ivory Coast BASSETT

Aerial photography
Anthrometric cartography. See Thematic maps
Antique maps
Antiquity
Arab cartography. See Islamic cartography
Archaeological cartography. See Thematic maps
Architectural maps
Archives. See Libraries and archives
Art and cartography
Astronomy. See Celestial cartography
Atlases
Bible. See Religious cartography
Bibliography
Biography
Books, maps in
Boundaries
Cadastral maps
Cartobibliography
Cartographical curiosities
Cartographical invention. See Mythical places
Cartographic revolution
Catalogues
Celestial cartography
Charts
City plans. See Town and city plans
Collections. See Cartobibliography; Libraries and archives
Colonial cartography. See Overseas and colonial cartography
Commercial cartography
Computer-based applications
Compass roses
Computus manuscripts. See Middle ages
Cosmography
Cycling maps. See Road and route maps
Disaster maps. See Thematic maps
Discovery and exploration
Eclipse maps. See Celestial cartography
Education
Embroidered maps. See Textile maps
Engineering and cartography
Engravers. See Techniques of map production
Epistemology. See Theory and methodology
Estate maps
Ethnographical maps. See Indigenous cartography; Thematic maps
Exhibitions
Exploration. See Discovery and exploration
Facsimiles
Fire insurance plans
Forestry
Fortifications. See Military mapping
Frontispieces
Games
Gardens
Gender. See Women
Geodesy
Geographical information systems. See Computer-based applications
Geographical sciences
Geological maps
Geomagnetism
Globes
Greek cartography. See Antiquity
Hebrew maps. See Religious cartography
History of cartography
Hydrography. See Charts; Navigation
Hypsometric maps. See Relief
Iconography. See Art and cartography
Indigenous cartography
Inscriptions
Islamic cartography
Islands. See Mythical places; Oceans (in Place index)
Jesuit cartography. See Religious cartography
Land reclamation
Landscape
Land use
Libraries and archives
Linguistic maps. See Thematic maps
Literature
Longitude. See Meridians
Loxodrome
Lunar cartography. See Celestial cartography
Mapmakers
Mappaemundi
Maps and government. See Political cartography
Maps and text
Marine cartography. See Charts; Navigation
Mathematics
Mental maps
Meridians
Meteorology. See Thematic maps
Methodology. See Computer-based applications; Theory and methodology
Middle Ages
Military mapping
Mining maps
Moral geography
Mural maps
Mythical places
Navigation
News-maps
Official mapping
Ordnance Survey
Overseas and colonial cartography
Palaeographical reconstruction
Panoramas
Perception. See Mental maps
Perspective
Philosophy. See Theory and methodology
Place-names
Playing cards
Political cartography
Population maps. See Thematic maps
Portolan charts. See Charts, portolan
Postal maps. See Thematic maps
Postcard maps. See Thematic maps
Prehistory
Printing. See Techniques of map production
Projections
Propaganda maps. See Political cartography
Publishing
Railway maps
Relief maps
Religious cartography
Renaissance
River ports
Road and route maps
Roman cartography. See Antiquity
Salt trade
Scale. See Mathematics
School cartography. See Education
Settlement
Signs
Space
Stamps, maps on
Surveying and surveys
Symbolism in maps
Symbols. See Signs
Techniques of map production
Textile maps
Thematic maps
Theory and methodology
Tithe maps
Topographical maps
Toponymy. See Place-names
Tourist maps
Town and city plans
Trade cards
Travel
Urban cartography. See Town and city plans
Views
Vinland map
Wall maps
Women
World maps. See Mappaemundi; World (in Place index)
Zoological maping. See Thematic maps

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
digital imaging ALLEN
Israel and Palestine GAVISH
Jamaica BUISSERET
Ordnance Survey mosaics BOARD

ANTHROPOMETRIC CARTOGRAPHY, see THEMATIC MAPS

ANTIQUE MAPS. BANNISTER, ROSS

ANTIQUITY. BÄÄRNHIELM, ROMER
Babylonian map of the world DELANO SMITH
classical world atlas project TALBERT
geographical sciences d'HOLLANDER
Greek and Roman geographers ROMER
* mapping BRODERSEN, JACOB, TAUB
Greek maps AUJAC, GAMBIN
* myth HOFMANN
Homeric geography WOLF, A
Mesopotamia HOROWITZ
navigation, early HANNAH
Roman roads and itineraries SALWAY
sea route to India and Ceylon ABEYDEERA
Tabula Peutingeriana SALWAY

ARAB CARTOGRAPHY, see ISLAMIC CARTOGRAPHY

ARCHITECTURAL MAPS. ALKHOVEN, STEPHENSON, W G
East Asian STEINHARDT
in early-modern Italian visual culture BURROUGHS
medieval Islamic religious orientation KING
military, of the Baroque city POLLAK
of ancient China CHEN

ARCHIVES, see LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES

ART AND CARTOGRAPHY. BRAVO, GLOVER, HOOK, NUTI
cartifacts (maps as design objects) POST
cartouches KALLENBACH, POTTER, S, WEBSTER
Dati's La sfera SIDER
decorative borders in American atlases FITCH
Dutch ZANDVLIET
* genre painting HELGERSON
iconography MISKOVIC
* compass rose and wind systems in portolan charts SIDER
* Europe in maps WINTLE
* frontispieces and titlepages SHIRLEY
* frontispieces relating to discovery of America MISKOVIC
* Last Judgment and the Hereford mappamundi GLOVER
* of Eco's Name of the Rose HAFT
* of the city FAGIOLO
map as a product of art HEIJDEN
mapmaker as artist GRIM
mappaemundi in monumental art KUPFER
semiotics of manuscript initial letters LICINI
three-dimensional visualization/representation techniques ALKHOVEN