THE Royal Geographical Society has had placed at its disposal a fund for the reproduction of a series of selected manuscript maps, and the first issue of this series is the reproduction of the ...

The person who made this document — the first so-called portolan chart, from the Italian word portolano, meaning “a collection of sailing directions” — spawned a new era of mapmaking and oceanic ...

The Harvard Map Collection’s exhibit on ink-drawn-maps will come to a close next week, ending a display of antique maps that has been open to the public in the Pusey Library since May. The “Manuscript ...