Volume 78, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi

Published in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (Vol. 78, No. 1, 2026)

This article provides a case study of how a national mapping agency, the Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo), transitioned from analogue to digital mapmaking between 1965 and 2008. Trans...

This article examines the making of Alexander Keith Johnston’s Physical Atlas: the 1848 first edition, the second and enlarged 1856 edition, and the intermediate reduced edition of 1850. In examini...

In this article, I argue that a late seventeenth-century Spanish derrotero—believed to have been seized by English buccaneers in the Pacific—is instead an English-made copy. My proposed re-attribut...

The ‘Descripción de México’ by physician Diego de Cisneros is the oldest known map printed in the Americas. Engraved in New Spain on copper by Flemish artist Samuel Stradanus, it was included in Ci...

The Archives nationales in Paris holds an anonymous, undated manuscript map, registered as Carte d'une partie de la côte de Cochinchine de Hué à Nha-Trang. Importantly, it is the only known contemp...

Portolan charts of the Mediterranean never depicted political boundaries as lines, but they sometimes used flags to indicate the possession of selected cities. Historians have observed that these e...

This essay considers the maps in seventeenth-century English and Dutch editions of John Selden’s legal treatise Mare clausum (1635). It establishes the visuality of legal arguments within the conte...

Volume 77, Issue 2 of Imago Mundi

Since long before the 2023 wildfires, Lahaina has been a battleground for Kānaka Maoli who are winning their ancestral lands back in settler courts of law. Kanaka Maoli leader Keʻeaumoku Kapu has w...

This article illustrates the intertwined nature of European and African mapping practices in the construction of Captain Louis-Gustave Binger’s 1890 Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée par le Pa...

This article broadly surveys core concepts and examples of Indigenous mapping systems that are distinct from, and often challenge, Western notions of cartography. While both traditions share some c...

Published in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2025)

Volume 77, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi

Volume 77, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi