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1991; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03085699108592731

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Paul Ferguson, Andrew S. Cook, Mireille Pastoureau, C. I. M. O'Brien, Stephen A. Royle, Eugene Burden, Michael Bravo‐Dobrée, Anngret Simms, Jonathan Bennett, Monique Pelletier, Esther Carnice Puig, Marc Hameleers, Paul Gallez, Corradino Astengo,

Geographic Information Systems Studies

’Terra Australis’ to Australia. Edited by Glyndwr Williams and Alan Frost. Melbourne: Oxford University Press (in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities), 1988. ISBN 0 19 554908 2. Pp. xviii, 242, illus. STG£50.00 (cloth). The Napoleonic Survey of Egypt: A masterpiece of cartographic compilation and early nineteenth‐century fieldwork. By Anne Godlewska. Cartographica 25, numbers 1 & 2 (Monograph 38–39). University of Toronto Press, 1988. ISBN 0 919870 39 2. Pp. xiii, 171, illus. CDN$19.00 (paper). [University of Toronto Press, Journals Dept., 5201 Dufferin Street, Downsview M3H 5TB.] Historical development of photogrammetric methods and instruments. By Teodor J. Blachut and Rudolf Burkhardt. Falls Church, VA: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 1989. ISBN 0 944426 11 5. Pp. ix, 159, illus. US$65.00 (paper). [American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 210 Little Falls Street, Falls Church, VA 22046.] Catalogue of the Memoirs of the Survey of India, 1773–1866. [Compiled by Sarvashree S. R. Batheja and Zile Singh]. New Delhi: National Archives of India, 1989. Pp. vi, 183. Rs38.00 (paper). [National Archives of India, Janpath, New Delhi 11001.] Togail Tir Marking Time: the map of the Western Isles. Edited by Finlay Macleod. Stornoway: Acair Ltd. and An Lanntair Gallery, 1989. ISBN 0 86152 842 5. Pp. [vi], 160, illus. STGE10.95 (paper). [Acair, 7 James Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.] County atlases of the British Isles published after 1703. Volume II, Atlases published 1743–1763 and their subsequent editions. A bibliography compiled by Donald Hodson. Tewin, Herts.: Tewin Press, 1989. ISBN 0 9509149 1 6. Pp. xvi, 193, 12 illus. STG£30.00 (cloth). [Tewin Press, 16 Hertford Road, Tewin, Welwyn, Herts AL6 0JY.] Unveiling the Arctic. Edited by Louis Rey, Claudette Reed Upton and Marvin Falk. Monaco: Comité Arctique International; Calgary, Arctic Institute of North America; and Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 1984. ISBN 0 919034 09 8. Also published as Arctic, 37 no. 4 (1984). Pp. [8], viii, 321–613, illus. [University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, Alaska 99701, and E. J. Brill Publishers, Oude Rijn 33a, Leiden.] Die ältesten Stadtpläne Berlins, 1652 bis 1757. By Günther Schulz. Weinheim: Acta Humaniora/VCH, 1986. ISBN 3 527 17564 4. Pp. 200, illus, col. plates. [VCH Verlagsgesellscaft mbH, D‐6940 Weinheim.] From plane to spheroid: determining the figure of the earth from 3000 BC to the eighteenth century Lapland and Peruvian Survey Expeditions. By James R. Smith. Rancho Cordova, Ca.: Landmark Enterprises, 1986. ISBN 0 910845 29 8. Pp. 219, 32 plates. STGE26.50. [Landmark Enterprises, PO Box 160502, Sacramento, CA 95670, or Surveyors Publications, Norden House, Basing View, Basing‐stoke, Hants RG21 2HN.] Le Huguenot et le Sauvage. By Frank Lestringant. Paris: Aux amateurs de livres, 1990. Pp. xiv, 381. La Cola del Dragón: América del sur en los mapas antiguos, medievales y renacentistas [= The Dragon's Tail: South America on maps from antiquity, middle ages and renaissance]. By Paul Gallez. Bahía Blanca, Argentina: Institutio Patagónico, 1990. Pp. 184, 53 illus. [Instituto Patagónico, Calle Perú 339, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina.] Lucas Jansz. Waghenaer van Enckhuysen: De maritieme car‐tografie in de Nederlanden in de zestiende en het begin van de zeventiende eeuw [= Lucas Jansz, Waghenaer from Enckhuysen: marine cartography in the Netherlands in the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries]. By ‘Vrienden van het Zuiderzeemuseum’. Enhuizen: Vrienden van het Zuiderzeemuseum, 1984. Pp. 136, illus. DFL. 25. Precedentes cartográfico del descubrimiento de América. Mexico: Organizatión de Estados Americanos (OAS) and Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia (PAIGH), 1989. Pp. 120, 26 illus. Piante di Popoli e strada—Capitani di Parte Guelfa, 1580–1595. Archivo di Stato di Firenze. A cura di Giuseppe Pan‐sini e Leonardo Rombai. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1989. Pp. 652, 574 illus. 2 vols. L980.000 [Leo S. Olschki, Casella postale 66, 50100 Firenze.]