Peter Barber, on Mercator and mapping Britain, Cheri Brooks, on Michel Peissel, Ian McKay, on map auctions; others Alec McEwen on border negotiations

• MERCATOR'S WORLD, The Magazine of Maps, Exploration, and Discovery, Volume 3, Number 4, 1998, Stalin and the Map That Divided Poland; Maps and Border Negotiation; Gregg LeFevre's map sculptures