Dr Marco van Egmond (1969), studied Human Geography at Utrecht University from 1988 until 1994, worked for three years as a journalist for local and regional newspapers, and in 1998 started with his research on the Dutch map publishing house of Covens & Mortier. This led to his doctoral thesis in 2005, and recently to the commercial edition in English. He published earlier about the cartography in Dutch parliamentary papers, and the Dutch cartography in the European Renaissance. From 1997 until 2003 he was a member of the editorial board of Caert-Thresoor, the Dutch journal on the history of cartography. Presently he works as curator of the Faculty of Geosciences map collection which is housed in the Utrecht University Library.