For a brief biographical introduction, I am a physicist working primarily on quantum materials, but have always loved maps and I worked as a surveyor for a few years in the mid-1970s. I am originally from Western Canada but live and work in the USA in East Tennessee. I started collecting old maps around 1990 during a sabbatical year when I was a visiting Professor at the Clarendon Lab. at the University of Oxford. My collection is roughly threefold with subsets focusing on Canada, Denmark, and the Holy Land. I have many 16th/17th/18th century maps of types that are probably familiar to most IMCoS members. However what I propose to present at the meeting is something quite different. I recently acquired a copy of the first modern world atlas printed in Hebrew (the Jabotinsky - Perlman atlas c. 1925). This atlas is known for its maps of Palestine, but has some very interesting peculiarities in its depictions of other countries, including Canada, that I was unaware of before acquiring it.
