Antique Maps & Antique Prints News, June 5, 2009

Antique Map & Print Meetings

June 9, Boston, MA. 5:30 pm. The Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, is the setting for a meeting of the Boston Map Society. Professor Anne Knowles, associate professor of Geography, Middlebury College, presents Placing History: How GIS is Changing the Practice of Historical Scholarship. For more information, please contact Jeremy Pool.

June 9, Westminster, Colorado. 5:30 pm. The Rocky Mountain Map Society will hold a "Show and Tell" curiosities meeting for map society members. You are invited to bring your cartographic curiosities to the meeting. Refreshments will be served.

June 19, Topsfield, MA. 7:30 pm. Gould Barn, Howlett Street. Antique map collector Kevin O'Connor will talk on Early Maps of New England and show examples from his collection. Refreshments served. For more information, call Vincent Guerra, 978-887-3412.

June 20, San Francisco. 9:00 am. A full day meeting of the California Map Society, in conjunction with the California Historical Society. The agenda includes a presentation of historical mapping of San Francisco's water resources. Also on tap, a presentation by Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Head Librarian of Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections, Stanford University, who will discuss Stanford's growing map collections.

June 22-26, Charlottesville, Virginia. A course in the history, collection, and use of maps, taught through the University of Virginia's Rare Book School. The course will be taught by Alice Hudson, chief map librarian of the New York Public Library.

July 11, New York City. 2:30 pm. The New York Map Society holds its annual summer social. Details to follow. Visit the society website for news.


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

June 12-13, Portland, OR. Rose City Used Book Fair. 5626 NE Alameda. For information, call 503-249-0344.

June 14, Nashua, NH. New Hampshire Works on Paper. Nashua Holiday Inn, 9 Northeastern Blvd. For information call 603-509-2639.

June 27, Cooperstown, NY. Cooperstown Antiquarian Book Fair. Clark Sports Center, Susquehanna Avenue. For information call 607-638-9962.

July 11, Stockbridge, MA. Stockbridge Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair. Town Hall, 50 Main Street. For information, call 413-528-2327.


Auction Calendar

June 11, New York. Swann Galleries. Maps & Atlases, Natural History, Historical Prints, and Ephemera.

June 17, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

June 19, New York. Sothebys. The Graham Arader Sale.

June 24, New York. Christies. Important Botanical Books.

June 24, New York. Christies. Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Americana.

June 24, Oxford. Bonhams. Printed Books and Maps.

July 9, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions


Through June 12, Cambridge, MA. Pusey Hall, at Harvard College Library. Taking the Measure of Rhode Island: A Cartographic Tour. The exhibit displays the history of the mapping of the State of Rhode Island, from the 17th century through the early 20th century. Many different types of map are on display, including state and city atlases; state maps; town plans; nautical charts; surveys; road maps, and more. For more information, call 617-495-2417.

Through August 15, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. An exhibition, presented by Louisiana State University Special Collections, entitled Mariners, Meridians and Monsters: Exploring the History of Maps in Fact and Fiction. A look at the various types of maps that have been created, from from antiquity to the present day.

Through August 31, Washington, Texas. An exhibition entitled Texas Transformed: Early Maps of Texas, at Star of the Republic Museum. Features many important antique maps of Texas. For more information, call 936-878-2461.

Through September 7, St. Paul, Minnesota. 345 West Kellogg Blvd. The Minnesota Historical Society presents Minnesota on the Map, an exhibition featuring 100 of its most prized antique maps from its extensive collection of historical maps and atlases.

Through September 8, Ithaca, NY. Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collection, Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University. An exhibition entitled Darwin's Maps: A Natural Selection of Maps Darwin Used, Drew, Consulted, or Inspired. For more information call 607-255-7557.

Through September 27, New York. The Museum of the City of New York is the setting for an exhibit entitled Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson. The exhibition appears on the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration of the New World and of New York Harbor. The exhibition seeks to bring into focus the cultural, economic, and ideological aspects of Hudson's voyage.

Through October 23, Middlebury, Vermont. An exhibition entitled Mapping Champlain's New World, at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History. The show includes important antique and rare maps of the Lake Champlain and Vermont regions.

Through January 1, 2010, Mystic, Connecticut. An exhibition at Mystic Seaport entitled Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark, The Quivira Collection. A traveling exhibit, on loan from a private collection, including over 30 important antique maps, books, and illustrations covering the period from 1550-1800.

Through March 31, 2010, Mason, Texas. Rare Maps of America, an exhibition staged by the Mason Square Museum, features important antique maps dating back to the 16th century. The focus is on early maps of Texas.

Through May 9, 2010. Texas. Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps. A major travelling exhibition of five hundred years of maps of Texas.

Permanent Exhibit, Jacksonville, Florida. Jacksonville Public Library, 303 N. Laura Street. The Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, featuring antique maps of Florida and beyond.


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Antique Maps & Antique Prints News, May 3, 2009

Antique Map & Print Meetings

May 9, Golden, CO. 12:15 pm. The American Mountaineering Museum is the site of a special meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society, which is currently running an exhibit titled On High: The Cartography of Topography. Join the society for lunch, following the exhibit, at the nearby Golden Hotel.

May 9, New York City. 2:30 pm, 170 Central Park West. The New York Map Society heads uptown for a visit to the New York Historical Society. The trip will focus on some of the rare maps in the possession of the Historical Society. NYHS librarian Jean Ashton hosts the event. Space is limited, so please rsvp to Heather Kinsinger or call 914-498-9797.

May 13, Washington, DC. 6:30 PM, Jones Day, 51 Louisiana Ave, NW. Washington Map Society holds its annual meeting, highlighted by a presentation by Dr. Don McGuirk entitled Cartographic Myths of North America. Mismappings by Misunderstandings, Misinterpretations, and Misrepresentations; but not by Mistakes. For more information, email Peter Porazzo.

May 14, London. 5:00 PM. Maps and Society Eighteenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. This month's presentation, by Dr Alastair Pearson (Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth) is titled The greatest map ever published: The American Geographical Society and the Map of Hispanic America at 1:1 Million Scale, 1922-1945. Free admission, with refreshments following the lecture. More info, call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

May 14-15, Washington, DC. An international symposium titled Exploring Waldseemüller's World will be held in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress. The symposium is free, and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information, email John Hessler, or call 202-707-7223.

May 19, Cambridge, England. 5.30 pm, Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography 2008-2009. This year's seminar, presented by Brian Campbell, Professor of Roman History, Queens University, Belfast, is entitled Beautiful maps and attractive fields: a surveyor's view of ancient Italy. For more information, contact Sarah Bendell.

May 28-30, Los Angeles. The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA, 302 Royce Hall. The CMRS and the Ahmanson Foundation are co-sponsors of a conference entitled Mapping Medieval Geographies: Cartography and Geographical thought in the Latin West and Beyond, 300-1600. For more information, call 310-825-1880.


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

May 17, Ann Arbor, MI. 30th Annual Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair, Michigan Union Ballroom, 530 South State Street. For more information, call 734-995-1891.

May 17, Concord, NH. New Hampshire Works on Paper, Concord Holiday Inn, 172 North Main Street. For information call 603-509-2639.

May 30 - 31, Seattle. Seattle Book and Paper Show, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, East Denny Way. For information, call 206-323-3999.

June 12-13, Portland, OR. Rose City Used Book Fair. 5626 NE Alameda. For information, call 503-249-0344.

June 27, Cooperstown, NY. Cooperstown Antiquarian Book Fair. Clark Sports Center, Susquehanna Avenue. For information call 607-638-9962.


Auction Calendar

May 1, Online. Old World Auctions. Antique Maps, Atlases, and Decorative Graphics. Online auction.

May 7, London. Sothebys. Natural History, Travel, Atlases, and Maps.

May 13, Gloucestershire. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

May 14, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Travel & Exploration, Maps.

May 8 - 16, Online. Aspire Auctions. Sections include Books, Maps, & Ephemera, and Works on Paper.

May 20, London. Christies. Vintage Posters.

June 3, London. Christies. Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

Through May 10, 2009. Winchester, VA. Jed Hotchkiss - Shenandoah Valley Mapmaker. Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 901 Amherst Street. An exhibition featuring maps by a native son, noted mapmaker Jed Hotchkiss, whose remarkable maps are credited with helping Stonewall Jackson achieve notable victories during the Civil War. Hotchkiss served as an engineer in the Confederate Army of North Virginia.

Through May 23, 2009. Richmond, VA. From Williamsburg to Wills Creek: The Fry-Jefferson Map. An exhibition at the Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street.

Through May 31, Golden, Colorado. On High: The Cartography of Topography. An exhibition of rare maps of world mountains and mountain regions, at the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum. This unusual exhibition looks at how mountainous regions have been mapped throughout history. Some important maps are included in the exhibition, including Zebulon Pike's map of the Southwest and a map from the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Through May, 2009. Georgetown, Texas. Charting History: Maps from the Don Martin Collection. Displaying maps from the 17th through the 19th centuries, at the Williamson Museum.

Through June 12, Cambridge, MA. Pusey Hall, at Harvard College Library. Taking the Measure of Rhode Island: A Cartographic Tour. The exhibit displays the history of the mapping of the State of Rhode Island, from the 17th century through the early 20th century. Many different types of map are on display, including state and city atlases; state maps; town plans; nautical charts; surveys; road maps, and more. For more information, call 617-495-2417.

Through September 7, St. Paul, Minnesota. 345 West Kellogg Blvd. The Minnesota Historical Society presents Minnesota on the Map, an exhibition featuring 100 of its most prized antique maps from its extensive collection of historical maps and atlases.

Through September 8, Ithaca, NY. Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collection, Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University. An exhibition entitled Darwin's Maps: A Natural Selection of Maps Darwin Used, Drew, Consulted, or Inspired. For more information call 607-255-7557.

Through May 9, 2010. Texas. Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps. A major travelling exhibition of five hundred years of maps of Texas.


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Antique Maps & Antique Prints News, April 6, 2009

Antique Map & Print Meetings

April 8, Washington, DC. 12:00 Noon. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division Reading Room, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Thoreau as mapmaker? Groundbreaking research by John Hessler, Senior Reference Librarian, of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, demonstrates that Thoreau was indeed a cartographer, and he expounds on this theme in his lecture entitled Building, Dwelling, Thinking: A Study of the Cartographic Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau in the Library of Congress. For more information, email John Hessler.

April 21, 28, & May 5, Boston. 5:30 pm. Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street. A series of three lectures, presented by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, entitled A New England Tradition of Map Collecting - Cartographic Treasures from the Boston Public Library. This landmark series reveals important examples of antique maps and antique atlases from the library's extensive cartographic collection. For specific lecture titles, email Ronald E. Grim, curator of maps at the center, or call 617-859-2375.

April 23, London. 5:00 PM. Maps and Society Eighteenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. This month's presentation, by Eva Stamoulou, (University of Manchester Art History and Visual Studies Department) is titled Portraying the Mediterranean: Sixteenth-century Books of Islands (Isolarii) and the Venetian Maritime Empire. Free admission, with refreshments following the lecture. More info, call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

April 23, Washington, DC. 7:00 PM, Geography and Map Division, Madison Bldg., Level B, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Avenue. Washington Map Society director Chas Langelan presents a lecture on the surveying of the boundary line that came to be known as the Mason and Dixon line. The survey, originally scheduled to last 18 months, took 6 years to complete. The annual business meeting of the Washington Map Society precedes the lecture. For more information, email Dennis Gurtz, or call 301-926-1743.

April 25, Deerfield, MA. A one day forum at Historic Deerfield entitled Cartographic Collections: Investigating and Collecting Antique Maps. For more information call 413 775-7179.

April 28, Milwaukee, WI. 6:00 pm. The American Geographical Society Library presents Yankee Surveyors in Imperial Waters: The Perry Expedition to Japan, a lecture by John H. Schroeder, Professor History at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. A reception precedes the lecture at 5:00 pm. Details are at the AGS website.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

April 10-11, Akron, Ohio. Akron Antiquarian Book Fair. John S. Knight Convention Center.
For information call: 330-865-5831.

April 19, Burlington, VT. Vermont Antiquarian Spring Book & Ephemera Fair. Sheraton Hotel, 870 Williston Road. For information call: 802-527-7243.

May 2, Braintree, MA. Greater Boston Book and Ephemera Fair, Braintree Sheraton, 37 Forbes Road. For information call 603-509-2639.

May 17, Ann Arbor, MI. 30th Annual Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair, Michigan Union Ballroom, 530 South State Street. For more information, call 734-995-1891.

May 17, Concord, NH. New Hampshire Works on Paper, Concord Holiday Inn, 172 North Main Street. For information call 603-509-2639.

May 30 - 31, Seattle. Seattle Book and Paper Show, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, East Denny Way. For information, call 206-323-3999.


Auction Calendar

April 7, Oxford, England. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps.

April 8, Gloucestershire. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

April 16, Falls Church, Virginia. Waverly Auctions. Maps and Atlases with Manuscripts.

April 21, New York. Swann Galleries. Early Printed Books.

May 1, Online. Old World Auctions. Antique Maps, Atlases, and Decorative Graphics. Online auction.

May 7, London. Sothebys. Natural History, Travel, Atlases, and Maps.

May 14, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Travel & Exploration, Maps.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

Through April 26, 2009. The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian. A major exhibition focusing on rarely-seen, important, oversized prints produced during the Renaissance.

Through April 30, Newburgh, NY. Educational Turkish Maps. Turkey, particularly via the mapping of Kermal Reis and Piri Reis, established a tradition of mapping excellence dating back to the discovery of the New World. Maps in this exhibition, at the Karpeles Manuscript Library, are primarily hand-drawn maps from Turkish textbooks.

Through May 10, 2009. Winchester, VA. Jed Hotchkiss - Shenandoah Valley Mapmaker. Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 901 Amherst Street. An exhibition featuring maps by a native son, noted mapmaker Jed Hotchkiss, whose remarkable maps are credited with helping Stonewall Jackson achieve notable victories during the Civil War. Hotchkiss served as an engineer in the Confederate Army of North Virginia.

Through May 23, 2009. Richmond, VA. From Williamsburg to Wills Creek: The Fry-Jefferson Map. An exhibition at the Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street.

Through May 31, Golden, Colorado. On High: The Cartography of Topography. An exhibition of rare maps of world mountains and mountain regions, at the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum. This unusual exhibition looks at how mountainous regions have been mapped throughout history. Some important maps are included in the exhibition, including Zebulon Pike's map of the Southwest and a map from the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Through May, 2009. Georgetown, Texas. Charting History: Maps from the Don Martin Collection. Displaying maps from the 17th through the 19th centuries, at the Williamson Museum.

Through June 12, Cambridge, MA. Pusey Hall, at Harvard College Library. Taking the Measure of Rhode Island: A Cartographic Tour. The exhibit displays the history of the mapping of the State of Rhode Island, from the 17th century through the early 20th century. Many different types of map are on display, including state and city atlases; state maps; town plans; nautical charts; surveys; road maps, and more. For more information, call 617-495-2417.

Through May 9, 2010. Texas. Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps. A major travelling exhibition of five hundred years of maps of Texas.









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Antique Maps & Antique Prints News, March 15, 2009

Antique Map & Print Meetings

March 16-17, Oxford. A two-day, interdisciplinary conference looks at medieval maps and plans of the city of Jerusalem. Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West brings together a roster of distinguished scholars and speakers who will focus on the role of imagination in the early mapping of the city. You must be pre-registered to attend. Details can be found on the webpage.

March 19, Chicago. 5:30 PM. The Chicago Map Society meets in the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street. This month's lecture topic is Beyond the Nation's Edge: Mapping the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Professor Sam Truett of the University of New Mexico History Department examines how national and corporate interests tried, through the manipulation of maps, to control the U.S. - Mexican border around the end of the 19th century.

March 21, Richmond, Virginia. The 5th Annual Alan M. and Natalie P. Voorhees Lecture Series, sponsored by the University of Virginia Library. This year, Luke Vavra and Marianne McKee will deliver a joint lecture concerning Virginia's first official state map. The event will also include a display of antique maps from the library's holdings. For details, call 804-692-3592 or email Jan Hathcock.

March 26, Edinburgh. Scottish historian Graeme Cruickshank presents Mapping Mid-19th Century Edinburgh. 7:00 PM, National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge Building, Edinburgh. For reservations, call 0131-623-4675.

March 26, London. 5:00 PM. Maps and Society Eighteenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. This month's presentation, by Dr. Hanna Vorholt, (A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at The Warburg Institute) is titled Provenance and Dissemination of Medieval Maps of Jerusalem: Constructing and Deconstructing a Stemma. Free admission, with refreshments following the lecture. More info, call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

March 26, Washington, DC. 7:00 PM, Geography and Map Division, Madison Bldg., Level B, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Avenue. One of the most popular events in the Washington Map Society calendar: the members' Show & Tell. Bring an antique map or two to discuss.

April 3-5, San Antonio, TX. The Texas Map Society, in conjunction with the University of Texas at San Antonio, presents a three-day Spring Meeting highlighted by a symposium entitled Spanish Colonial Mapping and Their Map Makers. As part of this three- day event, the society will also be presenting tours, events, and other activities to make this meeting a memorable one. For full details, and to reserve your place, contact Kit Goodwin.

April 4, New York. 2:30 PM, New York Public Library. Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street. Meeting of the New York Map Society. Society member Jim Sykes will give an illustrated presentation entitled Globes in Works of Art.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

March 28-29, Litchfield, Connecticut. Litchfield Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair. Litchfield Community Center, Route 202. For information, call 413-528-2327.

March 28-29, Long Island, N.Y. Long Island Book and Ephemera Fair. Garden City Field House, Stewart Avenue, Garden City, LI. For information call 603-509-2639.

March 29, Lansing, MI. Michigan Antiquarian Book and Paper Show. Lansing Center, 333 East Michigan Avenue. For information call 517-332-0112.

April 3-4, Albuquerque, N.M. Albuquerque Antiquarian Book Fair. University of New Mexico Conference Center, 1634 University Blvd. For information call 505-291-9653.

April 4, York, Pennsylvania. York Book & Paper Fair. 'Old Main,' York Expo Center, 343 West Market Street. For more info, Tel. 717-846-2866.

April 3-5, New York. The 49th Annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair. Park Avenue Armory, Park Ave. at 67th Street. For more information, call 212-777-5218.

April 10-11, Akron, Ohio. Akron Antiquarian Book Fair. John S. Knight Convention Center.
For information call: 330-865-5831.

April 19, Burlington, VT. Vermont Antiquarian Spring Book & Ephemera Fair. Sheraton Hotel, 870 Williston Road. For information call: 802-527-7243.


Auction Calendar

March 26, New York. Swann Galleries. Printed and Manuscript Americana.

March 26, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Hawaiiana, Travel & Exploration, Natural History.

April 4, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. Important Books & Manuscripts.

April 7, Oxford, England. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps.

April 8, Gloucestershire. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

April 16, Falls Church, Virginia. Waverly Auctions. Maps and Atlases with Manuscripts.

April 21, New York. Swann Galleries. Early Printed Books.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

Through March 22, 2009. Brisbane, Australia. Mapping the Great South Land: From Terra Incognita to New Holland and Australia, at the State Library of Queensland, Cultural Centre, Stanley Place. An exhibition of rare map, globes, and books. The library houses an impressive collection of antique maps.

Through April 26, 2009. The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian. A major exhibition focusing on rarely-seen, important, oversized prints produced during the Renaissance.

Through April 30, Newburgh, NY. Educational Turkish Maps. Turkey, particularly via the mapping of Kermal Reis and Piri Reis, established a tradition of mapping excellence dating back to the discovery of the New World. Maps in this exhibition, at the Karpeles Manuscript Library, are primarily hand-drawn maps from Turkish textbooks.

Through May 10, 2009. Winchester, VA. Jed Hotchkiss - Shenandoah Valley Mapmaker. Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 901 Amherst Street. An exhibition featuring maps by a native son, noted mapmaker Jed Hotchkiss, whose remarkable maps are credited with helping Stonewall Jackson achieve notable victories during the Civil War. Hotchkiss served as an engineer in the Confederate Army of North Virginia.

Through May 23, 2009. Richmond, VA. From Williamsburg to Wills Creek: The Fry-Jefferson Map. An exhibition at the Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street.

Through May 31, Golden, Colorado. On High: The Cartography of Topography. An exhibition of rare maps of world mountains and mountain regions, at the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum. This unusual exhibition looks at how mountainous regions have been mapped throughout history. Some important maps are included in the exhibition, including Zebulon Pike's map of the Southwest and a map from the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Through May, 2009. Georgetown, Texas. Charting History: Maps from the Don Martin Collection. Displaying maps from the 17th through the 19th centuries, at the Williamson Museum.

Through May 9, 2010. Texas. Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps. A major travelling exhibition of five hundred years of maps of Texas.



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Antique Maps & Antique Prints News, February 24, 2009

Antique Map & Print Meetings

March 5, Oxford. 5:00 PM. Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment, South Parks Road. 16th Annual Series of the Oxford Series in Cartography Surekha Davies of the Warburg Institute discussing Maps and the Construction of the Brazilian Cannibal in the Sixteenth Century: Martin Waldseemüller, Pierre Desceliers and Jean de Léry. Reservations required, please email Nick Millea, or call 01865 287119.

March 12, London. 5:00 PM. Maps and Society Eighteenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. This month's presentation, by Stéphane Blond (Department of History, University of Evry-Val d'Essonne) is titled The Trudaine Road Maps, a Masterpiece in French Enlightenment Cartography. Free admission, with refreshments following the lecture. More info, call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

March 14, New York. 2:30 pm, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street. The New York Map Society meets in the Celeste Bartos Education Center. This month, guest speaker Miklos Pinther, former chief cartographer at the United Nations, will deliver a presentation about maps on stamps. The fascinating discipline of cartophilately offers unusual challenges because of the restricted space in which to work. Miniature maps taken to the extreme.

March 16-17, Oxford. A two-day, interdisciplinary conference looks at medieval maps and plans of the city of Jerusalem. Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West brings together a roster of distinguished scholars and speakers who will focus on the role of imagination in the early mapping of the city. You must be pre-registered to attend. Details can be found on the webpage.

March 19, Chicago. 5:30 PM. The Chicago Map Society meets in the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street. This month's lecture topic is Beyond the Nation's Edge: Mapping the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Professor Sam Truett of the University of New Mexico History Department examines how national and corporate interests tried, through the manipulation of maps, to control the U.S. - Mexican border around the end of the 19th century.

March 21, Richmond, Virginia. The 5th Annual Alan M. and Natalie P. Voorhees Lecture Series, sponsored by the University of Virginia Library. This year, Luke Vavra and Marianne McKee will deliver a joint lecture concerning Virginia's first official state map. The event will also include a display of antique maps from the library's holdings. For details, call 804-692-3592 or email Jan Hathcock.


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

March 6-7, Arlington, VA. The Washington Antiquarian Bookfair. Rare books, maps, prints, and more, now in its 34th year. Holiday Inn, 1900 North Fort Myer Drive, Arlington.

March 13-15, North Petersburg, Florida. The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. Coliseum, 535 Fourth Avenue. For info call 727-234-7759.

March 28-29, Litchfield, Connecticut. Litchfield Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair. Litchfield Community Center, Route 202. For information, call 413-528-2327.

March 28-29, Long Island, N.Y. Long Island Book and Ephemera Fair. Garden City Field House, Stewart Avenue, Garden City, LI. For information call 603-509-2639.

March 29, Lansing, MI. Michigan Antiquarian Book and Paper Show. Lansing Center, 333 East Michigan Avenue. For information call 517-332-0112.

April 3-4, Albuquerque, N.M. Albuquerque Antiquarian Book Fair. University of New Mexico Conference Center, 1634 University Blvd. For information call 505-291-9653.

April 4, York, Pennsylvania. York Book & Paper Fair. 'Old Main,' York Expo Center, 343 West Market Street. For more info, Tel. 717-846-2866.

April 3-5, New York. The 49th Annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair. Park Avenue Armory, Park Ave. at 67th Street. For more information, call 212-777-5218.


Auction Calendar

February 26, New York. Swann Galleries. Printed and Manuscript African Americana.

March 4, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books and Maps.

March 26, New York. Swann Galleries. Printed and Manuscript Americana.

March 26, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Hawaiiana, Travel & Exploration, Natural History.

April 16, Falls Church, Virginia. Waverly Auctions. Maps and Atlases with Manuscripts.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

Through March 22, 2009. Brisbane, Australia. Mapping the Great South Land: From Terra Incognita to New Holland and Australia, at the State Library of Queensland, Cultural Centre, Stanley Place. An exhibition of rare map, globes, and books. The library houses an impressive collection of antique maps.

Through April 30, Newburgh, NY. Educational Turkish Maps. Turkey, particularly via the mapping of Kermal Reis and Piri Reis, established a tradition of mapping excellence dating back to the discovery of the New World. Maps in this exhibition, at the Karpeles Manuscript Library, are primarily hand-drawn maps from Turkish textbooks.

Through May 10, 2009. Winchester, VA. Jed Hotchkiss - Shenandoah Valley Mapmaker. Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 901 Amherst Street. An exhibition featuring maps by a native son, noted mapmaker Jed Hotchkiss, whose remarkable maps are credited with helping Stonewall Jackson achieve notable victories during the Civil War. Hotchkiss served as an engineer in the Confederate Army of North Virginia.

Through May 23, 2009. Richmond, VA. From Williamsburg to Wills Creek: The Fry-Jefferson Map. An exhibition at the Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street.

Through May 31, Golden, Colorado. On High: The Cartography of Topography. An exhibition of rare maps of world mountains and mountain regions, at the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum. This unusual exhibition looks at how mountainous regions have been mapped throughout history. Some important maps are included in the exhibition, including Zebulon Pike's map of the Southwest and a map from the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Through May, 2009. Georgetown, Texas. Charting History: Maps from the Don Martin Collection. Displaying maps from the 17th through the 19th centuries, at the Williamson Museum.

Through May 9, 2010. Texas. Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps. A major travelling exhibition of five hundred years of maps of Texas.



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Antique Maps & Prints News, January 31, 2009

Antique Map & Print Meetings

February 11, Chicago. 5:30 PM. The Chicago Map Society meets in the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street. In one of the most unusual topics I have come across, Daniel Block, Chicago State University, discusses Mapping Food, Supermarkets, and Community in Chicago.

February 17, Cambridge. 5:30 PM, Harrod's Room, Emmanuel College. Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography. Frances Willmoth of Jesus College, Cambridge will discuss Jonas Moore's Map of the Fens. For more information, email Sarah Bendall, or call 01223 330476.

February 17, London. 6:00 pm. Farmer's Club, 3 Whitehall Court. Collector's Evening hosted by the International Map Collectors' Society A popular event where attendees are invited to bring along a map, discuss it with others, and share opinions. The theme for this meeting, hosted by Francis Herbert, will be Scandinavian maps.

February 19, Washington, DC. 7:00 PM. National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue at 9th Street, NW. Meeting of The Washington Map Society. A presentation by Anthony P. Mullen of the Library of Congress entitled Jouhan de la Guilbaudiere, his "Buccaneer's Atlas", and the Beginning of French Commerce along the Pacific Coast of South America ca. 1700. Mullen's presentation investigates an unusual, late-17th century manuscript atlas prepared by Guilbaudiere. For more information, email Dennis Gurtz, or call 301-926-1743.

February 23, New York. 2:30 pm, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street. The New York Map Society meets in the Celeste Bartos Education Center. This month, map society member Les Trager presents The Hudson River Before Hudson. His presentation will include early 17th-Century maps showing that Hudson Bay had been explored and mapped well before Henry Hudson sailed into it.

February 26, London. 5:00 PM. Maps and Society Eighteenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. This month's presentation, by Sarah Tyacke, the Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellow at Royal Holloway University, is titled Understanding Robert Dudley's Arcano del Mare, 1646-8. Free admission, with refreshments following the lecture. More info, call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

March 5, Oxford. 5:00 PM. Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment, South Parks Road. 16th Annual Series of the Oxford Series in Cartography Surekha Davies of the Warburg Institute discussing Maps and the Construction of the Brazilian Cannibal in the Sixteenth Century: Martin Waldseemüller, Pierre Desceliers and Jean de Léry. Reservations required, please email Nick Millea, or call 01865 287119.


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

February 7-8, Miami. 101 West Flagler Street. Sixteenth Annual International Map Fair. One of the most significant antique map fairs on the annual calendar. Held at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Dealers from around the world will be showing at this fair.

February 13-15, San Francisco. ABAA 42nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair. Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th Street. Billed as the country's largest antiquarian book fair, with more than 240 rare book dealers in attendance. For information, 800-454-6401.

February 20-22, New York City. Greenwich Village Antiquarian Book Fair. P.S. Three, 490 Hudson Street. Visit website for details.

March 6-7, Arlington, VA. The Washington Antiquarian Bookfair. Rare books, maps, prints, and more, now in its 34th year. Holiday Inn, 1900 North Fort Myer Drive, Arlington.

March 13-15, North Petersburg, Florida. The Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. Coliseum, 535 Fourth Avenue. For info call 727-234-7759.

April 4, York, Pennsylvania. York Book & Paper Fair. 'Old Main,' York Expo Center, 343 West Market Street. For more info, Tel. 717-846-2866.


Auction Calendar

February 5, Internet. Old World Auctions Antique Maps, Atlases, and Decorative Graphics.

February 12, New York. Christies. Printed and Manuscript Americana.

February 19, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Rare Books and Manuscripts.

February 24, Oxford. Bonhams. Printed Book and Maps.

February 26, New York. Swann Galleries. Printed and Manuscript African Americana.

March 4, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books and Maps.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

Through March 22, 2009. Brisbane, Australia. Mapping the Great South Land: From Terra Incognita to New Holland and Australia, at the State Library of Queensland, Cultural Centre, Stanley Place. An exhibition of rare map, globes, and books. The library houses an impressive collection of antique maps.

Through April 30, Newburgh, NY. Educational Turkish Maps. Turkey, particularly via the mapping of Kermal Reis and Piri Reis, established a tradition of mapping excellence dating back to the discovery of the New World. Maps in this exhibition, at the Karpeles Manuscript Library, are primarily hand-drawn maps from Turkish textbooks.

Through May 10, 2009. Winchester, VA. Jed Hotchkiss - Shenandoah Valley Mapmaker. Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 901 Amherst Street. An exhibition featuring maps by a native son, noted mapmaker Jed Hotchkiss, whose remarkable maps are credited with helping Stonewall Jackson achieve notable victories during the Civil War. Hotchkiss served as an engineer in the Confederate Army of North Virginia.

Through May 23, 2009. Richmond, VA. From Williamsburg to Wills Creek: The Fry-Jefferson Map. An exhibition at the Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street.

Through May, 2009. Georgetown, Texas. Charting History: Maps from the Don Martin Collection. Displaying maps from the 17th through the 19th centuries, at the Williamson Museum.

Through May 9, 2010. Texas. Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps. A major travelling exhibition of five hundred years of maps of Texas.



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