Antique Maps & Prints: Auctions & News. Week of 3.6.06
Antique Maps Auctions For Week of March 6, 2006
A late addition to our listings for this week: Paulus Swaen Internet Map Auction is now online, and runs through March 14. More than 1400 antique maps are in the auction, and highlights can be seen here.
An auction, Printed Books & Maps, is scheduled at Dominic Winter in the UK, on Thursday, March 8. Unfortunately, repeated attempts to access their website have been unsuccessful, and as of this writing it appears that the Dominic Winter website is offline. Let's hope they rectify the problem soon.
Upcoming Events for Antique Maps & Prints
March 11, New York City. The New York Map Society meets in the classroom of the New York Public Library at 2:30 PM.
March 11, Richmond, VA. Ronald Grim, director of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, will discuss Roads, Canals, Railroads - Mapping Virginia's Antebellum Transportation Network for the Nathalie P. and Alan M. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography at the Library of Virginia, at 3 PM.
Current Exhibitions for Antique Maps & Prints
Through March 31, Boston, MA. Mapping California as an Island. At gallery outside Harvard Map Collection, at Harvard's Pusey Library. Information: (617) 495-2417.
Through May 14, New York City. Treasured Maps at the New York Public Library.
Through July 31, Portland, ME. The Changing Peninsula: Two Centuries of Portland Maps and City Views. Osher Map Library.
March 24-August 18, Boston, MA. Journeys of the Imagination, an exhibit of world maps and atlases. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library.
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A late addition to our listings for this week: Paulus Swaen Internet Map Auction is now online, and runs through March 14. More than 1400 antique maps are in the auction, and highlights can be seen here.
An auction, Printed Books & Maps, is scheduled at Dominic Winter in the UK, on Thursday, March 8. Unfortunately, repeated attempts to access their website have been unsuccessful, and as of this writing it appears that the Dominic Winter website is offline. Let's hope they rectify the problem soon.
Upcoming Events for Antique Maps & Prints
March 11, New York City. The New York Map Society meets in the classroom of the New York Public Library at 2:30 PM.
March 11, Richmond, VA. Ronald Grim, director of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, will discuss Roads, Canals, Railroads - Mapping Virginia's Antebellum Transportation Network for the Nathalie P. and Alan M. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography at the Library of Virginia, at 3 PM.
Current Exhibitions for Antique Maps & Prints
Through March 31, Boston, MA. Mapping California as an Island. At gallery outside Harvard Map Collection, at Harvard's Pusey Library. Information: (617) 495-2417.
Through May 14, New York City. Treasured Maps at the New York Public Library.
Through July 31, Portland, ME. The Changing Peninsula: Two Centuries of Portland Maps and City Views. Osher Map Library.
March 24-August 18, Boston, MA. Journeys of the Imagination, an exhibit of world maps and atlases. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library.
Technorati Tags: antiques, collectibles, vintage maps,
art, auctions, antique maps
posted by Neil Street at 8:26 AM
Thanks for a great blog. Have a look at Engraving-Review.com as it's a great site for finding out how antique engravings were made
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