Antique Maps & Prints News -- May 1, 2007

Antique Maps & Antique Prints Upcoming Events

May 8, Cambridge, England. Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography. 5:30 PM, Emmanuel College, St. Andrew's Street, Gardner Room. Maps and Manuscript Transmission in Sixteenth Century England and Ireland. Contact Exhibitions Schedule.

May 12, New York. 2:30 PM. New York Map Society Meeting. Is the Lenox Globe Older than the 1507 Waldseemüller Map? New York Public Library, 5th Avenue & 42nd Street. A discussion of the Lenox Globe, thought to be one of the oldest globes to show the New World, yet one which has received insufficient attention to date. Peter Dickson will lead the discussion.

May 17, London. At the Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square, London. 5:00 p.m. Maps and Society, Sixteenth Series. Jill Shefrin (Trinity College, University of Toronto) Nursery Instruction: Cartographical Novelties for Georgian and Victorian Children.

May 18, Washington D.C. The Washington Map Society, holds its Annual Dinner at Fort McNair Officer's Club. William A. Stanley, president of the Society and Chief Historian (emeritus) National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), presents U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey - 200 Years of Surveying and Mapping. Mr. Stanley's lecture traces the charting of the U.S. from 1807 to the present. For more information, call 202-289-4545 or email to Chas Langelan.

Antique Maps & Prints Exhibitions

For a list of upcoming exhibitions, please visit our antique maps & prints exhibitions page.


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

May 8-9, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Sturbridge Book & Ephemera Fair. The Sturbridge Host Hotel, 366 Main Street (Rt. 20) Sturbridge, MA For information: 631-261-4590.

May 31 - June 1, New York. West Side Loft Book & Ephemera Fair. Arts Building, 336 West 37th Street 6th floor. Thursday 4:00 PM - 10:00 PM; Friday 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM.

June 10, Portland, Maine. Portland Book, Print & Paper Show, Hilton by the Bay, 88 Spring Street Portland , ME 04101

Auction Calendar

May 3, London. Christies. Travel & Natural History.

Through May 9, Online. Old World Auctions. Online auction of Antique Maps, Atlases, and Decorative Graphics.

May 10, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Travel & Exploration; Natural History; Sporting Books; Maps & Atlases.

May 10, London. Sotheby's. Natural History, Travel, Atlases, & Maps.

May 10, London. Bloomsbury Auctions. Travel Books.

May 15, Oxford. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps, Part 2.

May 16, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps, & Ephemera.

May 23, London. Bonhams. Exploration, Travel, & Topographical Pictures.

May 24, New York. Swann Galleries. The Polar Library of Dr. John M. Levinson.


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