Antique Maps & Prints News, August 5, 2008

Antique Map & Print Meetings

August 14, Littleton, CO. Rocky Mountain Map Society members are invited to a hands-on demonstration of the lithographic process by Professor Jim Jereb, head of the printmaking department at Truman State University. The event takes place at the Littleton Historical Museum, 6028 S. Gallup Street, at 7 pm.

August 23, Chapel Hill, NC. An event for members of the William P. Cumming Map Society, at the Wilson Library of UNC. Guest speakers are Elizabeth Chenault, Co-manager, Rare Book Collection and Librarian for Public Services, and Nicholas Graham, North Carolina Maps Project Librarian in the Carolina Digital Library and Archives. Chenault will discuss maps found in "non-map" books, while Graham will provide an update on the North Carolina Maps Project. For more information, contact Jay Lester.

September 5-7, Budapest. The International Map Collector's Society meets in Budapest this weekend for a map symposium. For more information, contact Dr. Zsolt Torok.

September 13, New York. 2:30 pm, New York Public Library. Meeting of the New York Map Society, featuring Dr. Barbara Mundy, associate professor, Department of Art History and Music, Fordham University. Dr. Mundy's presentation is entitled Mapping the New World for The Spanish Kings: Indigenous Artists and the Creation of Colonial Cartography. For more information contact John Woram.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

August 9 - 10, Jacksonville, Arkansas. Arkansas Book & Paper Fair. Community Center, 105 Municipal Drive, Jacksonville. 501-336-9313.

August 9-10, San Francisco. Vintage Paper Fair. Golden Gate Park. 415-688-1536.

August 10, Woodstock, VT. Vermont Summer Bookfair 2008. Woodstock Union Area,
Route 4 West (next to the High School). For info contact Austin's Books.

August 16, Cincinnati, OH. Cincinnati Antiquarian Book Fair. 7777 Ted Gregory Lane, Montgomery. 513-321-7567.

August 23-24, Hartford, CT. PaperMania Plus. Hartford Civic Center. 860-563-9975.

August 23-24, Sacramento, CA. Antique Paper and Postcard Show. Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H Street, Sacramento. 916-971-1953.

August 24, Toledo, OH. Toledo Postcard and Paper Show. Lourdes College, Sylvania, OH. 517- 323-2188.

August 28-31, Baltimore, MD. Baltimore Summer Antiques Show and Book Fair. Baltimore Convention Center, 1 West Pratt Street, Baltimore. 561-822-5440.

August 29-30, Atlanta, GA. Atlanta Antiquarian Book Fair. Decatur Conference Center, 130 Clairmont Road, Atlanta. 404-713-1521.


Auction Calendar

August 12, Bolton, MA. Skinner Auctions. Discovery Auction. Includes a number of Currier & Ives prints.

August 27, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps, Historical Documents & Ephemera.

August 28, Edinburgh, Scotland. Bonhams. The Scottish Sale: Books, Maps, & Manuscripts.

September 3, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. British Topographical Books & Maps, Vintage Photography.

September 24, Stockholm, Sweden. Stockholm Auction House. Rare Atlases, Maps and Plate Books from Ericsberg Castle. Viewing is September 20-23.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

Charlottesville, VA. Through January 17, 2009. On The Map: The Seymour I. Schwartz Collection of North American Maps, 1500-1800. At the main gallery, Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture, University of Virginia.


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Antique Maps and Prints News June 27, 2008

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

July 5, Lenox, Massachusetts. Lenox Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. Lenox Community Center, 65 Walker Street, Lenox. 413-528-2327.

July 6, Portland, Maine. Southern Maine Antique Paper Show. Holiday Inn West, 81 Riverside Street (exit 48 Maine Turnpike) 207-828-8065.

July 19, Allentown, PA. Antique Advertising, Book and Paper Show. Agricultural Hall, Allentown Fairgrounds, 17th & Chew Streets. 610-706-0214.

July 26, Great Barrington, MA. Antiquarian Book Fair at Searles Castle. John Dewey Academy, Great Barrington. 413-441-1010.

August 1 - 2, Denver. Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair, Denver Merchandise Mart. I-25 at 58th Avenue, Denver. 307-631-8599.

August 9 - 10, Jacksonville, Arkansas. Arkansas Book & Paper Fair. Community Center, 105 Municipal Drive, Jacksonville. 501-336-9313.

August 9-10, San Francisco. Vintage Paper Fair. Golden Gate Park. 415-688-1536.

August 10, Woodstock, VT. Vermont Summer Bookfair 2008. Woodstock Union Area,
Route 4 West (next to the High School). For info contact Austin's Books.

August 16, Cincinnati, OH. Cincinnati Antiquarian Book Fair. 7777 Ted Gregory Lane, Montgomery. 513-321-7567.

August 28-31, Baltimore, MD. Baltimore Summer Antiques Show and Book Fair. Baltimore Convention Center, 1 West Pratt Street, Baltimore. 561-822-5440.


Auction Calendar

July 23, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps, Historical Documents & Ephemera.

July 24, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Travel & Exploration, Natural History, and Cartography.

September 24, Stockholm, Sweden. Stockholm Auction House. Rare Atlases, Maps and Plate Books from Ericsberg Castle. Viewing is September 20-23.


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Changes to Antique Maps and Prints Blog

CHANGES TO THE BLOG: For several years, I have enjoyed bringing you information about upcoming meetings and exhibits relating to antique maps and prints. At this point, with increasing demands on my time, I have decided to leave the meeting and exhibit calendars to others, and to focus on the areas of auctions and antiquarian fairs, whose schedules are perhaps less conveniently aggregated on the internet.

Every other week I will continue to gather information about upcoming auctions related to antique maps and prints, and, hopefully, to spice up the blog posts with interesting reports of sold lots. I will include information about antiquarian book and map fairs as well. If you are involved in promoting either of these types of events, please feel free to contact me to get your auction or fair listed. I will endeavor to give more space to specific details about auctions and fairs.

Some of you may have noticed that VintageMaps.com has undergone a redesign recently. It is still very much a work-in-progress, but the new shopping cart is activated, and online ordering is available.


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

June 28, Cooperstown, New York. Cooperstown Antiquarian Bookfair. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. 607-638-9962.

July 5, Lenox, Massachusetts. Lenox Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. Lenox Community Center, 65 Walker Street, Lenox. 413-528-2327.

July 26, Great Barrington, MA. Antiquarian Book Fair at Searles Castle. John Dewey Academy, Great Barrington. 413-441-1010.

August 1 - 2, Denver. Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair, Denver Merchandise Mart. I-25 at 58th Avenue, Denver. 307-631-8599.

August 9 - 10, Jacksonville, Arkansas. Arkansas Book & Paper Fair. Community Center, 105 Municipal Drive, Jacksonville. 501-336-9313.

August 10, Cincinnati, OH. Cincinnati Antiquarian Book Fair. 7777 Ted Gregory Lane, Montgomery. 513-321-7567.

August 10, Woodstock, VT. Vermont Summer Bookfair 2008. Woodstock Union Area,
Route 4 West (next to the High School). For info contact Austin's Books.

August 28-31, Baltimore, MD. Baltimore Summer Antiques Show and Book Fair. Baltimore Convention Center, 1 West Pratt Street, Baltimore. 561-822-5440.


Auction Calendar

June 18, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps, Autographs and Historical Documents.

June 19, New York. Swann Galleries. Maps & Atlases, Natural History, Historical Prints & Ephemera.

June 24, London. Bonhams. Printed Books, Maps, Manuscripts, & Photographs.

July 27, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Travel & Exploration, Natural History, and Cartography.

September 24, Stockholm, Sweden. Stockholm Auction House. Rare Atlases, Maps and Plate Books from Ericsberg Castle. Viewing is September 20-23.


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Antique Maps and Prints News

Antique Maps & Antique Prints - Meeting and Lectures


May 29, London. 5:00 pm. University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. Maps and Society Seventeenth Series Programme - Rose Mitchell of the National Archives presents Castles in the Air? Sixteenth-Century Fortification Plans in The National Archives. The series is sponsored by The International Map Collectors' Society, Imago Mundi, Jonathan Potter, Ltd., and Ash Rare Books. Open to public, free admission.

June 3 ,New York City. 5:30 - 7:30 pm. New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, South Court Auditorium. The Mercator Society presents a discussion by well-known map dealer Graham Arader III, on What Makes a Map an Icon? What Makes a Map Important? Please contact Ilene Kaplowitz at (212) 930-0856 with any questions or to RSVP by phone.

June 6 - 7, London. International Map Collectors' Society. June Weekend. East India Club, 16 St. James's Square. On Friday, Nick Millea, Map Librarian of Oxford's Bodleian Library presents The Gough Map: Britain's Oldest Road Map or a Statement of Empire. The lecture is followed by the society's annual dinner, and presentation of the IMCoS - Helen Wallis Award. On Saturday, the Annual General Meeting takes place at the Royal Geographic Society

June 7, Chicago. The Chicago Map Society is putting on a field trip to the Morton Arboretum, to attend a lecture on Mapping Pre-Settlement Vegetation in Illinois. For more information, contact the Arboretum 630-725-2468.

June 10, Golden, Colorado. 6:30 - 8:30 pm. The Rocky Mountain Map Society presents a special meeting at the Colorado School of Mines, 1400 Illinois, to explore their extensive map collection of more than 200,000 maps, including over a thousand unique, hand-drawn maps. Chris Thiry, the School's Librarian, will lead the event. For more information, email Dave Cole, or call him at 970-203-1264.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions.

For a full listing, please visit current exhibitions for antique maps & prints.
(Note: we apologize for the delay in updating our exhibit calendar. The redesign of the Vintage Maps website is nearly complete, and our calendar will be updated shortly).


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs


May 31 - June 1, Fort Worth, TX. Fort Worth Book, Postcard & Paper Fair. Lockheed-Martin Recreation Center, Fort Worth. Info call 281-565-0771.

May 31 - June 1, Pasadena, CA. The Pasadena Antiquarian Book, Print And Paper Fair.
Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street. Info call 209-358-3134.

June 1, Concord, NH. The New England Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair. Everett Arena , Route 9 ( Loudon Road ). Info call 772-778-8032.

June 7 - 8, London. The London Map Fair. Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington. (Enter from Exhibition Road). An annual antique map fair in the heart of London. The fair draws collectors, curators, and dealers from around the world.

June 28, Cooperstown, New York. Cooperstown Antiquarian Bookfair. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. 607-638-9962.

July 5, Lenox, Massachusetts. Lenox Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. Lenox Community Center, 65 Walker Street, Lenox. 413-528-2327.

August 1 - 2, Denver. Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair, Denver Merchandise Mart. I-25 at 58th Avenue, Denver. 307-631-8599.

August 9 - 10, Jacksonville, Arkansas. Arkansas Book & Paper Fair. Community Center, 105 Municipal Drive, Jacksonville. 501-336-9313.

August 10, Woodstock, VT. Vermont Summer Bookfair 2008. Woodstock Union Area,
Route 4 West (next to the High School). For info contact Austin's Books.


Auction Calendar


May 29, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. The Northwest Part of America: The Library of John M. Steinbrugge. (Featuring a Lewis and Clark first edition).

June 2, London. Christies. Printed Books & Manuscripts.

June 3, London. Bonhams. Prints in Bloom. (Botanical Prints).

June 5, New York. Swann Galleries. Printed and Manuscript Americana.

June 12, New York. Christies. Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana.

June 12, Stockholm. Stockholm Auction House. Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts.

June 18, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps, Autographs and Historical Documents.

June 19, New York. Swann Galleries. Maps & Atlases, Natural History, Historical Prints & Ephemera.


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Antique Maps and Prints News

Antique Maps & Antique Prints - Meeting and Lectures


May 3, Baltimore. The Washington Map Society will be conducting a field trip to Baltimore,
during which participants will visit the Maryland Historical Society and the Walters Art Museum. Four exhibitions about maps and mapping are presented at the Walters this spring. Contact Howard Lange for more information: 703-532-1605.

May 6, Cambridge, England. 5:30 pm. Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. Cholera Mapping from 1819-1854: Before John Snow and the Broad Street outbreak. A presentation in the Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography, by Tom Koch (Adjunct Professor of Medical Geography, University of British Columbia, and Adjunct Professor of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University). For more information, contact Sarah Bendall, 01223 330476.

May 8, London. 5:00 pm. University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. Maps and Society Seventeenth Series Programme - Professor Koch brings his presentation on cholera mapping from Cambridge to London. The series is sponsored by The International Map Collectors' Society, Imago Mundi, Jonathan Potter, Ltd., and Ash Rare Books. Open to public, free admission.

May 10,New York City. 2:30 pm. New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, Classroom B, Celeste Bartos Education Center. Antique map dealer Michael Buehler will present Strategies for Collecting Old Maps. For more information, contact John Woram.

May 15-17, Greenwich, London. The National Maritime Museum. An interdisciplinary conference on the life, times, and legacy of the noted travel author Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552-1616) For more information, contact the Research Administrator, National Maritime Museum.

May 16, Washington, DC. Annual dinner of The Washington Map Society at the Law Office of Jones Day, 51 Louisiana Ave NW. Society President Bill Stanley will discuss James McNeill Whistler: Cartographer. Register online, or for more information, contact Howard Lange
or call 703-532-1605.



Antique Map & Print Exhibitions.


For a full listing, please visit current exhibitions for antique maps & prints.
(Note: we apologize for the delay in updating our exhibit calendar. The redesign of the Vintage Maps website is nearly complete, and our calendar will be updated shortly).


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

May 15 - 18, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor Book Fair. Michigan Union Ballroom, 530 S. State St. Info call 734-995-1891.

May 31 - June 1, Fort Worth, TX. Fort Worth Book, Postcard & Paper Fair. Lockheed-Martin Recreation Center, Fort Worth. Info call 281-565-0771.

May 31 - June 1, Pasadena, CA. The Pasadena Antiquarian Book, Print And Paper Fair.
Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street. Info call 209-358-3134.

June 1, Concord, NH. The New England Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair. Everett Arena , Route 9 ( Loudon Road ). Info call 772-778-8032.

August 10, Woodstock, VT. Vermont Summer Bookfair 2008. Woodstock Union Area,
Route 4 West (next to the High School). For info contact Austin's Books.


Auction Calendar


Through May 7, Online. Old World Auctions. Antique Maps, Atlases, and Decorative Graphics.

May 8, London. Sothebys. Natural History, Travel, Atlases, and Maps.

May 14, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

May 20, Oxford. Bonhams. Printed Books and Maps.


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Antique Maps and Prints News

Antique Maps & Antique Prints - Meeting and Lectures

April 3-5, Chicago. Renaissance Chicago Hotel, One West Wacker Drive. Maps and the Visions of Space and Place in Italy. A session to take place during the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. The presentation is organized by Matthew Edney, director of the History of Cartography Project. For more details, see the meeting page for RSA.

April 4-5, Houston and La Porte, Texas. San Jacinto Battleground. Texas Map Society Spring Meeting. For more information, visit the society's meeting page.

April 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2, 9, Charlottesville, Virginia. Six consecutive Friday mornings, 9:30 - 11:00 AM. A class entitled The Roles of Old Maps: History, Art, Cartography and the Building of Nation. Sponsored by Osher Lifelong Learning Insitute at the University of Virginia. Check for locations and registration details on Osher website.

April 5, Charlottesville, Virginia. The Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture, University of Virginia. A joint field trip for the Washington Map Society and William P. Cumming Map Society, to an exhibition at the University of Virginia Library. The trip provides a guided tour of the exhibition, "On the Map": American Maps from 1500 to 1800 from the Seymour I. Schwartz Collection. For more info contact Joel Kovarsky.

April 9, Boston. 5:30 pm, Abby Room, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street. As Though in Flight: 19th Century American Urban Views, presented by Alex Krieger, Professor of Urban Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. After the lecture, there will be a gallery tour of the exhibition: Boston and Beyond, A Bird's Eye View of New England.

April 9, Philadelphia. 6:00 pm. Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2008-2010 Delancey Place. Harold Brodsky, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography and Affiliate in Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, presents Hidden Messages in the 1695 Map of the Exodus, including looking at the making of maps of the Holy Land in the 17th century. RSVP recommended.

April 10, London. 6:00 pm, Farmers' Club, 3 Whitehall Court, The International Map Collectors' Society's Collectors' Evening. Refreshments available. A chance for members to bring a map for discussion. Chaired by Francis Herbert, who previously served as Map Librarian at the Royal Geographical Society. For more info contact Caroline Batchelor 0-1372-72755.

April 10, Toronto. 6:00 pm. University of Toronto Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street, Room 4049. Upper Canada Map Society meeting. Cathy Moulder of McMaster University Library will discuss Robert Edward Clifford (1767-1817): Maps and Mysteries. The presentation will include maps from the Clifford collection at McMaster. For more info contact Marcel Fortin.

April 12, New York. 2:30 pm, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street, Classroom B, Celeste Bartos Education Center. Meeting of The New York Map Society. Joop Varekamp of Wesleyan University presents Adriaen Block, the discovery of Long Island Sound and the New Netherlands colony: What Drove the Course of History? For more info, contact John Woram.

April 17, Chicago. 5:30 pm. Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. The Chicago Map Society meeting and reception, followed by a 6:00 pm lecture, at the Towner Fellows' Lounge. John Power presents Mapping the World from Jacksonville, Illinois: The Cartographic Career of Henry C. Tunison.

April 17, Washington. 7:00 pm. Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Washington Map Society meeting. Dr. Francesca Fiorani of the University of Virginia presents The Places of Renaissance Mapping. For more info contact Howard Lange 703-532-1605.

April 22, Denver. 6:00 PM, Denver Public Library, 5th floor, Gates Room. The Rocky Mountain Map Society. Angel Abbud-Madrid, Ph.D., presents Where to Draw the Line? Mapping the US-Mexico Border. An examination of the flawed map that was used in creating the new border between the United States and Mexico following the Mexican-American war of 1846-1848. The presentation will also examine the long-lasting impact of this map and the border settlement in the following 160 years. For more info contact Jim Hensinger.


April 24, London. 5:00 PM. University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. Maps and Society Seventeenth Series Programme - Dr Nick Baron of Nottingham University presents "Miracles on a Geographical Map": The Cultures of Soviet Cartography under Lenin and Stalin, 1918-1941. Free admission with refreshments to follow.


Antique Map & Print Exhibitions.

For a full listing, please visit current exhibitions for antique maps & prints.
(Note: we apologize for the delay in updating our exhibit calendar. The redesign of the Vintage Maps website is nearly complete, and our calendar will be updated shortly).


Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

April 4 5, Albuquerque, N.M. Albuquerque Antiquarian Book Fair, University of New Mexico, Continuing Ed. Conference Center. For more info call 505-291-9653.

April 4 - 6, New York City. ABAA New York Antiquarian Book Fair. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, between 66th and 67th Streets. For more info, call 212-777-5218.

April 4 - 8, New York City. West Side Antiquarian Book Fair. Hunter College, West Sportsplex, Lexington Ave. at 68th Street. For info call 413-528-2327.

April 12 - 13, Boston. Boston Antiquarian Book and Ephemera Fair. Seaport World Trade Center, Boston.

April 13, Burlington, VT. Vermont Antiquarian Book Fair. Sheraton Hotel, South Burlington. For more info, call 802-527-7243.


Auction Calendar

April 5, New York City. Bloomsbury Auctions. Important Printed Books and Manuscripts.

April 9, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

April 10, Falls Church, Virginia. Waverly Auctions. Fine Maps & Atlases.

April 17, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Travel & Exploration, Cartography, Natural History.

April 21, Online. Old World Auctions. Antique Maps, Atlases, and Decorative Graphics.

April 23, London. Christies. Travel, Science, and Natural History.


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