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Antique Maps & Antique Prints News, Feb. 2, 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:22:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Prints Meetings

February 13, New York City. 2:30 pm at New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The New York Map Society hosts a presentation by John Hessler, of the Geography and Map Division at theLibrary of Congress. Mr. Hessler will speak about the Footsteps of Caesar: Searching for the Physical, Epigraphical and Manuscript Remains of Roman Cartography.

February 16, Denver. 5:30 pm. Dr. Steve Hoffenberg presents the lecture for the meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society, entitled The Lewis Evans British Middle Colonies -- A Collector's Perspective. The meeting takes place at the Denver Public Library, in the Gates Room, located on the 5th floor.

February 16, London. The International Map Collectors' Society meets in London for an evening of discussion and sharing of antique maps and charts. The meeting will be held at The Farmer's Club, 3 Whitehall Court. The theme is Town and City Plans, but other items for discussion are welcome.

February 18, Chicago. 5:30 PM. The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. Professor Alex Papadopoulos of DePaul University presents Exploring Byzantine Cartographies.

February 18, Oxford, England. 5:00 PM. University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Marc St-Onge of the Geological Survey of Canada presents Hot prospects in the cold: the new international geological map of the Arctic. This lecture is part of the Oxford Seminars in Cartography, 17th Annual Series. For more information, email Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library.

February 18, Washington, DC. 7:00 PM. Early Modern Maps at the Folger Shakespeare Library is the topic for the evening, which encompasses a visit by members of the Washington Map Society, to view the collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The visit is hosted by society member Dr. Erin Blake, who is curator of Art and Special Collections at the Folger. For more information, contact Dennis Gurtz, or call 301-926-1743.

February 23, Cambridge, England. 5:30 PM. Emmanuel College, Harrods Room, St. Andrew's Street. Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography presents Laurence Worms of Ash Rare Books. Mr. Worms' topic is Seller, Pepys and the Seventeenth-century London map trade. The seminar is followed by refreshments. For more information, email Sarah Bendall.

February 25, London. 5:00 PM, Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square. Maps & Society Programme. As part of this series of public lectures in the history of cartography, Captain Michael Barritt, RN, Vice-President of the Hakluyt Society, presents Practical Men of Science: Operational Surveys in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the Emergence of Royal Naval Hydrographic Specialisation. Refreshments follow the presentation, which is free and open to all. For more information call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

March 9, Boston. 5:30 PM. The Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, is the location for the meeting of the Boston Map Society. Picturing a Networked Nation - Abraham Bradley's Landmark U.S. Postal Maps is the title of the evening's presentation, courtesy of Larry Caldwell, collector and society member. Bradley's postal maps, beginning with the publication of the first of three, published in 1796, endeavored to show every postal route in the country at that time. The maps are among the earliest truly American maps ever published. For more info, email Jeremy Pool.

March 18, Chicago. 5:30 PM. The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. While the evening's topic is yet to be announced, the speaker is Martin Brueckner, author of The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy and National Identity, which the American Historical Review called “a book that contributes very positively to moving the study of maps, mapping and geography beyond the simple antinomies inherent in the study of mapping as a form of oppression.”

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

February 6 - 7, San Francisco. San Francisco Antiquarian Book, Print and Paper Fair. San Francisco Concourse, Showplace Square, 7th and Brannan Streets Tel. 510-749-0159.

February 7, Portland, Maine. Southern Maine Antique Paper Show. Holiday Inn West,
81 Riverside Street. Tel. 207-828-8065.

February 12 - 14, Los Angeles. The 43rd Annual California International Antiquarian Book Fair. Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, 2025 Avenue of the Stars. Tel. 800-454-4601.

February 19 - 21, New York City. Greenwich Village Antiquarian Book Fair. PS 3, 490 Hudson Street. Tel. 917 680-0603.

March 5 - 6, Arlington, VA. The 35th Annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair. Holiday Inn, Rosslyn, 1900 North Fort Myer Drive. 301-654-2626.

March 12 - 14, St. Petersberg, Florida. The 29th Annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. The Coliseum, 535 Fourth Avenue North. Tel. 727-234-7759.

March 27, Litchfield, CT. Litchfield Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. Community Center, 421 Bantam Road, Litchfield. Tel. 413-528-2327.

Auction Calendar

Through February 17, Online. Old World Auctions. Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics.

March 3, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books and Maps.

March 4, Falls Church, VA. Waverly Rare Books Auctions. Fine and Rare Books, Autographs, and Maps.

March 18, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Fine Americana with Travel and Exploration.

Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

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.

Through June 26, 2010, New York. The New York Public Library is the setting for an exhibit that focuses on the vitally important waterways and coastal areas of New York, entitled Mapping New York's Shoreline, 1609-2009.

Through August 10, 2010, Portland, Maine. The reopening of the recently-renovated Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine is the setting for the American Treasures Exhibition, a celebration of the rich and varied cartographic collection held by the Center.

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

Permanent Exhibit, Tampa, Florida. Touchton Map Gallery. 801 Old Water Street. 400 Years of Florida Maps 1513-1913. View the immense changes in Florida mapping over the last four centuries.

Permanent Exhibit, Vienna. The Globe Museum, at the Austrian National Library, Palais Mollard, Herrengasse 9. The Globe Museum, the only one of its kind in the world, dedicated exclusively to globes (terrestrial and celestial) and related instruments, such as armillary spheres, planetaria, and telluria.

Permanent Exhibit, Washington, DC. The first map to name America. The 1507 Waldseemüller "World Map"is the centerpiece antique map at the exhibit Exploring the Early Americas at the Library of Congress. Other items rotate in this remarkable exhibition of rare and priceless antique maps. Staged in the Jefferson Building of the library.

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Antique Maps & Antique Prints News, Jan. 17, 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:51:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Prints Meetings

January 21, Chicago. 5:30 PM. The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, speaker and topic are yet to be announced.

January 21, London. 5:00 PM, Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square. Maps & Society Programme. As part of this series of public lectures in the history of cartography, Alexander Johnson, of the University of Exeter's Department of History, presents: Board of Trade and Its Cartographic Agenda in British North America, 1748-1782. Refreshments follow the presentation, which is free and open to all. For more information call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

January 30, Los Angeles. The winter meeting of the California Map Society takes place from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM at California State University, Long Beach. For information, email the society's Southern California vice-president, Juan Ceva.

January 30 - 31, Miami. The Miami International Map Fair. Now in its 16th year, this annual event at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida is a high point on the calendar of many antique map dealers and collectors. The 3 day event spans lectures, antique maps for sale, receptions, and the ever-popular "Expert Opinion" day where visitors can bring in one antique map for expert appraisal.

February 13, New York City. 2:30 pm at New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The New York Map Society hosts a presentation by John Hessler, of the Geography and Map Division at theLibrary of Congress. Mr. Hessler will speak about the Footsteps of Caesar: Searching for the Physical, Epigraphical and Manuscript Remains of Roman Cartography.

February 16, Denver. 5:30 pm. Dr. Steve Hoffenberg presents the lecture for the meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society, entitled The Lewis Evans British Middle Colonies -- A Collector's Perspective. The meeting takes place at the Denver Public Library, in the Gates Room, located on the 5th floor.

February 16, London. The International Map Collectors' Society meets in London for an evening of discussion and sharing of antique maps and charts. The meeting will be held at The Farmer's Club, 3 Whitehall Court. The theme is Town and City Plans, but other items for discussion are welcome.

February 18, Chicago. 5:30 PM. The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street. Professor Alex Papadopoulos of DePaul University presents Exploring Byzantine Cartographies.

February 18, Oxford, England. 5:00 PM. University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Marc St-Onge of the Geological Survey of Canada presents Hot prospects in the cold: the new international geological map of the Arctic. This lecture is part of the Oxford Seminars in Cartography, 17th Annual Series. For more information, email Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library.

February 18, Washington, DC. 7:00 PM. Early Modern Maps at the Folger Shakespeare Library is the topic for the evening, which encompasses a visit by members of the Washington Map Society, to view the collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The visit is hosted by society member Dr. Erin Blake, who is curator of Art and Special Collections at the Folger. For more information, contact Dennis Gurtz, or call 301-926-1743.

February 23, Cambridge, England. 5:30 PM. Emmanuel College, Harrods Room, St. Andrew's Street. Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography presents Laurence Worms of Ash Rare Books. Mr. Worms' topic is Seller, Pepys and the Seventeenth-century London map trade. The seminar is followed by refreshments. For more information, email Sarah Bendall.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

February 6 - 7, San Francisco. San Francisco Antiquarian Book, Print and Paper Fair. San Francisco Concourse, Showplace Square, 7th and Brannan Streets Tel. 510-749-0159.

February 7, Portland, Maine. Southern Maine Antique Paper Show. Holiday Inn West,
81 Riverside Street. Tel. 207-828-8065.

February 12 - 14, Los Angeles. The 43rd Annual California International Antiquarian Book Fair. Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, 2025 Avenue of the Stars. Tel. 800-454-4601.

February 19 - 21, New York City. Greenwich Village Antiquarian Book Fair. PS 3, 490 Hudson Street. Tel. 917 680-0603.

March 12 - 14, St. Petersberg, Florida. The 29th Annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. The Coliseum, 535 Fourth Avenue North. Tel. 727-234-7759.

Auction Calendar

January 27, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books and Maps.

January 28, Online. Old World Auctions. Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics.

March 3, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books and Maps.

Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

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.

Permanent Exhibit, Tampa, Florida. Touchton Map Gallery. 801 Old Water Street. 400 Years of Florida Maps 1513-1913. View the immense changes in Florida mapping over the last four centuries.

Permanent Exhibit, Vienna. The Globe Museum, at the Austrian National Library, Palais Mollard, Herrengasse 9. The Globe Museum, the only one of its kind in the world, dedicated exclusively to globes (terrestrial and celestial) and related instruments, such as armillary spheres, planetaria, and telluria.

Permanent Exhibit, Washington, DC. The first map to name America. The 1507 Waldseemüller "World Map"is the centerpiece antique map at the exhibit Exploring the Early Americas at the Library of Congress. Other items rotate in this remarkable exhibition of rare and priceless antique maps. Staged in the Jefferson Building of the library.

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Antique Maps & Antique Prints News, Nov. 9, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:09:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Prints Meetings

November 12, Boston. 5:30 PM. Boston Public Library, Johnson Bldg., Mezzanine Conference Room. The Mapping of Africa, a presentation by Richard and Penelope Betz, antique map dealers and authors of "The Mapping of Africa: A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700", one of the fundamental reference books on antique African maps.

November 14, New York City. 2:30 pm at New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The New York Map Society hosts a presentation by Peter Dickson, entitled The Magellan Myth: Reflections on Columbus, Vespucci and the Waldseemüller Map of 1507.

November 15, Minneapolis. 2:00 PM. Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, 2400 Third Ave. South. James Welu, director of the Worcester Art Museum, presents Vermeer's "Mania for Maps," which explores the significance, symbolism, and importance of maps and globes in the paintings of the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, whose work was contemporaneous with the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. For more information, call 612-870-6323.

November 17, New York City. 6:00 pm at New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, Room 227. Reception at six, program follows at 6:30 PM. The Mercator Society of the NYPL, which provides major funding for the acquisition of antique maps by the library, presents a discussion and book-signing with author Toby Lester, author of the newly-published book "The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name". For more information, call 212-930-0934, or email Miranda Shutte.

November 19, Chicago. 5:30 PM. The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Ruggles Lounge. Author Toby Lester discusses his new book, "The Fourth Part of the World". (See above listing).

November 19, Washington, DC. 7:00 PM. Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue, Geography and Map Division, B level. Meeting of the Washington Map Society, where Earl McElfresh discusses his study of the mapping of the Gettysburg Campaign, which forced the Confederate Army to rely on quickly-prepared, inexact maps of the local terrain. For more information, contact Dennis Gurtz, or call 301-926-1743.

November 20, Milwaukee, WI.
A symposium at the American Geographical Society Library, located at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, entitled Korean maps in the 19th Century: the Korean National Treasure /Daedong Yeojido/. For more information, contact Angie Cope.

November 24, Cambridge, England. 5:30 PM. Emmanuel College, Harrods Room, St. Andrew's Street. Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography presents Dr. Frances Willmoth of Jesus College speaking on Fens Maps and Moore's Mapp. The seminar is followed by refreshments. For more information, email Sarah Bendall.

November 24, Oxford, England. 5:00 PM. University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Professor Pietro Corsi presents The Map of the Kingdom: The Italian Geological Survey, 1860-2000. This lecture is part of the Oxford Seminars in Cartography, 17th Annual Series. For more information, email Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library.

December 3, London. 5:00 PM, Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square. Maps & Society Programme. As part of this series of public lectures in the history of cartography, Dr Carla Lois (Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universidad Nacional de La Plata) presents Toponymic Landscapes: Ways of Seeing Patagonia in Early Argentinean Maps Refreshments follow the presentation, which is free and open to all. For more information call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

November 14, Boston. Boston Book, Paper, & Ephemera Show. Radisson Hotel, 200 Stuart Street. Tel. 617-482-1800.

December 5-6, Pasadena, CA. Pasadena Book Fair. 300 East Green Street. Tel. 209-358-3134.

Through November 30, Online. 7th Virtual Map Fair.

Auction Calendar

November 10, London. Sotheby's. Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History.

November 20, Online. Old World Auctions. Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics.

November 23, London. Christies. Fine Printed Books, Manuscripts, Traditional Sports. (See our Facebook Page for more details).

November 24, London. Christies. Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books. (See our Facebook Page for more details).

December 1, Oxford. Bonhams. Printed Books, Maps, and Manuscripts.

December 3, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. The De Orbe Novo Collection: Exploration in the New World, 1495-1623.

December 3, New York. Swann Galleries. Maps and Atlases, Books with Plates, Historical Prints, Travel Books, and Ephemera.

December 4, New York. Christies. Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana.

December 9, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books and Maps.

Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

Through December 31, Savannah, GA. Savannah College of Art and Design, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Mapping the Past: A Selection of Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection. An exhibition focusing on antique maps depicting North America, Great Britain and the world, including rare maps from the first atlas depicting the Americas.

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.

Permanent Exhibit, Tampa, Florida. Touchton Map Gallery. 801 Old Water Street. 400 Years of Florida Maps 1513-1913. View the immense changes in Florida mapping over the last four centuries.

Permanent Exhibit, Vienna. The Globe Museum, at the Austrian National Library, Palais Mollard, Herrengasse 9. The Globe Museum, the only one of its kind in the world, dedicated exclusively to globes (terrestrial and celestial) and related instruments, such as armillary spheres, planetaria, and telluria.

Permanent Exhibit, Washington, DC. The first map to name America. The 1507 Waldseemüller "World Map"is the centerpiece antique map at the exhibit Exploring the Early Americas at the Library of Congress. Other items rotate in this remarkable exhibition of rare and priceless antique maps. Staged in the Jefferson Building of the library.

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Antique Maps and Antique Prints News, 10-12-09

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:12:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Prints Meetings

October 11-13, Raleigh, NC. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Full details about this major event can be found on the society's information page.

October 15-18, Portland, ME. Following its reconstruction and expansion, the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine will reopen in celebratory style. The events, including open house, lecture, and conference, include: Thoreau, His Maps, and His Image of Nature, a lecture by John W. Hessler, senior cartographic librarian at the Library of Congress, and New Directions in the Study of Early American Cartography, the inaugural meeting of the Maine Forum for Map History. The event also serves as the opening of the yearlong exhibition, American Treasures, displaying a remarkable collection of antique maps of Maine, New England, the United States, and the world.

October 17, New York City. At 2:30 pm the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street is the venue for the October meeting of the New York Map Society, as they join in the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson arrival in New York harbor and sailing up the Hudson River. Matt Knutzen, interim director of the NYPL map division will deliver a lecture about the current library exhibit Mapping New York's Shoreline, 1609-2009.

October 20, Denver, CO. 5:30 PM, Denver Public Library, 10 West 14th Ave., Gates Room. Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society. Dr. Bruce C. Paton, author of Lewis and Clark: Doctors in the Wilderness, will give a presentation on American explorers, including Zebulon Pike, Lewis and Clark, and Alexander Mackenzie, among others.

October 20, Raleigh, NC. 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM. State Archives & Library Building, 109 East Jones Street, room 308. Staff from UNC-Chapel Hill's Wilson Library, and the State Archives will present North Carolina Maps, from the 16th to the 21st century.

October 22, Washington, DC. 7:00 PM. Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue, Geography and Map Division, B level. Meeting of the Washington Map Society, where member Joel Kovarsky presents Foreshadowing Manifest Destiny: The Cartographic and Geographic Vision of Thomas Jefferson. For more information, contact Dennis Gurtz, or call 301-926-1743.

October 25, San Bernardino, CA. California State University, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The California Map Society is organizing a visit to an exhibit at the Anthropology Museum entitled Seventeenth Century Ottoman Worldview From Pîrî Reis to Kâtip Çelebi. The Ottoman Empire was the world's largest empire in the 16th century. The world maps of Piri Reis, although devoid of latitude and longitude, were astonishingly suitable for navigation. For more information, contact Juan Ceva.

October 27, Edinburgh, Scotland. 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM. The National Library of Scotland, 33 Salisbury Place. A seminar presented by the Scottish Maps Forum will focus on the theme Mapping and Antiquities in Scotland. The seminar will study various Scottish mapmakers, along with early mapping of the Antonine Wall, a stone and turf fortification built by the Romans across the central belt of Scotland.

November 5, London. 5:00 PM, Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square. Maps & Society Programme. As part of this series of public lectures in the history of cartography, Professor Richard Talbert (Department of History, University of North Carolina) presents: The Artemidorus Papyrus and Its (ancient ?) map of ... where... ? Refreshments follow the presentation, which is free and open to all.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

October 18, Northampton, MA. Pioneer Valley Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. Smith Vocational School, 80 Locust St. (Rte 9), Northampton. Tel. 603-509-2639.

October 24, York, PA. York Book & Paper Fair. York Expo Center, 343 West Market Street. Tel. 717-846-2866.

October 25, San Francisco. Golden Gate Park Book Fair. Hall of Flowers, 9th Avenue at Lincoln. Tel. 415-668-1636.

November 7, Houston, TX. 7th Annual Houston Book Fair. Museum of Printing History, 1324 West Clay. Tel. 713-522-4652, ext. 207.

November 7, Paris, France. 8th Paris Map Fair. Hotel Ambassador. 16, Bd Haussmann. Featuring maps, atlases, and travel books.

November 7 - 8, Garden City, Long Island. The Long Island Book & Ephemera Fair. Garden City Field House, 295 Stewart Avenue. Tel. 603-509-2639.

November 8, Albany, NY. 35th Annual Albany Antiquarian Bookfair. Washington Ave. Armory, 195 Washington Ave. Tel. 802-464-8438.

Through November 30, Online. 7th Virtual Map Fair.

Auction Calendar

October 29, London. Sotheby's. Books and Manuscripts from the English Library of Archibald, 5th Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian.

November 4, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

November 5, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Travel, Cartography & Exploration.

November 10, London. Sotheby's. Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History.

Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

Through October 12, New York. Another exhibit not to be missed at the Museum of the City of New York. This exhibit takes the visitor back to the Manhattan of about 400 years ago in Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City. Through cutting-edge technology, the show depicts New York City as it was at the time of Henry Hudson's exploration.

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 December 31, Savannah, GA. Savannah College of Art and Design, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Mapping the Past: A Selection of Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection. An exhibition focusing on antique maps depicting North America, Great Britain and the world, including rare maps from the first atlas depicting the Americas.

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, September 14, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:03:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Prints Meetings

September 17, Columbus, GA. 6:00 pm. The Columbus Museum , 1251 Wynnton Road, presents a guest lecture by Professor Jessica Lacher-Feldman, curator of Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Alabama. Professor Lacher-Feldman will discuss the university's rare map collection.

September 24, South Berwick, Maine. 7:30 pm. Berwick Academy, 31 Academy Street. The Old Berwick Historical Society welcomes Matthew Edney, of the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine. Professor Edney delivers a lecture entitled Mapping Controversy: The Colonial Definition of the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire Boundaries, which looks at the surveys and mapping of the boundaries of Maine and Massachusetts with New Hampshire.

September 24, Washington DC. 7:00 pm. The Washington Map Society welcomes Maryland State Archivist Edward Papenfuse and attorney Stuart Raphael as they discuss a recent Supreme Court ruling on a border dispute between Maryland and Virginia that made use of several antique maps during arguments before the court. For more information, email Dennis Gurtz or call 301-926-1743.

October 2-4, Arlington, TX. Annual fall meeting of the Texas Map Society. The theme of this year's meeting is Humboldt's Legacy: Measuring the World. The three day meeting focuses on this remarkable explorer and cartographer, and includes guest speakers; the display of rare antique maps from diverse collections; a recreation of Pioneer Surveying. For registration details and full information, contact Kit Goodwin.

October 11-13, Raleigh, NC. The 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Full details about this major event can be found on the society's information page.

October 15-18, Portland, ME. Following its reconstruction and expansion, the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine will reopen in celebratory style. The events, including open house, lecture, and conference, include: Thoreau, His Maps, and His Image of Nature, a lecture by John W. Hessler, senior cartographic librarian at the Library of Congress, and New Directions in the Study of Early American Cartography, the inaugural meeting of the Maine Forum for Map History. The event also serves as the opening of the yearlong exhibition, American Treasures, displaying a remarkable collection of antique maps of Maine, New England, the United States, and the world.

October 17, New York City. At 2:30 pm the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street is the venue for the October meeting of the New York Map Society, as they join in the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson arrival in New York harbor and sailing up the Hudson River. Matt Knutzen, interim director of the NYPL map division will deliver a lecture about the current library exhibit Mapping New York's Shoreline, 1609-2009.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

September 26, Boxborough, MA. Boxborough Book, Paper and Collectible Show, Holiday Inn, Boxborough, MA.

October 2-3, Santa Fe, NM. Santa Fe Antiquarian Book Show, El Museo Cultural, 1615 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe. Tel. 505-983-0088.

October 3, Allentown, PA. Great Eastern U.S. Fall Antique Advertising, Book and Paper Show, Allentown Fairgrounds, Agricultural Hall 17 and Chew Street, Allentown. Tel. 610-706 -0214.

October 4, Lansing, MI. Michigan Antiquarian Book and Paper Show. Lansing Center, 333 East Michigan Ave. , Lansing. Tel. 517-332-0112.

October 10-11, Seattle, WA. Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair & Book Arts Show. 1211 East Denny Way, Seattle. Tel. 206-323-3999.

October 18, Northampton, MA. Pioneer Valley Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. Smith Vocational School, 80 Locust St. (Rte 9), Northampton. Tel. 603-509-2639.

Auction Calendar

September 17, Falls Church, VA. Quinn's Auction Galleries. Rare Books with Autographs & Manuscripts.

September 17, New York. Swann Galleries. Printed and Manuscript Americana.

September 23, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

September 29, Oxford. Bonhams. Printed Books and Maps.

October 28, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. Travel and Americana.

November 5, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Travel, Cartography & Exploration.

Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

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 12, New York. Another exhibit not to be missed at the Museum of the City of New York. This exhibit takes the visitor back to the Manhattan of about 400 years ago in Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City. Through cutting-edge technology, the show depicts New York City as it was at the time of Henry Hudson's exploration.

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 December 31, Savannah, GA. Savannah College of Art and Design, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Mapping the Past: A Selection of Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection. An exhibition focusing on antique maps depicting North America, Great Britain and the world, including rare maps from the first atlas depicting the Americas.

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, August 6, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:48:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Prints Meetings

September 6-9, Oslo, Norway. The Mapping and Exploration of Norway and the North is the theme for the 27h symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society. This 3 day event, the most important annual event of the Society, includes speakers from Norway and other countries, and visits to museums and other notable locations. The symposium will offer a comprehensive picture of Norway's cartographic history. Registration is required.

September 12, New York City. 2:15 pm. 1220 Fifth Avenue. The Museum of the City of New York is the destination for the first meeting of the fall season of the New York Map Society. The field trip will include a guided tour of the highlights of the Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds Of Henry Hudson exhibit, which includes rare maps and objects from the 16th and 17th century, and an introduction to the Mannahatta/Manhattan show. RSVP required. For more information, email Heather Kensinger or call 914-498-9797.

September 17, Columbus, GA. 6:00 pm. The Columbus Museum , 1251 Wynnton Road, presents a guest lecture by Professor Jessica Lacher-Feldman, curator of Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Alabama. Professor Lacher-Feldman will discuss the university's rare map collection.

September 24, South Berwick, Maine. 7:30 pm. Berwick Academy, 31 Academy Street. The Old Berwick Historical Society welcomes Matthew Edney, of the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine. Professor Edney delivers a lecture entitled Mapping Controversy: The Colonial Definition of the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire Boundaries, which looks at the surveys and mapping of the boundaries of Maine and Massachusetts with New Hampshire.

September 24, Washington DC. 7:00 pm. The Washington Map Society welcomes Maryland State Archivist Edward Papenfuse and attorney Stuart Raphael as they discuss a recent Supreme Court ruling on a border dispute between Maryland and Virginia that made use of several antique maps during arguments before the court. For more information, email Dennis Gurtz or call 301-926-1743.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

August 8-9, Jacksonville, AR. 24th Arkansas Book & Paper Fair. Community Center, 105 Municipal Drive. For more information, call 501-336-9313.

August 9, Woodstock, VT. Vermont Book and Ephemera Fair. Union Arena, Route 4 West, Woodstock, VT. For more information, call 802-464-8438.

August 16, Concord, NH. New Hampshire Antiquarian Bookfair. Everett Arena, I-93, Exit 14. For more information call 603-666-3083.

August 22-23, Hartford, CT. Papermania Plus. Hartford Civic Center, Trumbull Street. For more information call 860-563-9975.

August 28-29, South Paramus, NJ. Barnes & Noble Vintage Book and Ephemera Fair. 765 Rte. 17, Paramus. For more information call 603-509-2639.

September 3-6, Baltimore, MD. Antiquarian Bookfair at the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show.
Baltimore Convention Center, One West Pratt Street. For more information, call 561-822-5440.

September 5-6, Decatur, GA. Atlanta Rare and Collectible Book Fair. Decatur Conference Center. For more information call 404-713-1521.

September 6, Portland, ME. Southern Maine Antique Paper Show, Holiday Inn West, 81 Riverside Street. For more information call 207-828-8065.

September 12, Rochester, NY. Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair. Minett Hall, Monroe County Fairgrounds, Rochester. For more information, call 585-325-2050.

Auction Calendar

September 3, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Fine Americana with Travel & Exploration.

September 9, London. Christies. Travel and Vintage Posters.

September 17, Falls Church, VA. Quinn's Auction Galleries. Rare Books with Autographs & Manuscripts.

September 17, New York. Swann Galleries. Printed and Manuscript Americana.

Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

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 12, New York. Another exhibit not to be missed at the Museum of the City of New York. This exhibit takes the visitor back to the Manhattan of about 400 years ago in Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City. Through cutting-edge technology, the show depicts New York City as it was at the time of Henry Hudson's exploration.

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 December 31, Savannah, GA. Savannah College of Art and Design, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Mapping the Past: A Selection of Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection. An exhibition focusing on antique maps depicting North America, Great Britain and the world, including rare maps from the first atlas depicting the Americas.

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, July 17, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:56:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Prints Meetings

July 30-31, Swansea, Wales. The University of Swansea is the venue for Mapping the Medieval City, a colloquium that is part of the dissemination of a unique project, Mapping Medieval Chester: place and identity in an English borderland city c.1200-1500. The inter-disciplinary Chester project has brought together a diverse group of scholars, with a main goal of using texts and cartographic material to better understand medieval mappings of this key Roman city on the English and Welsh border.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

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

July 18, Allentown, PA. Book & Paper & Advertising Show. Agricultural Hall, Allentown Fairgrounds, 17th & Chew Streets. For information call 610-706-0214.

July 26, Nashua, NH. New Hampshire Works on Paper. Nashua Holiday Inn, 9 Northeastern Blvd. For information call 603-509-2639.

July 31-August 1, Denver. Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair. Denver Merchandise Mart, 58th Avenue, Denver.

August 1, Great Barrington, MA. Searles Castle Antiquarian Book Fair. Searles Castle, Route 7, Great Barrington. For information, call 413-441-1010.

August 6,Bedford, NH. Granite State Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. Event Center at CR Sparks, 18 Kilton Road. For more information, call 603-509-2639.

August 8-9, Jacksonville, AR. 24th Arkansas Book & Paper Fair. Community Center, 105 Municipal Drive. For more information, call 501-336-9313.

August 9, Woodstock, VT. Vermont Book and Ephemera Fair. Union Arena, Route 4 West, Woodstock, VT. For more information, call 802-464-8438.

August 16, Concord, NH. New Hampshire Antiquarian Bookfair. Everett Arena, I-93, Exit 14. For more information call 603-666-3083.

August 22-23, Hartford, CT. Papermania Plus. Hartford Civic Center, Trumbull Street. For more information call 860-563-9975.

August 28-29, South Paramus, NJ. Barnes & Noble Vintage Book and Ephemera Fair. 765 Rte. 17, Paramus. For more information call 603-509-2639.

Auction Calendar

July 22, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

July 23, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Natural History, Travel & Exploration, Maps, Prints.

August 5, New York. Swann Galleries. Vintage Posters.

August 10, Chester, England. Bonhams. Maps, Prints, & Paintings.

Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

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, July 4, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:25:00 +0000

Antique Map & Print Meetings

July 11, New York City. 2:30 pm. New York Public Library, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. The New York Map Society holds its annual summer social. Members will be invited to speak to the society about their passion for antique map collecting, along with suggestions for future meeting topics, ideas about the society, and any other input that they care to share. The meeting will take place in Auditorium of the NYPL. After the session, participants are invited to continue socializing at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station.

July 12-17, Copenhagen. The Royal Library of Denmark is the setting for The 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography. This international conference is the only one of its kind -- the only scholarly conference exclusively focused on the history of maps and mapmaking, without regard to geographical region,topic, period, or language.

July 13, Blue Mountain Lake, New York. 12 Noon-1:30 PM. Bring a brown bag lunch to the Adirondack Museum for their event Mapping the Adirondacks. The museum's boasts a unique collection of antique maps related to the Adirondacks region of New York State. Reservations and information, call 518-352-7311 ext. 181.

July 30-31, Swansea, Wales. The University of Swansea is the venue for Mapping the Medieval City, a colloquium that is part of the dissemination of a unique project, Mapping Medieval Chester: place and identity in an English borderland city c.1200-1500. The inter-disciplinary Chester project has brought together a diverse group of scholars, with a main goal of using texts and cartographic material to better understand medieval mappings of this key Roman city on the English and Welsh border.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

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

July 18, Allentown, PA. Book & Paper & Advertising Show. Agricultural Hall, Allentown Fairgrounds, 17th & Chew Streets. For information call 610-706-0214.

July 26, Nashua, NH. New Hampshire Works on Paper. Nashua Holiday Inn, 9 Northeastern Blvd. For information call 603-509-2639.

July 31-August 1, Denver. Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair. Denver Merchandise Mart, 58th Avenue, Denver.

August 1, Great Barrington, MA. Searles Castle Antiquarian Book Fair. Searles Castle, Route 7, Great Barrington. For information, call 413-441-1010.

August 6,Bedford, NH. Granite State Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. Event Center at CR Sparks, 18 Kilton Road. For more information, call 603-509-2639.

August 8-9, Jacksonville, AR. 24th Arkansas Book & Paper Fair. Community Center, 105 Municipal Drive. For more information, call 501-336-9313.

August 9, Woodstock, VT. Vermont Book and Ephemera Fair. Union Arena, Route 4 West, Woodstock, VT. For more information, call 802-464-8438.

Auction Calendar

July 9, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana.

July 22, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

Antique Map & Print Exhibitions

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, June 5, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:49:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:08:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:03:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:52:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:12:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:19:00 +0000

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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Antique Maps & Prints News, January 10, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Antique Map & Print Meetings

January 15, 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.

January 22, Chicago. 5:30 PM. The Chicago Map Society meets in the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street. The meeting will focus on Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, on the 100th anniversary of its creation. The Burnham Plan, never fully realized, is nonetheless a vital document in Chicago's development that continues to influence urban planning in the city. Former president of the Chicago Map Society, Dennis McClendon, will lead the discussion.

January 22, London. 5:00 PM. Maps and Society Eighteenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. Dr Benjamin Olshin (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, History, and History of Science, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia) will present Speculations and Discoveries: Brazil and the Other Side of the Globe at the end of the 15th Century. Free admission, with refreshments following the lecture. More info, call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

January 27, Denver. 5:30 PM. Denver Public Library, 13th and Broadway, Gates Room. Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society, featuring a discussion led by University of Virginia librarians Karin Wittenborg and Hoke Perkins about the renowned antique map collections of the University of Virgina.

February 2, Oxford. 5:00 PM. 16th Annual Series of the Oxford Series in Cartography presents Treasures of the Christ Church Library at Oxford University. Reservations required, email Nick Millea, or call 01865 287119.

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.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

January 16-17, New York City. Books at the 25th Street Armory. 26th Street at Lexington Avenue. An antiquarian book fair. For more information call 215-862-5828.

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.

Auction Calendar

January 26, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. Decorative American Prints, Maps, and Atlases.

January 28, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books and Maps.

January 29, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Hawaiiana, Travel & Exploration, Cartography.

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

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

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 & Prints News, December 11, 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:48:00 +0000

Antique Map & Print Meetings

January 2, Denver. The Rocky Mountain Map Society hosts a discussion concerning the Seymour I. Schwartz Collection of North American Maps 1500-1800, housed at the University of Virginia.

January 15, 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.

January 22, Chicago. 5:30 PM. The Chicago Map Society meets in the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street. The meeting will focus on Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, on the 100th anniversary of its creation. The Burnham Plan, never fully realized, is nonetheless a vital document in Chicago's development that continues to influence urban planning in the city. Former president of the Chicago Map Society, Dennis McClendon, will lead the discussion.

January 22, London. 5:00 PM. Maps and Society Eighteenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. Dr Benjamin Olshin (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, History, and History of Science, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia) will present Speculations and Discoveries: Brazil and the Other Side of the Globe at the end of the 15th Century. Free admission, with refreshments following the lecture. More info, call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

January 2-3, 2009. East Hanover, NJ. New Jersey Antiquarian Book Fair. Ramada Inn and Conference Center, 130 Route 10 West. For more information, call 802-464-8438, or email.

January 4, Nashua, NH. New Hampshire Works on Paper. Nashua Holiday Inn, 9 Northeastern Blvd. For information call 603-509-2639.

January 10-11, Hartford, CT. PaperMania Plus, The Excel Center, Hartford. For more information, call 860-563-9975 .

January 16-17, New York City. Books at the 25th Street Armory. 26th Street at Lexington Avenue. An antiquarian book fair. For more information call 215-862-5828.

Auction Calendar

December 17, London. Bonhams. Exploration, Travel, and Topographical Pictures.

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 & Prints News, November 15, 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:17:00 +0000

Antique Map & Print Meetings

November 19, Charlottesville, NC. 4:00 PM, The Harrison-Small Auditorium, Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. Map collector and map historian David Rumsey presents Giving Maps a Second Life with Digital Technologies. Rumsey's stunning, digitized map collection is one of the most extensive digitized antique map collections on the internet. Reception follows Mr. Rumsey's presentation.

November 20, Oxford. 5:00 PM. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography, Board Room, University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Richard Oliver of the University of Exeter presents: At the end of the queue: the Ordnance Survey one-inch in the later nineteenth century. For more information email Nick Millea, Bodleian Library map librarian.

November 20, New York. 5:30 PM. The Mercator Society of the New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, presents Vincent Virga, author of Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations and Historic Maps and Views of New York.Space is limited. R.S.V.P. 212-930-0856.

November 25, Cambridge, England. 5:30 PM. Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography 2008-2009. Spike Bucklow of The Hamilton Kerr Institute will discuss technical aspects of the Hereford Mappa Mundi. Refreshments to follow. For information, email Sarah Bendell.

November 26, Vienna. 5:00 PM. Annual meeting of the General Assembly of the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes. Palais Mollard, 2nd floor, Herrengasse 9.

December 3, Washington, DC. 7:00 PM. National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue at 9th Street, NW. The Washington Map Society, in cooperation with the National Archives, presents a panel discussion, The Treaty of Paris and the U.S.-Canadian Border, and the 'Mitchell Map.' From 5:45 - 6:45 PM, attendees will be able to take in the exhibit, 1783: Subject or Citizen? by special arrangement with the Archives. For more information, email Pete Porrazzo or call 703-883-1843.

December 4, London. 5:00 PM. Maps and Society Eighteenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. Professor Francesca Rochberg (Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley) will present: New Light on the Maps and Mapping in Ancient Mesopotamia. Free admission, with refreshments following the lecture. More info, call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

December 9, Boston. 5:30 - 8:00 PM. The Boston Map Society meets at the Boston Public Library and presents The Early Printed Cartography of Scandinavia, a lecture by William B. Ginsberg. Mr. Ginsberg is the author of Printed Maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic, 1482 -1601. McKim Building, Orientation Room. For more info email Ky Kylander.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

November 14 - 16, Boston. Boston Antiquarian Book Fair. Hynes Convention Center. The 32nd annual.

November 15, Boston. Boston Book, Print, and Ephemera Show. Park Plaza Castle, Boston. For info contact 978-535-4811.

November 22-23, Richmond, VA. Richmond Antiques and Book Fair. The Showplace, 3000 Mechanicsville Pike (Route 360). 804-462-6190.

November 29, Portland, ME. Southern Maine Antique Paper Show. Holiday Inn West 81 Riverside Street. 207-828-8065.

January 2-3, 2009. East Hanover, NJ. New Jersey Antiquarian Book Fair. Ramada Inn and Conference Center, 130 Route 10 West. For more information, call 802-464-8438, or email.

January 4, Nashua, NH. New Hampshire Works on Paper. Nashua Holiday Inn, 9 Northeastern Blvd. For information call 603-509-2639.

Auction Calendar

November 18, New York. Swann Galleries. Printed and Manuscript Americana.

November 19, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. The Jay T. Snider Collection, featuring the History of Philadelphia and Important Americana.

November 21. Online. Old World Auctions.

December 1, Online. The Virtual Antique Map Fair.

December 2, Oxford. Bonhams. Printed Books, Atlases, and Maps.

December 4, New York. Swann Galleries. 100 Rare & Important Maps & Atlases; and Travel Books Featuring Works on Africa, Maps & Atlases, Natural History and Historical Prints.

December 5, New York. Christies. Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana.

December 10, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

December 11, New York. Sothebys. Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana.

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 & Prints -- Meetings, Fairs & Auctions

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:08:00 +0000

Antique Map & Print Meetings

November 6, London. 5:00 PM. Maps and Society Eighteenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. Graham Dolan, the Senior Educational Officer for The Greenwich Observatory, will present: On the Meridian of Greenwich: When did it Move, and Why, and Where is it? Free admission, with refreshments following the lecture. More info, call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

November 8, New York City. 2:30 PM. New York Public Library, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. The addition of later color to uncolored antique maps is a controversial topic. At this meeting of the New York Map Society, artist, colorist, and map collector Dorothy Raphaely will discuss her map coloring work and the issues it raises.

November 13, Washington DC. 7:00 PM. The Washington Map Society meeting, Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Dr. John Hessler, Senior Reference Librarian, Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, presents: Zeno's Mice: Martin Waldseemüller, Johannes Schöner, and the Rise of Theoretical Cartography 1490-1525. Dr. Hessler's writings include work on Renaissance cartography, and he has recently translated and commented on Waldseemüller's Cosmographiae Introductio. For more details call Jim Lightfoot, 301-932-9004.

November 19, Charlottesville, NC. 4:00 PM, The Harrison-Small Auditorium, Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. Map collector and map historian David Rumsey presents Giving Maps a Second Life with Digital Technologies. Rumsey's stunning, digitized map collection is one of the most extensive digitized antique map collections on the internet. Reception follows Mr. Rumsey's presentation.

November 20, Oxford. 5:00 PM. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography, Board Room, University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Richard Oliver of the University of Exeter presents: At the end of the queue: the Ordnance Survey one-inch in the later nineteenth century. For more information email Nick Millea, Bodleian Library map librarian.

November 25, Cambridge, England. 5:30 PM. Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography 2008-2009. Spike Bucklow of The Hamilton Kerr Institute will discuss technical aspects of the Hereford Mappa Mundi. Refreshments to follow. For information, email Sarah Bendell.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

November 9, Albany, New York. Albany Antiquarian Book Fair. The Washington Avenue Armory, 195 Washington Avenue. Presented by the Albany Institute of History and Art.

November 14 - 16, Boston. Boston Antiquarian Book Fair. Hynes Convention Center. The 32nd annual.

November 15, Boston. Boston Book, Print, and Ephemera Show. Park Plaza Castle, Boston. For info contact 978-535-4811.

November 22-23, Richmond, VA. Richmond Antiques and Book Fair. The Showplace, 3000 Mechanicsville Pike (Route 360). 804-462-6190.

November 29, Portland, ME. Southern Maine Antique Paper Show. Holiday Inn West 81 Riverside Street. 207-828-8065.

Auction Calendar

November 4, London. Bonhams. Printed Books, Maps, Manuscripts, and Photographs.

November 5, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps, Historical Documents & Ephemera.

November 6, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Travel, & Maps.

November 11, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. Natural History, including the Trust of Lynn Abbott Collection.

November 13, Falls Church, VA. Waverly Auctions. Fine & Rare Books, Maps & Atlases.

November 13, London. Sotheby's. Natural History, Travel, Atlases, & Maps.

November 16, Boston. Skinner Auctions. Fine Books & Manuscripts.

November 18, New York. Swann Galleries. Printed and Manuscript Americana.

November 19, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. The Jay T. Snider Collection, featuring the History of Philadelphia and Important Americana.

December 1, Online. The Virtual Antique Map Fair.

December 2, Oxford. Bonhams. Printed Books, Atlases, and Maps.

December 10, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps.

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 & Prints -- Meetings, Fairs & Auctions

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:41:00 +0000

Antique Map & Print Meetings

October 29,Toronto. 6:00 PM. The Upper Canada Map Society. University of Toronto, Robarts Library, Room 4049, 130 St. George Street. Richard Feltoe, a military historian, presents The Mystery of the Rotating Map - An Incident from the War of 1812. Open to the public. For more info, email Megan Webster.

October 30, Washington, D.C. 7:00 PM. Washington Map Society meeting, featuring an evening with Jeremy Pool, publisher of the Antique Map Price Record, who will discuss a wide range of topics about this bible of antique map prices. The Antique Map Price Record has been published for 25 years, beginning as a hardcover annual book, and now a software publication.

November 6, London. 5:00 PM. Maps and Society Eighteenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. Graham Dolan, the Senior Educational Officer for The Greenwich Observatory, will present: On the Meridian of Greenwich: When did it Move, and Why, and Where is it? Free admission, with refreshments following the lecture. More info, call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.

November 8, New York City. 2:30 PM. New York Public Library, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. The addition of later color to uncolored antique maps is a controversial topic. At this meeting of the New York Map Society, artist, colorist, and map collector Dorothy Raphaely will discuss her map coloring work and the issues it raises.

November 13, Washington DC. 7:00 PM. The Washington Map Society meeting, Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Dr. John Hessler, Senior Reference Librarian, Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, presents: Zeno's Mice: Martin Waldseemüller, Johannes Schöner, and the Rise of Theoretical Cartography 1490-1525. Dr. Hessler's writings include work on Renaissance cartography, and he has recently translated and commented on Waldseemüller's Cosmographiae Introductio. For more details call Jim Lightfoot, 301-932-9004.

November 20, Oxford. 5:00 PM. The Oxford Seminars in Cartography, Board Room, University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Richard Oliver of the University of Exeter presents: At the end of the queue: the Ordnance Survey one-inch in the later nineteenth century. For more information email Nick Millea, Bodleian Library map librarian.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

October 11-12, Seattle, WA. Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. For information call 206-323-3999.

October 17-18, New York City. West Side Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. 135 West 18th Street, NYC. For information call 413-528-2327 or bgventer@bookfairs.com

October 25-26, Houston, TX. Houston Book, Postcard & Paper Fair. Stafford Center, 10505 Cash Road, Stafford, TX. For information, call 281-565-0771.

October 25-26, Ottawa, ON. 28th Ottawa Antiquarian Book Fair. Hampton Inn Conference Center, 200 Coventry Road. For information contact hrk@hrkahnbooks.com

October 26, Chicago, IL. Chicago Antiquarian Book Fair. De Paul University, Student Center, 2250 North Sheffield. For information contact books@bookleggers.com

November 1-2, Garden City, NY. Long Island Book & Ephemera Fair. Garden City Field House, 295 Stewart Avenue. For information call 603-509-2639.

November 2, Toronto, ON. 18th Toronto Book Fair. St. Lawrence Market, 92 Front Street East. For information call 416-483-6471 or email.

November 9, Albany, New York. Albany Antiquarian Book Fair. The Armory, 195 Washington Avenue. For information, call 518-449-5419.

November 14 - 16, Boston. Boston Antiquarian Book Fair. Hynes Convention Center. The 32nd annual.

November 15, Boston. Boston Book, Print, and Ephemera Show. Park Plaza Castle, Boston. For info contact 978-535-4811.

Auction Calendar

November 4, London. Bonhams. Printed Books, Maps, Manuscripts, and Photographs.

November 5, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps, Historical Documents & Ephemera.

November 6, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Travel, & Maps.

November 11, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. Natural History, including the Trust of Lynn Abbott Collection.

November 13, Falls Church, VA. Waverly Auctions. Fine & Rare Books, Maps & Atlases.

November 13, London. Sotheby's. Natural History, Travel, Atlases, & Maps.

November 19, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. The Jay T. Snider Collection, featuring the History of Philadelphia and Important Americana.

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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noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:30:00 +0000

Antique Map & Print Meetings

October 18, Winchester, VA. The Washington Map Society takes a field trip to the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, to take in an exhibit entitled Jed Hotchkiss: Shenandoah Valley Mapmaker. For more information, email Howard Lange, or call 703-532-1605.

October 30, Washington, D.C. 7:00 PM. Washington Map Society meeting, featuring an evening with Jeremy Pool, publisher of the Antique Map Price Record, who will discuss a wide range of topics about this bible of antique map prices. The Antique Map Price Record has been the published for 25 years, beginning as a hardcover annual book, and now a software publication.

November 8, New York City. 2:30 PM. New York Public Library, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. The addition of later color to uncolored antique maps is a controversial topic. At this meeting of the New York Map Society, artist, colorist, and map collector Dorothy Raphaely will discuss her map coloring work and the issues it raises.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

October 11-12, Seattle, WA. Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. For information call 206-323-3999.

October 17-18, New York City. West Side Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. 135 West 18th Street, NYC. For information call 413-528-2327 or bgventer@bookfairs.com

October 25-26, Houston, TX. Houston Book, Postcard & Paper Fair. Stafford Center, 10505 Cash Road, Stafford, TX. For information, call 281-565-0771.

October 25-26, Ottawa, ON. 28th Ottawa Antiquarian Book Fair. Hampton Inn Conference Center, 200 Coventry Road. For information contact hrk@hrkahnbooks.com

October 26, Chicago, IL. Chicago Antiquarian Book Fair. De Paul University, Student Center, 2250 North Sheffield. For information contact books@bookleggers.com

November 1-2, Garden City, NY. Long Island Book & Ephemera Fair. Garden City Field House, 295 Stewart Avenue. For information call 603-509-2639.

November 2, Toronto, ON. 18th Toronto Book Fair. St. Lawrence Market, 92 Front Street East. For information call 416-483-6471 or email.

Auction Calendar

November 5, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps, Historical Documents & Ephemera.

November 6, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Travel, & Maps.

November 13, Falls Church, VA. Waverly Auctions. Fine & Rare Books, Maps & Atlases.

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 & Prints News, September 1, 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:31:00 +0000

Antique Map & Print Meetings

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.

September 25, Washington D.C. Meeting of the Washington Map Society. 7:00 P.M., Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Madison Building, B level, 101 Independence Avenue. In a politically timely presentation, Professor Kenneth Martis, Professor of Geography at West Virginia University, will speak on The History of the Election Map. Professor Martis is the author or co-author of six, well-received political books, including The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts: 1789-1983. For more information, email Dennis Gurtz, or call 301-926-1743.

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

September 6-7, Santa Monica, CA. The Santa Monica Antiquarian Book, Print, Photo and Paper Fair, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. For information call 209-358-3134.

September 6-7, Columbus, OH. Columbus Book & Paper Show. Veterans Memorial Hall, 300 West Broad Street. For information, call 614-781-0070.

September 7, Portland, ME. Southern Maine Antique Paper Show. Holiday Inn West, 81 Riverside Street. (Exit 48 Maine Pike). For information, call 207 828-8065.

September 13, Rochester, NY. Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair. Minett Hall, Monroe County Fairgrounds. For information call 585-325-2050.

September 19-20, Denver. Rocky Mountain Antique Map Fair, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Map Society. The fair takes place at the Denver Central Library, 13th & Broadway. For information, email Myron West or call 307-631-8599.

September 20, Sacramento, CA. Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair. Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street. For information, call Jim Kay, 916-849-9248.

October 3-4, Santa Fe, NM. Santa Fe Antiquarian Book Show. 1615 Paseo de Peralta. For information, call 505-983-0088.

Auction Calendar

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

September 8, Online. Old World Auctions. Antique Maps, Atlases and Decorative Graphics.

September 11, London. Bloomsbury Auctions. Maps and Atlases.

September 11, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Americana, Travel & Exploration, and Cartography.

September 17, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. Bibliophile Sale, including Americana and Maps.

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

September 25, London. Christies. Exploration and Travel.

October 1, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books & Maps, Historical Documents & Ephemera.

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 & Prints News, August 5, 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:16:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:39:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:06:00 +0000

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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