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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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Antique Maps and Prints News

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:07:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Antique Prints - Meeting and Lectures

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

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

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

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

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

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

Antique Map & Print Exhibitions.

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

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

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

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

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

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

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

Auction Calendar

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

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

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

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

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Antique Maps and Prints News

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:44:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Antique Prints - Meeting and Lectures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Antique Map & Print Exhibitions.

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

Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs

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

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

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

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

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

Auction Calendar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Antique Maps and Prints News

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:48:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Antique Prints - Meeting and Lectures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

March 29-30, Long Island, N.Y. The Long Island Book & Ephemera Fair. Garden City Field House, 295 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, N.Y. For more info call 603-509-2639.

March 30, Litchfield, Connecticut. Litchfield Antiquarian Bookfair. Litchfield Community Center, 421 Bantam Road, (Rte. 202), Litchfield. For more information, call 413-528-2327.

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

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

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

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

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

Auction Calendar

April 3, New York City. Swann Galleries. Fine Books, including Work on Polar Exploration.

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

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

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

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

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Antique Maps and Prints News

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:35:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Antique Prints - Meeting and Lectures

March 19, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2:00 PM. Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Auditorium, University of North Carolina. 2nd Annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science. David Rumsey, map scholar an collector, presents Turning Private Collections into Public Resources Using Digital Technologies and the Internet. Reception to follow. Hosted by the School of Information and Library Science at UNC. The event is free, but seating is limited, so reservation recommended. RSVP via email or call 919.962.8366.

March 20,Hampden-Sydney, Virginia. Times throughout the day. Cartographic Symposium sponsored by the Hampden-Sydney College Library. The event includes several lectures, covering antique globes and other collections. Contact Sharon Goad for more information.

March 25, Baltimore, MD. 12:00 Noon. Maryland Historical Society, 201 West Monument Street. Opening of the exhibition Borders and Boundaries: The Mason-Dixon Line. For more info, call 410-685-3750.

March 25, Edinburgh, Scotland. 7:00 PM, National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge. Chris Fleet, Curator of the Library Map Collections, presents Early Route-ways and Roads in Scotland. For more info, email events@nls.uk

March 27, Stanardsville, Virginia. 6:00 PM. Greene County Library, 222 Main Street.Evelyn Edson presents Medieval Mapmakers: Putting America on the Map. The discussion focuses on 14th and 15th-century mapmakers.

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

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

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

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

March 29-30, Long Island, N.Y. The Long Island Book & Ephemera Fair. Garden City Field House, 295 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, N.Y. For more info call 603-509-2639.

March 30, Litchfield, Connecticut. Litchfield Antiquarian Bookfair. Litchfield Community Center, 421 Bantam Road, (Rte. 202), Litchfield. For more information, call 413-528-2327.

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

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

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

Auction Calendar

March 18, London. Bonhams. Printed Books, Maps, Manuscripts, & Photographs.

March 27, London. Bloomsbury Auctions. Maps & Atlases.

April 3, New York City. Swann Galleries. Fine Books, including Work on Polar Exploration.

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

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

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Antique Maps and Prints News

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:46:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Antique Prints - Meeting and Lectures

March 1, Houston, TX. The spring meeting of the Texas Map Society is planned. For more info, contact Kit Goodwin, or call 817- 861-1425.

March 8, New York. 2:30 pm. Meeting of the New York Map Society. Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York City. Classroom B, in the South Court's Celeste Bartos Education Center. The discussion for this meeting is Maps of Ireland, presented by Mike Shannon. For more information, email to John Woram.

March 8, Richmond, VA. 1:00 PM. The Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond. The 2008 Alan M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography. The event consists of two presentations, by Dr. Matthew H. Edney, Director of the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Osher Professor of Geography in the History of Cartography. John Mitchell, His Map, and the Eighteenth Century Culture of Geography, and 'The History of Cartography': The Challenges posed by the History of Maps in the Modern World (after 1650). There is also a tour, combined with box lunch, beginning at 11 AM. The lectures are free and open to the public. The tour/lunch fee is $10. For more information and reservations, call 804-692-3813.

March 11, Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 PM. The Women Behind the Maps, by Mary McMichael Ritzlin, sponsored by the William P. Cumming Map Society. Kresge Auditorium on the campus of Meredith College, with a reception following, at 8:00 PM, at Gallery C in Ridgewood Shopping Center on Wade Avenue, Raleigh. For reservations, call 919-828-3165, or email.

March 13, London. 5:00 pm. Maps and Society Seventeenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute Mapping the Railway: An Overview and Case Study of Britain's Extensive and Largely Unexplored Record, presented by David Milbank Challis and Andy Rush, Industrialogical Associates/Railway Record of the British Isles. Free and open to the public.

March 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. Richard Betz, author of "The Mapping of Africa: A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700," and Penelope Betz, present The Cartobibliographic Process used for The Mapping of Africa: Sebastian Münster's 1540 Map of Africa as a Case Study. For further information, email Howard Lange or call 703-532-1605.

March 19, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2:00 PM. Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Auditorium, University of North Carolina. 2nd Annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science. David Rumsey, map scholar an collector, presents Turning Private Collections into Public Resources Using Digital Technologies and the Internet. Reception to follow. Hosted by the School of Information and Library Science at UNC. The event is free, but seating is limited, so reservation recommended. RSVP via email or call 919.962.8366.

March 20,Hampden-Sydney, Virginia. Times throughout the day. Cartographic Symposium sponsored by the Hampden-Sydney College Library. The event includes several lectures, covering antique globes and other collections. Contact Sharon Goad for more information.

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

March 7-8, Arlington, Virginia. The Washington Antiquarian Book Fair. Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge, 1900 North Fort Myer Drive. For more info, call 301-654-2626.

March 14-16, Greenwich, CT. The Ephemera Society Conference and Paper Show. Hyatt Regency, Old Greenwich, CT. For info, call 315-655-9139.

March 14-16, St. Petersburg, Florida. The 27th Annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. The Coliseum, 535 Fourth Ave., North. Over 100 national and international dealers. For more info, contact Sarah Smith or call 727-822-3278.

March 29-30, Long Island, N.Y. The Long Island Book & Ephemera Fair. Garden City Field House, 295 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, N.Y. For more info call 603-509-2639.

March 30, Litchfield, Connecticut. Litchfield Antiquarian Bookfair. Litchfield Community Center, 421 Bantam Road, (Rte. 202), Litchfield. For more information, call 413-528-2327.

Auction Calendar

March 5, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera Travel, Film & Decorative Posters.

March 10-20. Online Auction. Paulus Swaen. Antique Maps & Prints Auction.

March 11, Knowle, England. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps: Part One.

March 13, New York. Swann Galleries. Autographs, especially Americana.

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Antique Maps and Prints News

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:52:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Antique Prints - Meeting and Lectures

February 28, London. 5:00 pm. Maps and Society Seventeenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. Dr. James Kelly, professor at the University of Oxford's Worcester College, will present Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton (1720): Spectacular Speculative Geography. Free and open to the public.

March 1, Houston, TX. The spring meeting of the Texas Map Society is planned. For more info, contact Kit Goodwin, or call 817- 861-1425.

March 8, New York. 2:30 pm. Meeting of the New York Map Society. Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York City. Classroom B, in the South Court's Celeste Bartos Education Center. The discussion for this meeting is Maps of Ireland, presented by Mike Shannon. For more information, email to John Woram.

March 8, Richmond, VA. 1:00 PM. The Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street, Richmond. The 2008 Alan M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography. The event consists of two presentations, by Dr. Matthew H. Edney, Director of the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Osher Professor of Geography in the History of Cartography. John Mitchell, His Map, and the Eighteenth Century Culture of Geography, and 'The History of Cartography': The Challenges posed by the History of Maps in the Modern World (after 1650). There is also a tour, combined with box lunch, beginning at 11 AM. The lectures are free and open to the public. The tour/lunch fee is $10. For more information and reservations, call 804-692-3813.

March 11, Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 PM. The Women Behind the Maps, by Mary McMichael Ritzlin, sponsored by the William P. Cumming Map Society. Kresge Auditorium on the campus of Meredith College, with a reception following, at 8:00 PM, at Gallery C in Ridgewood Shopping Center on Wade Avenue, Raleigh. For reservations, call 919-828-3165, or email.

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

February 22-24, New York. Greenwich Village Antiquarian Book Fair. Public School 3, 490 Hudson Street, Greenwich Village. Now in its 28th year, a famous antiquarian book fair run by the Public School 3 community. For info call: 646-302-5617.

March 7-8, Arlington, Virginia. The Washington Antiquarian Book Fair. Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge, 1900 North Fort Myer Drive. For more info, call 301-654-2626.

March 14-16, St. Petersburg, Florida. The 27th Annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. The Coliseum, 535 Fourth Ave., North. Over 100 national and international dealers. For more info, contact Sarah Smith or call 727-822-3278.

March 29-30, Long Island, N.Y. The Long Island Book & Ephemera Fair. Garden City Field House, 295 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, N.Y. For more info call 603-509-2639.

March 30, Litchfield, Connecticut. Litchfield Antiquarian Bookfair. Litchfield Community Center, 421 Bantam Road, (Rte. 202), Litchfield. For more information, call 413-528-2327.

Auction Calendar

February 27, Amsterdam. Christies. Travel, Exploration & Natural History including Afghanistan, Central Asia & the Subcontinent.

March 5, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera Travel, Film & Decorative Posters.

March 10-20. Online Auction. Paulus Swaen. Antique Maps & Prints Auction.

March 11, Knowle, England. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps: Part One.

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Antique Maps and Prints News

noreply@blogger.com (Neil Street) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:00:00 +0000

Antique Maps & Antique Prints - Meeting and Lectures

February 9, New York. 2:30 pm. Meeting of the New York Map Society. Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York City. Classroom B, in the South Court's Celeste Bartos Education Center. Map Curator Ron Grim, of the Boston Public Library will discuss Bird's-eye View Maps. For more information, email to John Woram.

February 9, Fort Collins, Colorado. 12:00 Noon. The Rocky Mountain Map Society will conduct a visit to the exhibit Impressions of Place: Prints and Cartography from the Dave and Lily Cole Collection, in the Hatton Gallery of Colorado State University. The Cole Collection boasts an impressive gathering of antique maps and antique prints, spanning five centuries. Lunch available for society members. For more info, contact Dave Cole or call 970-203-1264.

February 21, Washington D.C. 7:00 pm. Meeting of the Washington Map Society. Library of Congress, Madison Building, Geography and Map Division, B level, 101 Independence Avenue. One of the most important American antique maps, the seminal John Smith map of Virginia, will be the subject of a discussion by Dr. Stephen Potter entitled Rethinking John Smith's Map of Virginia. The map is a vital document today for archeologists, historians, cartographers, and others. Dr. Potter is Regional Archeologist for the National Capital Region of the National Park Service. For more information, email Howard Lange, or call him at 703-532-1605.

February 28, London. 5:00 pm. Maps and Society Seventeenth Series Programme, University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square. Dr. James Kelly, professor at the University of Oxford's Worcester College, will present Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton (1720): Spectacular Speculative Geography. Free and open to the public.

March 1, Houston, TX. The spring meeting of the Texas Map Society is planned. For more info, contact Kit Goodwin, or call 817- 861-1425.

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

February 1-2, West Hanover, N.J. New Jersey Antiquarian Book Fair. The Ramada Inn, 130 Route 10 West Hanover, NJ.

February 1-3, Miami. The 15th Annual Miami International Map Fair. Historical Museum of Southern Florida, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami. One of the largest annual map fairs, and one which attracts dealers from around the U.S., as well as some overseas dealers. Events, lectures, exhibits, and the opportunity to bring maps for a free appraisal make this a highlight event of the year for antique map collectors.

February 9-10, San Francisco. The San Francisco Antiquarian Book, Print and Paper Fair. San Francisco Concourse, 7th & Brannan St., at Showplace Square. For info call 415-551-5190.

February 15-17, Los Angeles. The 41st California International Antiquarian Book Fair.
Hyatt Regency Hotel, 2025 Ave. of the Stars. 415-551-5190.

February 22-24, New York. Greenwich Village Antiquarian Book Fair. Public School 3, 490 Hudson Street, Greenwich Village. Now in its 28th year, a famous antiquarian book fair run by the Public School 3 community. For info call: 646-302-5617.

March 7-8, Arlington, Virginia. The Washington Antiquarian Book Fair. Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge, 1900 North Fort Myer Drive. For more info, call 301-654-2626.

March 14-16, St. Petersburg, Florida. The 27th Annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. The Coliseum, 535 Fourth Ave., North. Over 100 national and international dealers. For more info, contact Sarah Smith or call 727-822-3278.

March 29-30, Long Island, N.Y. The Long Island Book & Ephemera Fair. Garden City Field House, 295 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, N.Y. For more info call 603-509-2639.

March 30, Litchfield, Connecticut. Litchfield Antiquarian Bookfair. Litchfield Community Center, 421 Bantam Road, (Rte. 202), Litchfield. For more information, call 413-528-2327.

Auction Calendar

January 30, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps, & Ephemera.

January 31, London. Bloomsbury Auctions. Science & Medicine, Natural History, Travel & Topography and other Antiquarian Books.

February 1-20, Online. Old World Auctions. One of the internet's leading online auctions for antique maps and prints.

February 7, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Travel, Exploration & Natural History including Afghanistan, Central Asia & the Subcontinent.

February 17, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Bonhams. Fine Books and Manuscripts.

March 5, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera Travel, Film & Decorative Posters.

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