Antique Maps & Antique Prints News, Nov. 9, 2009
Submitted by The Antique Maps and Prints Blog
Antique Maps & Prints Meetings
November 12, Boston. 5:30 PM. Boston Public Library, Johnson Bldg., Mezzanine Conference Room. The Mapping of Africa, a presentation by Richard and Penelope Betz, antique map dealers and authors of “The Mapping of Africa: A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700“, one of the fundamental reference books on antique African maps.
November 14, New York City. 2:30 pm at New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The New York Map Society hosts a presentation by Peter Dickson, entitled The Magellan Myth: Reflections on Columbus, Vespucci and the Waldseemüller Map of 1507.
November 15, Minneapolis. 2:00 PM. Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, 2400 Third Ave. South. James Welu, director of the Worcester Art Museum, presents Vermeer’s “Mania for Maps,” which explores the significance, symbolism, and importance of maps and globes in the paintings of the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, whose work was contemporaneous with the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. For more information, call 612-870-6323.
November 17, New York City. 6:00 pm at New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, Room 227. Reception at six, program follows at 6:30 PM. The Mercator Society of the NYPL, which provides major funding for the acquisition of antique maps by the library, presents a discussion and book-signing with author Toby Lester, author of the newly-published book “The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name“. For more information, call 212-930-0934, or email Miranda Shutte.
November 19, Chicago. 5:30 PM. The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Ruggles Lounge. Author Toby Lester discusses his new book, “The Fourth Part of the World”. (See above listing).
November 19, Washington, DC. 7:00 PM. Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue, Geography and Map Division, B level. Meeting of the Washington Map Society, where Earl McElfresh discusses his study of the mapping of the Gettysburg Campaign, which forced the Confederate Army to rely on quickly-prepared, inexact maps of the local terrain. For more information, contact Dennis Gurtz, or call 301-926-1743.
November 20, Milwaukee, WI.
A symposium at the American Geographical Society Library, located at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, entitled Korean maps in the 19th Century: the Korean National Treasure /Daedong Yeojido/. For more information, contact Angie Cope.
November 24, Cambridge, England. 5:30 PM. Emmanuel College, Harrods Room, St. Andrew’s Street. Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography presents Dr. Frances Willmoth of Jesus College speaking on Fens Maps and Moore’s Mapp. The seminar is followed by refreshments. For more information, email Sarah Bendall.
November 24, Oxford, England. 5:00 PM. University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Professor Pietro Corsi presents The Map of the Kingdom: The Italian Geological Survey, 1860-2000. This lecture is part of the Oxford Seminars in Cartography, 17th Annual Series. For more information, email Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library.
December 3, London. 5:00 PM, Warburg Institute, University of London, Woburn Square. Maps & Society Programme. As part of this series of public lectures in the history of cartography, Dr Carla Lois (Universidad de Buenos Aires; Universidad Nacional de La Plata) presents Toponymic Landscapes: Ways of Seeing Patagonia in Early Argentinean Maps Refreshments follow the presentation, which is free and open to all. For more information call +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 or email Tony Campbell.
Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs
November 14, Boston. Boston Book, Paper, & Ephemera Show. Radisson Hotel, 200 Stuart Street. Tel. 617-482-1800.
December 5-6, Pasadena, CA. Pasadena Book Fair. 300 East Green Street. Tel. 209-358-3134.
Through November 30, Online. 7th Virtual Map Fair.
Auction Calendar
November 10, London. Sotheby’s. Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History.
November 20, Online. Old World Auctions. Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics.
December 1, Oxford. Bonhams. Printed Books, Maps, and Manuscripts.
December 3, New York. Bloomsbury Auctions. The De Orbe Novo Collection: Exploration in the New World, 1495-1623.
December 3, New York. Swann Galleries. Maps and Atlases, Books with Plates, Historical Prints, Travel Books, and Ephemera.
December 4, New York. Christies. Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, including Americana.
December 9, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books and Maps.
Antique Map & Print Exhibitions
Through December 31, Savannah, GA. Savannah College of Art and Design, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Mapping the Past: A Selection of Antique Cartography from the Newton Collection. An exhibition focusing on antique maps depicting North America, Great Britain and the world, including rare maps from the first atlas depicting the Americas.
Through January 1, 2010, Mystic, Connecticut. An exhibition at Mystic Seaport entitled Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark, The Quivira Collection. A traveling exhibit, on loan from a private collection, including over 30 important antique maps, books, and illustrations covering the period from 1550-1800.
Through March 31, 2010, Mason, Texas. Rare Maps of America, an exhibition staged by the Mason Square Museum, features important antique maps dating back to the 16th century. The focus is on early maps of Texas.
Through May 9, 2010. Texas. Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps. A major travelling exhibition of five hundred years of maps of Texas.
Permanent Exhibit, Jacksonville, Florida. Jacksonville Public Library, 303 N. Laura Street. The Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, featuring antique maps of Florida and beyond.
Permanent Exhibit, Tampa, Florida. Touchton Map Gallery. 801 Old Water Street. 400 Years of Florida Maps 1513-1913. View the immense changes in Florida mapping over the last four centuries.
Permanent Exhibit, Vienna. The Globe Museum, at the Austrian National Library, Palais Mollard, Herrengasse 9. The Globe Museum, the only one of its kind in the world, dedicated exclusively to globes (terrestrial and celestial) and related instruments, such as armillary spheres, planetaria, and telluria.
Permanent Exhibit, Washington, DC. The first map to name America. The 1507 Waldseemüller “World Map”is the centerpiece antique map at the exhibit Exploring the Early Americas at the Library of Congress. Other items rotate in this remarkable exhibition of rare and priceless antique maps. Staged in the Jefferson Building of the library.
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