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Chronicle for 1997-1998

Compiled by Tony Campbell

The information supplied by National Representatives has been supplemented from other sources. Readers

are urged to send information, press releases, exhibition catalogues, etc. directly to the Chronicle Editor, Imago

Mundi, The British Library Map Library, 96 Euston Road, St Pancras, London NW1 2DB, UK, or via Internet

([email protected]) so that the next Chronicle is as complete as possible.

1. PERSONAL NEWS

E. Bos-Rietdijk, retired as Curator of Maps, the Maritiem Museum 'Prins Hendrik', Rotterdam, and was succeeded by Sjoerd de Meer.

Cao Wanru, chief editor of the 'Atlas of Ancient Maps in China', died in March 1997.

Antoine De Smet, head of the Map Room at the Bibliotheque Royale Albert ler, Brussels, Belgium, from 1936 to 1974, died 28 December 1997, aged 88. The Album Antoine De Smet (Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences, Bruxelles, 1974), celebrated his retirement. See the obituary on p. 193.

Ralph Ehrenberg, Chief, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, was the Mitchell Library Scholar in Residence, Sydney, New South Wales, in March 1997.

Roger Fairclough retired in September 1997. He had been Map Librarian at Cambridge University Library since 1958. He is succeeded by Anne Taylor, formerly of the British Library Map Library.

Anne Hart, Head of Memorial University of New- foundland's Centre for Newfoundland Studies, which includes the pre-1900 maps of Newfoundland and Labrador, retired in December 1997.

Francis Herbert, Curator of Maps at the Royal Geographical Society and Imago Mundi's bibliographer, was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Society.

Roger Herve, Conservateur in the Departement des Cartes et Plans, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, died in November 1997. He was born in 1904. He was known for his work on Renaissance cartography and the plans of French forests. See the obituary on p. 193.

Egon Klemp, Head of the Kartenabteilung of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin retired on 29 November 1996. He had previously been Head of the Kartenabteilung of the Deutschen Staatsbibliothek (East Berlin) since 1956.

Kate Olsen, Map Curator, Cartographic Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, resigned in February 1997 and has been succeeded by Michela Turnbull [no relation to the library's founder] in March 1997.

Robert Richardson was appointed Chief, Cartographic and Architectural Branch, United States National Archives

222 and Records Administration, in June 1996.

John Snyder, author of a number of works on map projections, died 28 April 1997, aged 71. See The Portolan 38, p. 4.

Lajos Stegena, historian of Hungarian cartography, died 16 February 1997. For an obituary by Istvan Klinghammer see Magyar foldmeresi, terkepeszti es taverzeke- lesi tarsasag, 4 (1997), p. 46.

Roderick Webster, organizer of the exhibition on celestial cartography for the 1993 Chicago History of Cartography conference, died 31 July 1997, aged 81.

Prizes and Awards: Philip J. Stern won the 1997 Ristow Prize of the

Washington Map Society for cartographic history and map librarianship, for 'Not Withstanding the Efforts of the Ancients and the Wishes of the Moderns: Antiquity, Authority and Cartography in the Origins of the Modern British Exploration of Africa'. The essay was published in The Portolan, 40. Stephen Tseng-hsin Chang received an Honorable Mention (and future publication in The

Portolan) for 'The Portuguese Maritime Discoveries along the South-East Coast of China in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century: a Cartographic View, 1513-1550'.

Norman Thrower was awarded the IMCoS-Helen Wallis Award for 1997.

Research Fellowships: Karen C. Pinto (Department of History, Columbia

University). 'Ways of seeing: the world in the medieval Muslim cartographical imagination' (J. B. Harley Research Fellow, London).

James C. Robertson (Department of History, Univer- sity of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston), 'Maps, surveyors and surveying: framing the initial English settlement in Jamaica' (J. B. Harley Research Fellow, London).

Stephanie Roper (University of Kansas), 'Paper con- quests: early modern English maps of North America as promotional tools' (John Carter Brown Library, Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow).

Jill Shefrin (independent researcher, Toronto), 'Maps as educational aids in the teaching of geography to children in England, 1760-1820' (J. B. Harley Research Fellow, London).



Doctorates (awarded 1995- ): (This is a new section. Please send details of any other post-1994 doctorates in the history of cartography, for inclusion in next year's volume.)

Lisa Blansett, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of English Literature, Summer 1995. 'Cartographies: cultural space and cartographic signs in British fiction, 1700-1814'.

Graham Burnett, University of Cambridge, Depart- ment of History and Philosophy of Science, 1997. 'El Dorado on paper: traverse surveys and the geographical construction of British Guiana, 1803-1844'.

Giselle Margaret Byrnes, University of Auckland, Department of History, 1995. 'Inventing New Zealand: surveying, science, and the constraints of cultural space, 1840s-1890s'.

Olivier Chapuis, Sorbonne, Paris, 8 November 1997. 'Charles-Francois Beautemps-Beaupre (1766-1854) et la naissance de l'hydrographie moderne (1750-1850)'.

Henk A. M. van der Heijden, Leuven University, Faculty of Letters, 2 December 1996. 'Oude kaarten der Nederlanden 1548-1794. Historische beschouwing, kaart- beschrijving, commentaar'.

Yolande Hodson, Birkbeck College, University of London, Faculty of Science, 1995. 'The Ordnance Survey Popular Edition one-inch map 1919-1942: a cartographic anatomy'.

Pellervo Kokkonen, University of Helsinki, Depart- ment of Geography, May 1997. 'Practice of marine cartography and the Russian representation of the Baltic Sea in the eighteenth century'. [Published in Fennia 175 (1997): 1, 1-96.]

Carme Montaner, University of Barcelona, Depart- ment of Human Geography, 1995. 'Topographic mapping in Catalonia: from private initiatives to the regional administrative projects (1833-1941).'

Victoria Morse, University of California, Berkeley, Medieval History, 1996. 'Church, society, and individual in the works of Opicino de Canistris'.

Francesc Relafio, European University Institute, Department of History and Civilisation, Florence, 1997. 'The idea of Africa within myth and reality: cosmographic discourse and cartographic science in the late middle ages and early modern Europe'.

Susan Schulten, University of Pennsylvania, Depart- ment of History, 1995. 'The transformation of world geography in American life, 1880-1950'.

In addition: John H. Andrews has been awarded a M. Sc. from Trinity College, Dublin, for his work on 'Organising wonder: map-philosophical issues in the writings of Denis Wood'. A copy of the thesis may also be consulted in the Map Library, British Library.

2. CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS

Details of forthcoming meetings, and of individual talks (which are not noted below), are included in the History of Cartography Web Calendar, see: < http://www.cyberia. com/pages/jdocktor >. The historical calendar for 1998 is at: < http://www.cyberia.com/pages/jdocktor/1998.htm >.

Amman, Department of Antiquities of Jordan, 'The Madaba mosaic map centenary 1897-1997: travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad Period', 7-9 April 1997.

Arnhem, [Provincial Government Building, autumn meeting of the Working Group on the History of Cartography of the Dutch Cartographic Association, 14 November 1997, 'Cartography of the Province of Gelder- land'].

Barcelona, Institut Cartografic de Catalunya, 9th course on the history of cartography, 'La cartograffa iberoamericana', 23-27 February 1998.

Bergamo Alta, Palazzo della Ragione. International conference, 'Culture dell'Alterita: il territorio africano e le sue rappresentazioni', including a session 'La rappresentazioni cartografiche', 2-4 October 1997.

Bratislava, [Slovak National Archives, 3rd National Conference on the History of Slovakian Cartography], 24- 25 April 1997. (The papers were published in Historicke mapy. Zbornik z vedeckej konferencie, Bratislava, 1997.)

Budapest, 16th International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), 'Old maps in the heart of Europe', 26-29 September 1997.

Chapel Hill, N.C., 'The southeast in early maps: a map conference in memory of William Paterson Cumming and in honor of Elizabeth Chandler Cumming', co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina's North Carolina Collection and the North Caroliniana Society, 3-4 October 1997. (The new edition of Cumming's opus The Southeast in Early Maps, revised and enlarged by Louis De Vorsey, is due to appear in May 1998.)

Colchester, History Data Service, Data Archive, Uni- versity of Essex, 'Mapping the past: a workshop on computer-assisted mapping for historians', co-organized with the Association for History and Computing, 22-26 September 1997.

Coventry, Centre for British and Comparative Studies, University of Warwick, Fifth Warwick Seminar and Conference on British Cultural Studies, 'Britain explored: Britons exploring-mapping textual spaces', 7-13 Decem- ber 1997.

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Project Pont, 2nd Seminar: 'More questions than answers?' 29 Novem- ber 1997.

Gotha, Forderkreises Perthes-Stiftung, 17 June 1997, colloquium 'Faszination Geographie'.

Leiden, [Municipal Archives, spring meeting of the Working Group on the History of Cartography of the Dutch Cartographic Association, 11 April 1997, 'Urban mapping'].

Komorowo, [Centre of the Topographical Service of the Polish Army, '75th anniversary of the Topographical Service of the Polish Army'], 15-16 November 1996.

Krakow, [Commission on Rural Planning and Archi- tecture, Polish Academy of Sciences, session on utilizing the Austrian topographical surveys of Galicia (1772-1918) to measure environmental change], 22 November 1996.

Krak6w, [Tourist Commission, Polish Tourist Society, 'Mountains in early cartography'], 7 November 1996.

Liege, XXth International Congress of the History of Science, 20-26 July 1997, including sessions on geography and cartography.

Lisbon, Arquivos Nacionais, Torre do Tombo, the 17th International Conference on the History of Cartography, organized by the Comissao Nacional para as Comemor- acoes dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, the Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical and Imago Mundi, and preceded by a meeting of the International Society for Curators of Early Maps (ISCEM), 6-10 July 1997. (For a report, see p. 189.)

London, British Museum, 'The Madaba map 100 years on', 12 June 1997.

London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Univer- sity of London, 'Paper landscapes: maps, texts and the construction of space, 1500-1700', an interdisciplinary conference, 18-19 July 1997. 223



Melbourne, Ormond College, University of Mel- bourne, Australian Map Circle 25th Annual Conference, 'Maps old and new', 2-5 February 1997.

Miami, Historical Museum of Southern Florida, 'Fifth Annual International Miami Map Fair', with a panel discussion on 'Theft & security of historic maps' and a keynote address by Guinter Schilder, 6-8 February 1998.

Moscow, ['First All Russia Conference on Cartogra- phy'], including a Session on 'Cartography of the Russian state: heritage and present situation' with 8 papers on the

history of cartography, 7-10 October 1997. Oxford, St Hugh's College, a 'Celebration of Helen

Wallis', 12 April 1997. Paris, Icole pratique des Hautes Etudes, a series of ten

two-hour lectures by Catherine Bousquet-Bressolier on 'Histoire et principes de la representation de l'espace (XVe-XVIIe siecles)', from 19 November 1997.

Paris, Musee de la Marine, Journeee d'etude sur l'histoire de la cartographie marine, 9 December 1997, organized by the Comite francais de cartographie and the Academie de marine. The papers will appear in Bulletin du Comite franCais de cartographie.

Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 'Sur-

veying the record: North American scientific exploration to 1900', 14-16 March 1997.

Prague, Narodni technick6 muzeum, 18th National

Symposium on the History of Geodesy and Cartography in the Czech Republic, 18 November 1997. (The papers of the 15th-17th symposia were published as 'Z dejin geod6zie a kartografie 9', in Rozpravy Ndrodniho technickeho muzea v Praze 150 (Prague, 1997).

St. John's, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 37th annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries, held in co-operation with the Hakluyt Society, 14-17 August 1997.

Stockholm, International Cartographic Congress, 22- 27 June 1997.

Trapani, Centro di Cultura Scientifica 'Ettore Major- ana' Erice, symposium, 'Cartografia storica negli studi sul

paesaggio: questioni metodologiche e strumenti', 13-14 November 1997, organized by the Archivio di Stato di

Trapani. Warsaw, [Commission on Historical Geography, Polish

Academy of Sciences, conference on the surviving 18th

century cartographical and textual materials for maps by Karol de Perthees], 25 November 1996.

Warsaw, [Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of the

History of Science, The XVIIIth all-Polish Conference of Historians of Cartography, 'Cartography of the Kingdom of Poland 1815-1915'], 21-22 November 1997.

Warsaw, [State Geological Institute, meeting commem-

orating the 45th anniversary of the 1:50,000 geological map of Poland], 13 December 1996.

Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 'Issues and events in twentieth-century cartography: a planning meeting to define the scope and content of volume six of the History of Cartography', 9-11 October 1997.

Meeting organized by David Woodward and Mark Monmonier.

Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 'Geography and Map Division centennial celebration', held in con-

junction with the annual meetings of the Philip Lee

Phillips Society and the Center for Geographic Informa-

224 tion, 20-22 November 1997.

3. INSTITUTIONAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Austrian Geographical Society, Vienna. (1) The library and map collection moved to the Austrian State Archive in autumn 1997. The new address is: c/o Osterreichisches Staatsarchiv, Bibliothek, Nottendorfer- gasse 2, A-1030 Wien. (2) A History of Cartography section of the Cartographic Commission of the Austrian Geographical Society was established in November 1997 with Johannes Dorflinger as Chairman. The address is: Osterreichische Geographische Gesellschaft, Kartogra- phische Kommission, Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, A- 1070, Wien. Email: [email protected].

Beijing. An institute of Chinese cartography is to be established in the Peking University Library during 1998.

Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The Retrocon- version of the cartographic records continues. 12,000 descriptions, held in BN-Opaline, can be interrogated via the BNF's web site: < http://www.bnf.fr >.

British Library Map Library. (1) The Map Library moves to the new British Library building in summer 1998, re-opening in August after a four-week closure. The new address will be: British Library Map Library, 96 Euston Road, St Pancras, London NW1 2DB. Email addresses will remain the same (for general queries: [email protected]), and telephone and fax numbers are likely to be unchanged. Note, however, that material stored out- side the library and that held in other departments (Manuscripts, Oriental and India Office Collections) may be unavailable until early 1999. Intending visitors are advised to contact the Map Library for details. (2) 'The British Library Map Catalogue on CD-ROM' is being published in Spring 1998. Its 190,000 records include the three catalogues of printed maps and the 1844-1861 catalogue of manuscript maps.

Caert-Thresoor Award. A new annual award has been established to promote the study of the history of cartography of the Netherlands. Those applying should be researchers in the Netherlands or Flanders who are not professionally involved in the subject and who have published their articles in Caert-Thresoor (see issue 16, 1997, of that journal, p. 23).

Cartographica Helvetica. An 8-page index by Markus Oehrli to issues 1-15 was published in 1997.

Cartographic Journal. A cumulative index for Volumes 1-33 (1964-1996) is to be published in 1998, both as a 160-page book and as a DOS-based flat ASCII file.

Definition of a map. John H. Andrews's 'What was a map? The lexicographers reply'-issued in Cartographica 33, 4 (1996, [i.e. 1998]): 1-11-has been posted to the Web < http://www.usm.maine.edu/-maps/essays >.

Great Britain Historical GIS Project. For the past three years the project, based at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and led by Humphrey Southall, has been constructing a computer- ized record of the changing administrative boundaries of Britain. A new grant from the Pilgrim Trust will enable the project to map the ancient parishes of England and Wales, working backwards from the early 19th century to the 17th. A link will be made to the Exeter University project of Roger Kain and Richard Oliver. See: < http:// www.geog.qmw.ac.uk/gbhgis >.

History of Cartography Project. Volume 2, Book 3, Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies, edited by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis, is to be published in autumn 1998. Work is intensifying on Volume 3, 'Cartography in the



European Renaissance'. A planning meeting was held about Volume 6 (the Twentieth Century), see Washing- ton, D.C. under 'Conferences and Meetings'.

Lecture Series. Demetrio Charalambous gave, April- July 1997, at the Centro de Graduados en Historia 'Santa Maria de los Buenos Aires', Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, the first lecture series on the history of cartography in Hispanoamerica.

Library of Congress. In June 1997, the Geography and Map Division announced the inauguration of a programme to scan electronically its collection of 19th- century panoramic views of American cities. These will be made available on the Internet through the Library's American Memory project: < http://lcweb.loc.gov/ >, a development made possible through the donation of a file-compression technology developed by LizardTech of Santa Fe, and donations of hardware and software by Tangent Imaging and Hewlett-Packard.

Livonian Map Society of Toronto (Liivimaa Maa- kaartide Selts Torontos) was established in April 1997, with Peeter Piil as organizer.

Military Survey [of Britain] celebrated its 250 anniversary between July and December 1997 with displays, an open day and the issue of facsimile maps. The Survey dates its inception from the start of William Roy's military survey of Scotland (1747). The modern Military Survey forms part of the Royal Engineers.

National Library of Scotland. (1) The digital scan- ning of the 38 sheets of the late-16th century manuscript maps of Scotland by Timothy Pont has been completed. (2) The Bartholomew Archive is being listed by John C. Bartholomew, in liaison with a researcher funded for one year by the NLS's Ratcliff Fund.

Newberry Library. Fellowships are once more being offered at the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, thanks to the generosity of Arthur Holzheimer. One to three Fellowships will be awarded each year, for projects related to the history of cartography or focused on cartographical materials in the Library's collection. These will range from two weeks to two months, at a rate of $800 per month. Applicants must have a doctorate or have completed all but their dissertation. The annual deadline is 1 March. Details are on the Library's homepage < http://www.newberry.org >.

Northern Ohio Map Society is the new name of the Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Map Interest Group.

Rand McNally Wall Map Contest. The search for the oldest wall map of the world in a school's possession produced a British-made map of 1886-93. See IM 49, p.192a.

State Library of Victoria. A start has been made on cataloguing the map collection on to the general library system, beginning with the maps of Victoria.

University Library, Amsterdam. The former Map Librarian, Albert H. Sijmons has completed the work of tracing the atlases in the card catalogues. The details have now been added to the online catalogue. About 500 of the 5000 atlases were published before 1800.

University of Vienna. The ['Catalogue of maps published by the Nuremberg firm J. B. Homann- Homann Heirs-Fembo'] was completed in the Depart- ment of History by Markus Heinz, under the direction of Johannes Dorflinger. A second project on the same firm, also sponsored by the Fonds zur Forderung der wis- senschaftlichen Forschung, started in summer 1997.

U.S. National Archives. (1) In October 1997, the first group of digitized images of some of the National Archives and Records Administration's most significant documents

were made publicly available on the Internet. Maps and charts feature among the first 5,300, of the 120,000 documents that should be released during 1998. For the National Archive Information Locator (NAIL) see: < http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html >. (2) The early MS surveys of the U.S. Coast Survey-the 'T' (or Topographic) sheets and the 'H' (or Hydrographic) sheets-are being transferred to the Cartographic and Architectural Branch of the National Archives.

William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, celebrates its 75th anniversary in 1998. A commemorative volume, One Hundred and One Treasures from the Collections of the William L. Clements Library, has been issued, which includes a number of maps.

World Directory of Map Collections. The Section of Geography and Map Libraries of the International Federation of Library Associations is preparing a fourth edition of this work, edited by Olivier Loiseaux of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Publication is expected in 1999.

4. EXHIBITIONS

Increasingly, the World Wide Web is being used to mount exhibition images or descriptions. The best place to locate these is via Oddens's Bookmarks < http://kartoserver. frw.ruu.nl/html/staff/oddens/oddens.htm > under the section entitled Maps and Atlases-Old (Universe/World or Countries). For details of current and forthcoming exhibitions see: < http://www.cyberia.com/pages/jdock tor/exhibit.htm >. The historical calendar of exhibitions which closed in 1998 is at: < http://www.cyberia.com/ pages/jdocktor/1998ex.htm >.

Aix-en-Provence, Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer, 13 November 1997-31 January 1998. 'Les Villes fleurs', a selection of plans issued by the Dep6t des fortifications des Colonies of the French factories in India (17th-18th centuries). CD-ROM with the more significant of the 250 exhibits.

Amsterdam, Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, 12 October 1996-14 April 1997. 'Overwintering of Willem Barentsz on Nova Zembla'.

Arlington, University of Texas, 1 October 1997-15 March 1998. Display of maps from the recently received Virginia Garret collection.

Athens, Melas Mansion, 16 May-13 June 1997. ['Cartography of the Hellenic space'], organized by the National Bank of Greece Educational Foundation.

Bangkok, World Trade Center and Peninsula Plaza, August 1997. 'The mapping of the world'-a combined exhibition of maps of Southeast Asia and Swiss watches.

Bath, the American Museum, until 2 November 1997. 'Give me a map: 15th and 16th century maps and engravings from the Dallas Pratt Collection of Historical Maps'.

Berlin, Finnland-Institut in Deutschland fur Kultur, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft, 27 November-19 December 1997. 'Finnland in Wirkungsbereich der Ostsee und Deutschlands', organized by the Department of History, Jyvaskyla University and the Eero and Erkki Fredrikson Foundation. Catalogue (64 pp., ills).

Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 23 August-30 September 1997. 'Die Linden. Vom kurfurstlichen Reit- weg zur hauptstadtischen Allee'. Catalogue by Steffi Mittenzwei (83 pp., ills).

Bern, Schweizerischen Alpinen Museum, 5 April-3 August 1997, and Vienna, Bundesamt fur Eich- und Vermessungswesen, 10 September-29 October 1997. 225



'Farbe, Licht und Schatten. Die Entwicklung der Relief- Landkarten seit 1660', organized by the Schweizerisches Alpines Museum, Bern. Accompanying book: Farbe, Licht und Schatten: Die Entwicklung der Reliefkartographie seit 1660, ed. Madelena Cavelti-Hammer, Hans-Uli Feldmann and Markus Oehrli (46 pp., with 77 ills; special publication of Cartographica Helvetica, no. 13, 1996).

Bern, Schweizerischen Bundesarchiv, 14 May-18 July 1997. 'Netze-Reseaux. Verkehr-Telekommunikation- Energie. Der Staat zwischen Laisser-faire und Interven- tion'. Catalogue (163 pp.). ISBN 3-9520503-4-2 (see Cartographica Helvetica 16, 1997, p. 48).

Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, 18 December 1997-19 April 1998. 'Arctic-Antarctic'.

Bonn, Universitatsbibliothek, 14 March-18 May 1997. 'Imagines et Tabulae. Europaische Stadtebilder und Kartentafeln an der Schwelle zur Neuzeit'. Catalogue by Werner Kreuer (95 pp., ills).

Bonn, Wissenschaftszentrum, 16 May-7 July 1997. 'Imago Germaniae-Das Deutschlandbild der Kartenma- cher in funf Jahrhunderten', organized by the Map Library of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Catalogue by Lothar Zogner (80 pp., ills).

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Map Collection, until 30 September 1997. 'Maps of steel: early railroad maps [of the US]'.

Cambridge, Harvard University, Pusey Library, 9 May- June 1997. 'Charting the way to Japan'.

Chicago, Newberry Library, 1 February-29 March 1997. 'Theater of the world'.

Compiegne, Musee national de la Voiture et du Tourisme, 15 April-30 August 1997. 'Le voyage en France, du maitre de poste au chef de gare, 1740-1914'. Catalogue (175 pp., ills).

Corte, Musee d'anthropologie de la Corse, 19 June-22 December 1997. 'Mesure de l'ile: le plan terrier de la Corse

(1770-1795)'. Catalogue (295 pp., ills). Cremona, Biblioteca Statale, 6-20 September 1997,

and Bergamo, Universita degli Studi, 22 September-12 October 1997. 'Una geografia dell'Altrove: l'Atlante d'Africa di Arcangelo Ghisleri'. Catalogue by Emanuela Casti Moreschi and Giorgio Mangani (197 pp., ills).

tvora, see under Lisbon. Gdanisk, Gdafisk Library, Polish Academy of Sciences,

21 June-31 July 1996. ['Treasures collected over centuries'], celebrating the library's 400th anniversary.

Gorlitz, Germany, Museum, 20 April-11 June 1997. 'Stadt-Land-Flug. Die schonsten Landkarten aus dem Besitz der Oberlausitzischen Bibliothek der Wissenschaf- ten', organized by Stadtische Kunstsammlungen.

Gotha, Kartographisches Museum Gotha, 17 June-31 August 1997. 'Patagonien, das Land wo die Erde aufhort'.

Himeji, Japan, Hy6go Prefectural Museum of History, 26 April-8 June 1997. 'Umi no michi riku no michi: Korozu to kaidozu' [Sea and land routes: nautical charts and road maps]. Catalogue (64 pp., ills).

Hong Kong, Museum, from 28 July 1997. 'History through maps', organized by the Hong Kong Provisional Urban Council and the National Library of China, and

including Pingjiangtu (the first map of a Chinese city) and

Yujitu (dating from 1136 and the oldest map using a grid and scale).

Jyvaskyla, Finland, Department of History, University of Jyvaskyla, 2-8 August 1997. (1) 'Finlandia Latina Chartographica: Finlandia in tabulis geographicis Latine delineata', co-organized by the Eero and Erkki Fredrikson Foundation during the international conference of lati-

226 nists. Catalogue (50 pp., ills). [The exhibition will move to

Italy and Germany in 1998]. (2) Various multi-lingual Web exhibitions: 'The French Sanson family as cartogra- phers of Finland in the 17th century'; 'The image of Carelia in maps'; 'Travelling in Finland and Sweden in the 18th century' -see: < http://www.jyu.fi/tdk/hum/ historia/carta/index.html >.

Klostergut Paradies, [1997]. 'Sammlung Rohr-Alte Landkarten des Kantons Schaffhausen'.

Kobe, Japan, City Museum, 20 September-19 October 1997. 'Chfigoku no kochizu' [Early Chinese cartography]. Catalogue (4 pp., ills).

Konigswinter-Heisterbacherrott, Haus Schlesien- Museum fur Landeskunde, 17 August-13 October 1996;

Gorlitz, Schlesisches Museum, March-April 1997. 'Die Grafschaft Glatz zwischen Bohmen und Schlesien: Eine Ausstellung historischer Landkarten'. Catalogue (56 pp., ills).

Kozani, Cultural Centre. ['The two Rigas Pheraios Maps-the Rigas maps from the Parliament Library and the Kozani Library'], organized by the Hellenic Carto- graphic Society and the Organisation for the Cultural Capital of Europe, Thessaloniki 1997.

Leiden, Municipal Archives, 2-25 April 1997. 'Leiden in kaart'.

Leiden, University Library, 2 February-9 April 1998. 'HET KOSTTE MU ... 25 Jaar Aanwinsten van de Collectie Bodel Nijenhuis', celebrating the bicentenary of the birth in 1797 of Johannes T. Bodel Nijenhuis. Catalogue (61pp., ills).

Lisbon. The following six exhibitions (one in 1~vora) were held on the occasion of the 17th International Conference on the History of Cartography, 5-10 July 1997. Each exhibition had a fully illustrated catalogue in matching format. For commentary by R. W. Bremner, see IMCoS Journal 71, 1997, pp. 65-67. They comprised: Torre do Tombo: 'Tesouros da cartografia Portuguesa'; Cor- doaria Nacional, Belem: 'Cartografia e diplomacia no Brasil do seculo XVIII'; Cordoaria Nacional, Bel6m: 'Fronteiras de Africa'; Museu da Cidade: 'Cartografia de Lisboa: Seculos XVII a XX'; Mosteiro dos Jer6nimos, Belem: 'Macau a cidade e o Porto'; Biblioteca Puiblica e Arquivo Distrital, tvora: 'Lugares, regi6es e mapas antigos'. See Conference Report on p. 189.

Ljubljana, National and University Library, 20 May-30 June 1997. ['Slovenian literature and maps of Slovenian territory']. Catalogue by Veselin Misskovic (37 pp., ills).

London, British Library, May 1997-February 1998, a display featuring the British elements of the 'Mercator Atlas of Europe' and related contemporary and earlier maps.

London, London Transport Museum, [April]-7 Sep- tember 1997. 'The joy of maps'.

Lyon, Archives municipales, 20 November 1997-22 March 1998. 'Forma urbis: les plans generaux de Lyon du 16eme au 20eme si&ecle'. Catalogue (250 pp., ills).

Madrid, Casa de la Panaderia, 1-10 November 1997. 'Tres siglos de cartografia madrilefia, 1622-1929'. Catalo-

gue (174 pp., ills). Montreal, St. Helen's Island, Stewart Museum, Sep-

tember 1997-April 1998. 'En route to the New World: Caboto and the Italian navigators on their journey to the Americas'.

Palaiseau, France, lcole polytechnique, 11 October 1997-15 February 1998. 'Les ingenieurs geographes et la cartographie'.

Pardubice, Czech Republic, Statni okresni archiv, 1-31 October 1997. 'Pardubicko no mapach a planech' [Pardu- bice region on maps and plans]. Catalogue by Vaclav



Hovorka, Vladimir Hruby, Jana Poddana (45 pp. and a separate volume of 21 colour plates).

Paris, Archives Nationales, May-July 1997. 'La Vie amenagee: l'oeuvre des ingenieurs des Ponts-et-Chaus- sees 1747-1997', celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Ecole nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussees. Accompanying book by Antoine Picon and Marc Desportes (222 pp., ills); 15 October 1997-19 January 1998, 'Histoire de forets: la foret franqaise du 13e au 20e siecle'. Catalogue (158 pp., ills).

Portland, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine, August 1997-8 January 1998. 'Maine wilderness trans- formed: timber, sporting, and exploitation of the Moose- head Lake region'. See: < http://www.usm.maine.edu/ .maps/exhibit3 >.

Prague, Statni oblastni archiv, 20 February-11 March 1996. 'Stfednf cechy na starych mapach a planech' [Central Bohemia on old maps and plans]. Catalogue.

Providence, Rhode Island, John Carter Brown Library, 9 May-15 September 1997, and New York, Equitable Gallery, 22 January-4 April 1998. 'The Dutch in the Americas 1600-1800: rare prints, maps, and illustrated books from the John Carter Brown Library'. Catalogue by Wim Klooster. ISBN 0-916617-50-5 (cloth); 0-916617- 51-3 (paper).

Sagamihara, Japan, City Museum, 26 July-31 August 1997. 'Ezu kara chikeizu e: Kindai chikeizu no tanj6 to hatten' [From early maps to modem topographical maps: the appearance and development of the modem topographical map]. Catalogue (110 pp., ills).

San Marino, California, Huntington Library, 31 Jan- uary-23 August 1998. 'Passages to Asia: Europe and the East in the sixteenth century'.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, September 1997-June 1998, travelling exhibition. 'Descripci6n geografica de las Islas Canarias [1740-1743] de Don Antonio Riviere'. Catalogue (302 pp., ills).

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Museo Militar Regional de Canarias, [1997]. 'Tenerife a traves de la cartografia (1588-1899)'. Catalogue (236 pp., ills).

Santorini, Greece, Bellonion Cultural Centre, 23 August-30 September 1997. ['Historical maps of the archipelago'].

Stein am Rhein, Switzerland, Museum Lindwurm, 6 April-29 July 1997. 'Die Region Stein am Rhein im Bild alter Karten und Plane des 18. Jahrhunderts'. Catalogue by Christian Birchmeier (72 pp., ills).

Thessaloniki, Museum of Byzantine Civilization, 29 October 1997-31 January 1998. 'Byzantine medieval Cyprus', including maps from the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.

Tokyo, Mitsui Bunko Library, 5 April-I June 1997. 'Godozu to ichiranzu' [Maps of the five main routes in Japan and some oblique views]. Catalogue (6 pp., ills).

Valencia, Centro Cultural de Beneficencia, 16 April-I June 1997. 'Cartografia valenciana: siglos XVI-XIX'. Catalogue (264 pp., ills).

Valencia, Sala d'Exposicions de la Universitat, Decem- ber 1996-January 1997. 'Cel i terra: l'art dels cart6grafs a la Universitat de Valencia'. Catalogue (158 pp., ills).

Vienna, Bezirksmuseum Brigittenau, June-October 1997. 'Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)-Geschichte der Landvermessung'. Leaflet.

Vienna, Museum fur Volkerkunde, 4 December 1997- 1 March 1998. 'Die Entdeckung der Siidsee im Spiegel alter Karten, Ansichten und Reiseberichte'. Catalogue by

Hermann Miickler and Ingfried Schuitz-Muller (14 pp., ills). ISBN 3-901005-07-2.

Warsaw, Central Military Library, April-September 1996. ['Warsaw in the history of cartography of the Polish army 1596-1996'].

Washington, D.C., American Institute of Architects Headquarters Gallery, 15 January-20 March 1998. 'Washington through two centuries in maps and images'.

Washington, D.C., Cultural Affairs Division, Embassy of Canada, 12 June-25 July 1997. 'From John Cabot to Samuel Hearn', from the Rare Book Collection of the National Library of Canada.

Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, 10 June-29 November 1997. 'Cele- brating the Portuguese communities in America: a cartographic perspective'. Brochure.

Washington, D.C., Library of Congress. 'American treasures of the Library of Congress', a rotating exhibition, opened 1 May 1997 and including 21 items from the Geography and Map Division. Catalogue.

Washington, D.C., National Postal Museum, until 23 July 1997. 'Maps on stamps'.

Wellington, National Library Gallery, 21 November 1997-15 February 1998. 'The mapmaker's art in Aotearoa: celebrating the release of the New Zealand Historical Atlas'. Brochure.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Diggs Gallery, 6 June-30 August 1997. 'Africa: a continent revealed', celebrating the 50th anniversary of the CIA and featuring material from the Directorate of Central Intelligence and Michael B. Toth. [In 1996, it had been on display in Athens, Georgia; in early 1998 it will be at the Osher Map Library, Portland, Maine.]

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa Bunko Museum, 31 July-28 September 1997. 'Koezu to kochizu' [Early maps, charts and views]. Catalogue (48 pp., ills).

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cul- tural History, 28 June-31 August 1997. 'Sekai no katachi Nippon no katachi: Watanabe Shin-ichiro kochizu kor- ekushon o chushin ni' [Images of the world and Japan: chiefly from the Shin-ichiro Watanabe cartographic collection]. Catalogue (80 pp., ills).

5. NOTABLE ACQUISITIONS

(Featuring only collections, manuscript material, and rare or bibliographically important printed atlases, maps, charts and globes.) Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library: Patten, R. New & Improved Chart of the Bahama Banks.

New York, 1825. Putnam, Rufus. Plan of Lands ... of the Ohio Company.

c.1788. MS. Six MS maps of Buffalo, New York, 1819-1829.

Arlington, University of Texas at Arlington, Special Collections Division: Virginia Garrett of Fort Worth has donated more than 900

maps, from the 16th century onwards, focusing on the Gulf of Mexico, Texas and the Greater Southwest.

Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Kartenabteilung: The library of the Gesellschaft fur Erdkunde zu Berlin,

comprising pre-1945 holdings of 40,000 books and 15,000 maps, was deposited on permanent loan.

Chicago, Newberry Library, Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography: 227



Adrichem, C. van. Theatrum terrae sanctae et biblicarum historiarum. Cologne: Birckmann, 1593.

Colton's map of the United States of America. New York, 1856. (116 X 133 cm.)

Monk's new American map. Baltimore, 1855. (148 X 155

cm.) Peck, John M. New sectional map of the state of Illinois.

New York: Colton, 1851. (103 X 70 cm.) Plat book of Council Bluffs, Iowa, area. MS 1877.

Leiden, University Library, Collectie Bodel Nijen- huis: Atlas of 50 views and plans of fortifications and sieges,

made for Gilles de Berlaymont. MS. 1570-1578. (See Caert-Thresoor 15, 1996, pp. 57-69.)

London, British Library, Map Library: Gardner W., Yeakell, T. & Gream, T. A Topographical Map

of the County of Sussex. London: Faden, 1815. (4 sheets, 2nd edition; the other known example is in the Royal Geographical Society.)

Janssonius van Waesberge, J. & G. La Guerre d'Italie, Reprdsentee en plusieurs Cartes. Amsterdam, 1702.

(Koeman Ja 21, citing only Library of Congress-with a variant imprint. The maps, dating from the 1630s and 1640s, have been updated on the plates with military information.)

Mercator, Gerard. The 'Mercator Atlas of Europe' was acquired in March 1997 from the Railways Pension Fund, thanks to a large grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The atlas contains the only surviving example of Mercator's wall map of Europe (1554), one of only four surviving examples of his wall map of the British Isles (1564) and two sections of the 1569 world map. Two manuscript maps of northern Italy are believed to be in his hand. Besides those, there are 30 maps from an early edition of Ortelius, and an unsigned map of Ancona. The atlas may well have been put together in 1570-1572 by Mercator for Werner von

Gymnich, who was then planning a European tour with his pupil the young Hereditary Prince Friedrich Karl of Cleves. Found in a Belgian bookshop in 1967, the volume was sold to the British Rail Pension Fund at

Sotheby's in 1979 and put up for sale again (unsuccess- fully) by Sotheby's on 26 November 1996. All the Mercator maps are reproduced in colour in Marcel Watelet (ed.), The Mercator Atlas of Europe (Walking Tree Press, 1998).

Price, Henry & Charles G. A New Map of the County of Monmouth. 1823. (1 inch to the mile; the other known

example is in Cambridge University Library.) Saxton, C. Yorkshire. c.1693-1694. (An unrecorded,

intermediate-probably proof-state by Philip Lea, with the views erased but before the 1694 additions, e.g. the new title).

Screen. A 'published' map screen. London: Thomas

Jefferys, c.1750. (The screen comprises an 8-sheet map of the world, surrounded by 20 circular maps (in rectangular frames), together filling precisely a four-fold screen, 180 X 256 cm. In effect, this is a flattened out world atlas, aimed at an educated English audience, with separate maps of the environs of London, Cam-

bridge and Oxford, the parts of the British Isles, the countries of Europe and the heavens. It was first advertised by George Willdey in 1721, and Jefferys was still offering it in the 1760s. Coincidentally, the only other example that could be traced was also sold in

228 1997, see under Section 6 'Printed'.)

Speed, J. The Invasions of England and Ireland. London, c.1601. (Shirley no. 239. The fourth known example.)

Thompson, G. A New Map of the Land of Promise and the Holy City of Jerusalem. London, 1795. (With side panels, 56 X 140 cm.)

New York Public Library, Map Division: Lawrence H. Slaughter collection of about 600 maps, 100

atlases and 50 books, focusing on English Colonial North America, and a pair of 18 inch (46 cm) Senex globes, was presented in May 1997.

Ottawa, National Archives of Canada: Chaviteau, Jacques (fils) & Alexandre Maupin (fils). Carte

particuliere de la Riviere de Quebec; ou le golphe de Saint Laurent. MS [Rochefort?], 1718.

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Departe- ment des Cartes et Plans: Baradelle, Jacques. Pair of 0 25 cm globes (T 1743, C

1750). (The BN already holds two smaller globes and two armillary spheres-all the work known by this Parisian instrument-maker).

Denis, Louis. Le Conducteur francais contenant les routes desservies par les nouvelles diligences, messageries & autres voitures publiques. Paris, 1776-1779. (36 fasci- cules of an uncompleted work covering the northern half of France, appearing at the rate of 12 parts per year, each with a route map.) Ge FF 20269 (1-4).

Trompe-l'oeil with a map of Portugal. 'JFC fe[cit]'. 2nd half of 18th century. Ge A 1386.

Portland, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine: Mitchell, J. Map of North America (London, 1775).

(Annotated by J. E. Hawkins in 1898 with the 1783 boundary details-see IM 49 p. 196a. For analysis by Matthew Edney, see: < http://www.usm.maine.edu/ -maps/oml >.

Sydney, State Library of New South Wales: Jones, J. Map of New South Wales and Victoria, with a

plan of Sydney. Sydney: J. Allan, 1853. (Two pocket gold-rush maps.)

MS survey of Mosman from Hunters Bay [Balmoral Beach] around Middle Head to Obelish Bay, c.1860.

(Includes information on owners before foreshore land was taken back for defence purposes.)

Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Map Collection and Globe Museum: Anich, Peter. MS map of part of the Tyrol (Telfs to

Innsbruck). c.1760. (Apparently part of the Anich- Hueber map; 20 sheets, Vienna, 1774.) Globes: Dozy, G. J. De Elsevier-Globe. Rotterdam, c.1880. 0 c.45 cm. (Terrestrial 'umbrella' globe.) Ebsworth. Tellurium with 0 7 cm terrestrial globe by J. & W. Cary. London, 1794. Three undated Islamic-Indian brass celestial globes, one with rings and one with rings and spheres, respectively 0 52, 53 & 64 cm.

Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division: Atlas-i-Keber Tercemesi [Cedid Atlas, or New Atlas].

Istanbul: [Engineering School Press], 1803. Butler, Samuel. A General Atlas of Ancient and Modern

Geography. London, 1826. (Presented in memory of Allison Coates Halaby, member of the Library's Madison

Council.)



Gustavus Sohon Collection. 12 MS maps, 14 pencil landscape sketches, and two fragements of field notes, representing the work of Sohon (1825-1903), a Ger- man immigrant working as a cartographer and artist on the Pacific Railroad and Mullan Road surveys in the Pacific Northwest during the 1850s.

Map of the Neighborhood of Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia. London: Topographical Depot, War Office, 1864. (Partly based on a MS map found on the body of Confederate General Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, killed 16 August 1864.)

Wilson, James. Pair of 13-inch (33 cm) globes. Albany, NY, 1819 & 1821. (The first purchase by the Philip Lee Phillips Society.)

6. UNUSUAL ITEMS THAT HAVE COME UP FOR SALE

(Covering the period March 1997 to February 1998. See also 'Auction block' by Ian McKay in Mercator's World-six issues per year.)

Manuscript and unique items ARABIA. Philby, Harry St John. Track of his journey along

the Red Sea coast between Al Birk and Al Lith, 9-17 February 1937. (Fair copy of the field MSS in the RGS. The scale is of '2 minutes donkey riding (say at 6km per hour)'. Christie's 10 April 1997 Lot 48.

ASTRONOMY. Six contemporary astronomical drawings in pen and ink (as marginalia to Gerardus Cremonensis, Theorica Planetarum Gerardi, Venice: Florentius de Argentina, not after May 1472). Bredford Libri Rari SA, Lugano, in catalogue of the 38th Antiquarian Book Fair (London, 1997), p. 22.

AUSTRIA. Anich, Peter. Map of the Oberinnthal region. c. 1765. (Prepared for the Anich & Hueber Atlas Tyrolensis (1774), with an autograph note by Hueber.) Dor- otheum, Vienna, November 1997. (See Notable Acquisi- tions, Vienna.) Presl, Mathias. Plan der Salzberge des Haamtes Ausse. 1709. (A keyed guide to the imperial salt mines.) Dorotheum, Vienna, November 1997.

BOSTON. Plan de la Baye, Ville, et Environs de Baston. [France, c.1755?]. Christie's, New York, 21 April 1997 Lot 106.

COMORO ISLANDS. Pley, Pieter. T. Eijlandt Ansuany. [Batavia?], 1738. Asher Rare Books, Umuiden, Nether- lands, Catalogue 27, No. 115.

DIAL. Gebhart, Johan. Ivory diptych dial, with an engraved view of Nuremberg on the lower leaf. [Nuremberg, mid-16th century?]. (This is thought to be the only known dial bearing a town view, probably based on the Liber Chronicarum.) Christie's, South Kensington, 9 April 1997 Lot 35.

ENGLISH ESTATE PLANS. Lund, John. Map of the Lordship of Birkby and part of the Lordship of Little Smeaton [Yorks]. 1759. Dominic Winter, Swindon, Wiltshire, 6 March 1997.

Yate, R. A map of an estate lying at Middleton-Scrivens [Shropshire] belonging to Mr. John Fewtrell. c.1700. Jonathan Potter, London, in catalogue of the 38th Antiquarian Book Fair (London, 1997) p. 85.

FERROL. Plano de la Rio y Puerto del Ferrol con sus Baterias y Castillos en Grande que contiene su Entrada. 1754. Sotheby's 26 June 1997 Lot 201.

HAVANA. Olmedillas, Juan de. Mapa de la Ciudad de la Habana. [Havana, c.1765]. Martayan Lan, New York, Catalogue 23, No. 90.

ISOLARIO. Isollario del Mediteraneo et colpho di Venetia. [Venice, last quarter 17th century?]. (37 half, full and double-page charts.) Christie's (Giannalisa Feltrinelli) 3 December 1997 Lot 167.

ITALIAN ESTATE PLANS. Benetti, Giambattista. Survey of the estates of the Abbazia di San Bartolo in Monestirolo, San Niccolo and Montesanto, near Ferrara. Ferrara, 2 May 1793. Christie's (Giannalisa Feltrinelli) 3 December 1997 Lot 135.

MAP CABINET. Four John Cary wall maps of the continents (1834), each backed on canvas, mounted on a sprung roller, with brass ring-pulls and ring-pull catches and release mechanism, contained in a maho- gany map cabinet with decorative side pillars and moulded plinth top (211 cm wide). Christie's, South Kensington, 25 June 1997 'Globes and Planetaria', Lot 32.

MINORCA. Plan Superior du Fort St. Philippe. . . pris par les Francais, la nuit du 27 au 28 Juin 1756. [cf IM 49, 196a.] Sotheby's 26 June 1997 Lot 204.

NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. Court, Stephen. Chart shewing the land discovered by H M Ship Investigator between September 1850 and October 1851, Robert McClure, Commander. 1854. Sotheby's, 'English Literature and History', 17 July 1997 Lot 523.

ORTELIUS. A copy of the second Servetus edition of Ptolemy (Lyons, 1541), annotated by Ortelius and with 'Abraham Ortelii & amicorum' on the title. Asher Rare Books, IJmuiden, Netherlands, Catalogue 27, No. 120.

PORTOLAN ATLAS. Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. [North-east Italy, probably Venice, c.1400]. (6 double sheets of charts, each 244 X 240 mm, folded vertically. Described as probably the oldest European atlas in private hands and the oldest complete atlas offered for sale since 1897). Sotheby's, 'Western Manuscripts and Miniatures', 17 June 1997 Lot 64. (See IM 43, p.109a).

PORTOLANO. Untitled portolano. [Northern Italy, perhaps Genoa, 3rd quarter 15th century]. (Covering the whole Mediterranean and the Atlantic coast up to Ostend. There is reference to a 1445 shipwreck. Five other versions are known.) Christie's (Giannalisa Feltrinelli) 3 December 1997 Lot 193.

Portolano con le Isole Seche et Secagli, dentro e fuora acqua. [Italian, probably Genoa, mid-17th century]. (Including 15 simplified views of ports, mainly along the northern coast of the western Mediterranean. A sea battle of 1638 is mentioned.) Christie's (Giannalisa Feltrinelli) 3 December 1997 Lot 192.

SALISBURY [Harare]. 'N. StG. U.' Plan of the Township of Salisbury. [1891]. (Included in a journal of a trek through Mashonaland; Salisbury then comprised just five streets.) Phillips, London, 13 November 1997 Lot 280.

TICONDEROGA (Fort). A Map from the landing place to Tianderago. [North America, September 1755?]. Bon- hams, London, 24 June 1997 Lot 510.

WALES. Corris, John. Plans & Surveys of Land in the Counties of Carnarvon & Anglesey, North Wales. Belonging to The Revd Mr Edwd Hughes. 1791-1792. (11 plans, together with a volume of Anglesey plans, 1821.) Philips, London, 13 November 1997 Lot 368. 229



WASHINGTON. An early land survey for Michael Sweim in Frederick County, Virginia, signed G. Washington, 9 April 1751 (when aged 19). Christie's, New York, 5 December 1997 Lot 114.

Printed AMERICA. Clouet, J. B. L. Carte d'Amerique, divisee en

ses principaux pays. Paris: Mondhare, 1776. (96 X 122

cm.) Sotheby's 26 June 1997 Lot 323.

Nolin, J. B. L'Amerique dressee sur les relations plus recentes. Paris, c.1740. (122 X 136 cm.) Sotheby's 26 June 1997 Lot 328.

Schoel, H. van. America il mondo nuovo su chiamato America. Rome, 1609. (Burden 159.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 235.

ASTRONOMY. Lubieniecki, Stanislaw. Theatrum Cometi- cum. 1666-1668. (With an inscription from the author to the Duke of Mecklenburg.) Christie's, New York, June 1997.

ATLANTIC. Nieuwe Wassende Graade Zee Kaart Over de Spaanse Zee. Amsterdam, c.1720. (Not in Koeman.) Asher Rare Books, Umuiden, Netherlands, Catalogue 27, No. 77.

BLAEU. J. Blaeu. Toonneel der Steden van de Veree- nighde Nederlanden. Amsterdam, 1649-1651. (With 7 extra maps of the Netherlands, heightened with gold and silver, with a dedicatory leaf to the Prince of Sale from the States General-a gift sent via a Moroccan envoy to Holland in 1659.) Asher Rare Books, IJmuiden, Netherlands, Catalogue 27, No. 16.

BOLOGNA. Buono [Bono], Floriano dal. Ritratto overo profilo della citta di Bologna. Bologna, 1636. (Panorama on 4 sheets, with a further five sheets with the arms of Bolognese families.) Christie's (Giannalisa Feltrinelli) 3 December 1997 Lot 245.

CHINESE. Schall von Bell, J. A. Two sections of the 8- sheet, woodcut, double stellar hemisphere map. Peking, 1634. (From the Clermont-Meerman-Phillips collections.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 178.

COPENHAGEN. Dietz, C. W. Carte over den Kongel: Residentz-stad Kiobenhavn. Copenhagen, 1769. Sothe- by's 26 June 1997 Lot 200.

COVENS & MORTIER. [Set of 6-sheet, wall maps of the four continents, only that of America dated, measuring 1.08 X 1.33 m each including the ornamental borders]. Amsterdam, 1756. Bonham's, London, 24 June 1997 Lots 17-20.

GLOBES. N.B. These are usually included in sales of scientific instruments. The following is a very selective list; for a full account see Information 24 (July 1997) issued by the Internationale Coronelli-Gesellschaft fur Globen- und Instrumentenkunde.

Hondius, H. 1627. Cel. 0 35.5 cm. Christie's, South Kensington, 26 November 1997 Lot 70.

Klinger, J. G. 1790-1792. Globe triplet, comprising Pair 0 32 cm and an armillary sphere. Christie's, South Kensington, 25 June 1997 Lot 45.

L'Isle, G. de. 1700. Pair 0 30.5 cm. Christie's, South Kensington, 25 June 1997 Lot 48.

Moxon, Joseph. c. 1690. 7 cm pocket globe in sharkskin 230 case; a presentation example for William and Mary with

their monograms. Sotheby's 'Good Clocks, Watches, etc', 6 March 1997 Lot 660.

[Murad m globes]. A gilt-brass Ptolemaic armillary sphere, overall height 41 cm, engraved by the same hand as the Murad fI globes-Christie's, King Street, 30 October 1991 Lot 139-and with the same date, 1579. Christie's, South Kensington, 9 April 1997 Lot 37.

HOLY LAND. Koller, J. G. Judaea oder das Heilige Land. [Augsburg, c.1680]. (3 sheets; not in Laor.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 128.

Zaddiq, Yaaqov ben Abraham. [Wall map of Palestine engraved by Abraham Goos. Amsterdam, 1621.] (3 sheets, lacking the southern 4th sheet; one of three examples known). Sotheby's 26 June 1997 Lot 277.

ITALY. Janssonius van Waesberge, J. & G. La Guerre d'Italie. Amsterdam: Jean & Gillis Janssons a Waes- berge, 1702. Bonham's, London, 24 June 1997 Lot 13. (See Notable Acquisitions, London).

MARITIME ATLASES. Colom, J. A. Atlas ou Colom Ardante demonstrant toutes les costes de la grand mer. Amsterdam, 1668. (cf Koeman J Col 4-an unrecorded edition.) Christie's 26 November 1997 Lot 238.

Goos, P. Zee Atlas. Amsterdam, Jacobus Robyn, 1683. (Unrecorded, cf Koeman Rob 1.) Asher Rare Books, IJmuiden, Netherlands, Catalogue 27, No. 59.

NORTH AMERICA. Eliot, J. B. Carte de Theatre de la Guerre. .. 1778. Paris: Mondhare [1778]. (Possibly the first printed map to name the United States.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 247.

Rocque, J. A set of plans and forts in America. London: Mary Ann Rocque [1765]. (2nd edn.) Bonham's, London, 24 June 1997 Lot 411.

Romans, B. A Chorographical map of the country round Philadelphia. Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, c. 1778. George Ritzlin, Highland Park, IL, Catalog 18, No. 33.

Tufts, P. A Plan of Lechmere Point in Cambridge [MA]. As Stake'd into Streets by Peter Tutfs, Junr. Septr. 30th, 1811. (200 feet to the inch; engraved by G. Foster.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 241.

[A group of linen-backed, folding North American maps from Alnwick Castle, originally owned by the 2nd Duke of Northumberland, patron of C.-J. Sauthier, including Collet's 'Complete Map of North Carolina' (1770), Fry & Jefferson's 'Map of the Most Inhabited parts of Virginia' (c. 1768), Mouzon's 'An Accurate Map of North & South Carolina' (1775), Ratzer's 'Plan of the City of New York' (1776), and Sauthier's 'Chorographical Map of the Province of New York' (1779).] Sotheby's (at Syon Park, London), May 1997. [See the note by Ian McKay in Mercator's World, September/October 1997, pp. 68-69.]

SCREEN. Willdey, G. A four-fold screen containing 20 engraved maps surrounding an 8-sheet world map, together 180 X 255 cm. c. 1720-1730. (This is an earlier edition, with the lower row of maps cut into, of the screen described under Notable Acquisitions, London, British Library.) Reiss & Sohn, Konigstein am Taunus, October 1997 Lot 2890.

TEXAS. Austin, Stephen F. Map of Texas, with Parts of the Adjoining States. 1830. (In the original red morocco folder.) Dorothy Sloan, Austin, 5 April 1997.

WORLD ATLASES. Blaeu, W. J. Atlantis Appendix, sive pars altera. Amsterdam, 1630. (The copy described by



Koeman as Bi 1 (D), lacking two of the 75 maps-Africa and Italy). Sotheby's 26 June 1997 Lot 165.

Seller, J. A New Systeme of Geography. London, 1694. Sotheby's 26 February 1998 Lot 357.

WORLD MAPS. Fer, N. de. Mappemonde ou carte generale de la Terre. Paris: Desnos, 1760. (Reissue of the 1694 map, 107 x 77 cm; Shirley 560). Roderick M. Barron, Sevenoaks, Catalogue 29, No. 15.

Kitchin, T. A New Map of the World. London: Haines & Son, 1797. (57 X 105 cm.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 187.

Mortier, P. Mappe Monde ou globe Terrestre en deux plans hemispheres. c.1710. (cf. Shirley 605; 106 X 136 cm.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 174.

Nolin, J.B. Le globe terrestre represente en deux plans- hemispheres. Paris: Crepy [1756]. (117 X 150 cm).

Koeman as Bi 1 (D), lacking two of the 75 maps-Africa and Italy). Sotheby's 26 June 1997 Lot 165.

Seller, J. A New Systeme of Geography. London, 1694. Sotheby's 26 February 1998 Lot 357.

WORLD MAPS. Fer, N. de. Mappemonde ou carte generale de la Terre. Paris: Desnos, 1760. (Reissue of the 1694 map, 107 x 77 cm; Shirley 560). Roderick M. Barron, Sevenoaks, Catalogue 29, No. 15.

Kitchin, T. A New Map of the World. London: Haines & Son, 1797. (57 X 105 cm.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 187.

Mortier, P. Mappe Monde ou globe Terrestre en deux plans hemispheres. c.1710. (cf. Shirley 605; 106 X 136 cm.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 174.

Nolin, J.B. Le globe terrestre represente en deux plans- hemispheres. Paris: Crepy [1756]. (117 X 150 cm).

Sotheby's 26 June 1997 Lot 247. Another edition: Paris, 1740. Martayan Lan, New York, Catalogue 23, No. 2.

Overton, H. This New and Correct Map of the World, A New Mapp of the World. London [1700]. (56 X 143 cm.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 192.

Petrini, P. Mappa-mondo overo Carta Generale della Terra Divisa in due planisferi. [Naples, c.1700]. (121 X 101 cm; Shirley 625.) Christie's, New York, 21 April 1997 Lot 135.

Price, C. A New and Correct Map of the World. London: R. Marshall, 1783. (63 X 94 cm.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 199.

Wit, F. de. Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. Amsterdam, c.1660. (128 X 195 cm; Shirley 422.) Martayan Lan, New York, Catalogue 23, No. 1.

London, March 1998

Sotheby's 26 June 1997 Lot 247. Another edition: Paris, 1740. Martayan Lan, New York, Catalogue 23, No. 2.

Overton, H. This New and Correct Map of the World, A New Mapp of the World. London [1700]. (56 X 143 cm.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 192.

Petrini, P. Mappa-mondo overo Carta Generale della Terra Divisa in due planisferi. [Naples, c.1700]. (121 X 101 cm; Shirley 625.) Christie's, New York, 21 April 1997 Lot 135.

Price, C. A New and Correct Map of the World. London: R. Marshall, 1783. (63 X 94 cm.) Sotheby's 4 December 1997 Lot 199.

Wit, F. de. Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. Amsterdam, c.1660. (128 X 195 cm; Shirley 422.) Martayan Lan, New York, Catalogue 23, No. 1.

London, March 1998

Forthcoming International Conferences For a regularly updated listing, including regional meetings, talks, etc., see: < http://www.cyberia.com/pages/jdocktor/ >.

1998 September 10-11: 'Roanoke Colonization: an Interdisciplinary Conference', Manteo, North Carolina. Contact: Tom

Shields, Roanoke Colonies Research Office, c/o Dept of English, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, U.S.A. ([email protected])

September 30- Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium, Rostock, Germany. Organizer: Arbeitsgruppe D-A-CH. < http:// October 2: www.stub.unibe.ch/dach/dach.html >. October 3-5: 17th International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), Tokyo. Contact:

Mr Hideo Fujiwara, Inokashira 5-2-5, Mitaka, Tokyo-181, Japan.> October 3-7: IXth Symposium of the International Coronelli Society, Berlin, Germany. Contact: Internationale

Coronelli-Gesellschaft, Dominikanerbastei 21/28, 1010 Vienna, Austria. November 4-8: International conference to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's voyage to India,

organised by the CNCDP, Lisbon. Contact: Joaquim Romero Magalhaes, Chairman Scientific Committee, Casa dos Bicos, Rua dos Bacalhoeiros, 1100 Lisboa, Portugal. < http://www.cncdp.pt/ >.

November 5-7: Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries, Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. < http://www.vcn.bc.ca/shd98 >.

Forthcoming International Conferences For a regularly updated listing, including regional meetings, talks, etc., see: < http://www.cyberia.com/pages/jdocktor/ >.

1998 September 10-11: 'Roanoke Colonization: an Interdisciplinary Conference', Manteo, North Carolina. Contact: Tom

Shields, Roanoke Colonies Research Office, c/o Dept of English, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, U.S.A. ([email protected])

September 30- Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium, Rostock, Germany. Organizer: Arbeitsgruppe D-A-CH. < http:// October 2: www.stub.unibe.ch/dach/dach.html >. October 3-5: 17th International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), Tokyo. Contact:

Mr Hideo Fujiwara, Inokashira 5-2-5, Mitaka, Tokyo-181, Japan.> October 3-7: IXth Symposium of the International Coronelli Society, Berlin, Germany. Contact: Internationale

Coronelli-Gesellschaft, Dominikanerbastei 21/28, 1010 Vienna, Austria. November 4-8: International conference to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's voyage to India,

organised by the CNCDP, Lisbon. Contact: Joaquim Romero Magalhaes, Chairman Scientific Committee, Casa dos Bicos, Rua dos Bacalhoeiros, 1100 Lisboa, Portugal. < http://www.cncdp.pt/ >.

November 5-7: Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries, Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. < http://www.vcn.bc.ca/shd98 >.

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'Gendered Landscapes: an Interdisciplinary Exploration of past Place and Space', organised by the State College, Pennsylvania State University. Contact: Roberta Moore, Conference Planner, The Pennsylva- nia State University, 225 The Penn State Conference Center Hotel, University Park PA 16802-7002, U.S.A. Phone: (814) 863-5120, Fax: (814) 863-5190. 'The Hereford and Other Mappaemundi': a multi-disciplinary conference and exhibition. Contributions from experts in fields other than the histories of western cartography and art will be particularly welcome. For further information or expressions of interest, please contact Canon John Tiller, Cathedral Office, The Cathedral, Hereford HR 12NG, U.K. 18th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Athens, Greece, preceded by the meeting of the International Society for the Curators of Early Maps on July 10. [See p. 6]. 18th International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), followed by post- symposium tour, Istanbul, Turkey.

10. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium, Bonn. Organizer: Arbeitsgruppe D-A-CH. For additional information contact: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Scharfe, Fachrichtung Kartographie, Freie Universitat Berlin, Arno-Holz-Str. 12, D-12165 Berlin, Germany. < http://www.stub.unibe.ch/dach/dach.html >. 19th International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), Reykjavik, Iceland.

19th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Madrid, Spain. 20th International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), Nicosia, Cyprus.

21st International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), Amsterdam, Netherlands. 11. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium, Niirnberg, Germany. < http://www.stub.unibe.ch/dach/ dach.html >.

'Gendered Landscapes: an Interdisciplinary Exploration of past Place and Space', organised by the State College, Pennsylvania State University. Contact: Roberta Moore, Conference Planner, The Pennsylva- nia State University, 225 The Penn State Conference Center Hotel, University Park PA 16802-7002, U.S.A. Phone: (814) 863-5120, Fax: (814) 863-5190. 'The Hereford and Other Mappaemundi': a multi-disciplinary conference and exhibition. Contributions from experts in fields other than the histories of western cartography and art will be particularly welcome. For further information or expressions of interest, please contact Canon John Tiller, Cathedral Office, The Cathedral, Hereford HR 12NG, U.K. 18th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Athens, Greece, preceded by the meeting of the International Society for the Curators of Early Maps on July 10. [See p. 6]. 18th International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), followed by post- symposium tour, Istanbul, Turkey.

10. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium, Bonn. Organizer: Arbeitsgruppe D-A-CH. For additional information contact: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Scharfe, Fachrichtung Kartographie, Freie Universitat Berlin, Arno-Holz-Str. 12, D-12165 Berlin, Germany. < http://www.stub.unibe.ch/dach/dach.html >. 19th International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), Reykjavik, Iceland.

19th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Madrid, Spain. 20th International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), Nicosia, Cyprus.

21st International Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS), Amsterdam, Netherlands. 11. Kartographiehistorisches Colloquium, Niirnberg, Germany. < http://www.stub.unibe.ch/dach/ dach.html >.

20th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Portland, Maine and Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. 20th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Portland, Maine and Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. 231 231



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