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Date	Event	Contact
Regular	The Oxford Seminars in Cartography [TOSCA]. Meetings are held at: The School of Geography Mansfield Road Oxford	Nick Millea (Bodleian Library, Map Section) Tel: 01865-277013 Fax: 01865-277139 nam@bodley.ox.ac.uk
Regular	Warburg Lectures: Maps And Society - Lectures in the history of cartography. Convened by Tony Campbell (Map Library, British Library) and Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research, London). Held at: The Warburg Institute University of London Woburn Square London WC1H OAB Admission is free. All are welcome. Meeting are followed by refreshments	Tony Campbell (Map Library, British Library) 0171 412 7525
January 28th	Sotheby's London Printed Books & Maps	Catherine Slowther Tel: 0171 293 5291
January 28th 5pm	Warburg Lecture (see above) Professor Michael Jones (Department of History, University of Nottingham) ‘The English and Brittany in the late sixteenth century: the map evidence.'	Tony Campbell (Map Library, British Library) 0171 412 7525
February 6th-7th	Miami International Map Fair Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street Miami, FL 33130 USA	Marcia Kanner, Map Fair Co-ordinator Tel: (305)-375-1492 Fax: (305)-375-1609
February 12th-14th	32nd California International Antiquarian Book Fair Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 Eighth Street at Brannan, San Francisco Friday: 3-9pm; Saturday 11am - 7pm; Sunday 11am - 5pm. Admission: Preview $10 (valid for three days); regular $ 5.	Winslow & Associates Tel: (415)-551-5190 Fax: (415)-551-5195 www.sanfranciscobook fair.com
Febuary 25th 5pm	Warburg Lecture (as above) Dr. Jeffrey Stone (Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen) ‘Imperialism, Colonialism and Cartography in Africa.’	Tony Campbell (Map Library, British Library) 0171 412 7525
March 11th	Sotheby's London Important Atlases & Cosmographies	Catherine Slowther Tel: 0171 293 5291
March 18th 5pm	Warburg Lecture (as above) Professor Martha Pollak (Department of Art History, University of Illinois) ‘Military Strategy And City Plans In The Seventeenth Century.’	Tony Campbell (Map Library, British Library) 0171 412 7525
April 27-28th	Sotheby's London Printed Books & Maps	Catherine Slowther Tel: 0171 293 5291
April 29th 5pm	Warburg Lecture (as above) Ralph Ehrenberg (formerly Map Division, Library of Congress) ‘Airways: the Early Development of Aviation Cartography in the United States of America.'	Tony Campbell (Map Library, British Library) 0171 412 7525
May 6th	Oxford Seminars in Cartography (as above) Rose Mitchell (Public Record Office) ‘Contention the Mother of Invention: early maps of England in the Public Record Office’	Nick Millea (Bodleian Library, Map Section) Tel: 01865-277013 Fax: 01865 277139 nam@bodley.ox.ac.uk
May 31st	IMCoS Nineteenth International Map Fair Commonwealth Conference & Events Centre Kensington High Street London W8 11.00 - 17.30 (IMCoS Members 10.30)	Harry Pearce Tel: 44(0) 181 769 5041 Fax: 44(0) 181 677 5417
June 3rd 5pm	Warburg Lecture (as above) Professor Lena Cowen Orlin (Department of English, University of Maryland) ‘Reading Ralph Treswell’s Maps: Property Disputes in Tudor and Stuart London.’	Tony Campbell (Map Library, British Library) 0171 412 7525
June 7th	Sotheby's London Travel, Atlases & Natural History	Catherine Slowther Tel: 0171 293 5291
July 8th	Sotheby's London Printed Books & Maps	Catherine Slowther Tel: 0171 293 5291

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Catalogues Received
Richard B Arkway Inc. Catalogue XLIX Maps Of America And Of The World 36pp; 68 items, 66 numbered, all illustrated, 2 in colour.	The two colour illustrations depict the ‘Ratzen Plan’ a very detailed plan of lower Manhattan and Thomas Jefferys’ ‘Map Of The Most Inhabited Parts Of New England, both published for use in the Revolutionary War, both in strong, bright original hand colour.
The Map House 50 Rare And Important Maps Of The New World 52pp, 50 items, all illustrated, unpriced	Items range from a 1503 map of the world to a National Geographical Society Map Cabinet, presented by the Society to Vice Admiral Sir John Edgell, Hydrographer of the Royal Navy, in April 1945. The cabinet contains 19 maps stored on spring-loaded rollers, each with a corresponding index pamphlet, mounted in pockets inside the front cover.
Martayan Lan Recent Acquisitions 4pp; brief listing, referring to 84 items, unpriced; 4 colour illustrations	Includes a rare-wall map of the Americas, published by Covens and Mortier (illustrated).
Jonathan Potter Ltd Choice Items From Stock - 16 32pp; 279 items, 51 illustrations, 6 in colour, arranged by region	Highlights are a section of mapsellers’ advertisements and portraits, including stock-lists issued by Pierre Moullart-Sanson (dated 1724), and by Nicolas de Fer (although actually issued by his successor, Guillaume Danet, after 1723), listing folio maps, wall-maps and books and atlases.
Tooley Adams & Co Stock Lists October 1998. South-West England 7pp, 137 items, 7 illus. South-Central England 6pp, 84 items, 8 illus. South-East England 6pp, 84 items, 8 illus. West-Central England 7pp, 122 items, 10 illus. East-Anglia 7pp, 109 items, 8 illus. North-West England 7pp, 117 items, 8 illus. North-Central England 10pp, 171 items, 9 illus. North-East England 8pp, 143 items, 10 illus.	Photocopied lists of English county maps, some with Ogilby road maps

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