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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 |
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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 |
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Christie's King Street, London
Valuable Printed Books & Manuscripts |
Tel: 0171 839 9060
Fax: 0171 839 1611 |
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The A.B.A. London Antiquarian Book Fair
Olympia 2 Kensington London W14 |
Antiquarian Booksllers' Association |
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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 |
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Sotheby's London
Travel, Atlases & Natural History |
Catherine
Slowther
Tel: 0171 293 5291 |
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29th - 1st Oct |
Hereford Cathedral
International Mappae Mundi Exhibition 1999 As part of the Mappa Mundi Conference 1999, the Mappa Mundi & Chained Library Exhibition is bringing together nearly all the few surviving examples of medieval world maps from collections around the globe. These maps and books, some of which have never been seen publicly before, will be exhibited alongside the Hereford Mappa Mundi and Chained Library in the beautiful, award-winning New Library Building at Hereford Cathedral creating an exhibition of unique and historical significance. |
http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~mserve/mappconf.html http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~mserve/mapmundi.html
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Sotheby's London
Printed Books & Maps |
Catherine
Slowther
Tel: 0171 293 5291 |
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24th |
Christie's King Street, London
Valuable Printed Books & Manuscripts |
Tel: 0171 839 9060
Fax: 0171 839 1611 |
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| Roderick
M. Barron
Catalogue 33: 'Speed' 59pp; 262 items, 80 b&w, 4 colour illustrations. |
The principal section is a listing of maps from Speed's folio atlases, the 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', and the 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World' (1676). Other sections are 'Recent Acquisitions' and a Shortlist of European maps of Japan. A real rarity is a previously unrecorded - and apparently unique - example of Speed's map of Canaan, first published in 1611, here re-published by Christopher Browne, circa 1695. |
| Martayan
Lan
Catalogue 24: 'Fine Antique Maps, Atlases, Globes & City Views' 64pp; 175 items, 145 b&w, 13 colour illustrations. |
Lavishly produced catalogue. Among the rarities on offer are
John Seller's chart of the Eastern Seaboard from Cape Hatteras to Newfoundland,
published in 1675, Johann Christoph Rhode's two sheet map of the Theatre
of War in the French and Indian War, 1756, and Andrew Dury's broadsheet
map of Boston and its environs, published in 1776, which shows the British
besieged in Boston, by the encircling American forces, under Washington.
The week after the plan was published, the British were forced to evacuate
the city. As a consequence, the British, being poor losers, threw
away the map, and it is now very rare.
Visual highlight of the catalogue, however, is Romeijn de Hooghe's map of the Mediterranean, published in 1694. The chart is surrounded by 38 etched vignette views of principal ports of the region. When seen in contemporary colour, as here, it is a spectacular - to err on the side of understatement - example of Dutch cartography, from its "Golden Age". |
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O'Shea Gallery
‘Antiquarian Maps Of Germany March 1999’ Photocopied list, 9pp, 214 items, 1 illustration |
A good general selection, divided into regions, strong on maps by Visscher, de Wit, Danckerts, Coronelli, and the Homann family, from the period circa 1670 to circa 1740. |
| Hemispheres
'1999 Catalog' 36pp; 84 items, 51 b&w, 7 colour illustrations. |
General catalogue, but with emphasis on Americana and their personal interest, Africa. Highlights include the Pigafetta/De Bry map of Africa and Samuel Thornton's Draught of Cape Bona Esperanca, with an inset prospect of Cape Town. |
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| I have been looking for maps of the Cleveland Hills region that give
the
area more of a historical perspective. Any ideas? John Cleveland |
| Would you be able to point me in the right direction for chart dealers
who specialize in Marine /Admiralty charts especially those of the
19th and early 20th century?
Nigel Hughes |
