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[email protected] MAPS OF THE SPANISH ARMADA by Robert Adams andjolm Pine by Dr. ;\ drian Almond VI/li eu, t11 10 years ago, I purchased a coloured set cif he two people mainly responsible for sea cil arrs by Jolin Pine sil0111i11g til e course of til e this magnificent producti on are Robert Spanish Annada , I 111as 11ery i111pressed by the quality of Adam.s and John Pine. R obert Adams CIIJ?fO I'ing. I 11 1as subsequenrly told rilat other engra Fings T (c. 15-W - 1595) was an architect and based on so 111 e tapes tries, lllilicil accOinpauied til e charts surveyor w ho became Surveyor of the Queen's in til e or(~ in a l publication, ll'ere e/le /1 111 ore i111pressive . Buildings. H e was responsible for a number of Therefo re, til e recent opportunity ro acq 11ire til e ll'ilole manusc t-ipt plans, some of whi ch are extant, atlas euritled The T apestry H angin gs of the H ouse including Flushing, Portsm outh, Poole Harbour, of Lords: R eprese nting the several Engagements Plymouth, The Thames and the Armada charts. between the English and Spanish Fleets,. .. by The latter two arc described in this article. John Pine ... London, 1739 was a ten1ptatio11 I was J ohn Pine (1690 - 1756) was an engraver, unable to resist. A s a collector '! f tile nwps cif De/lOll I publisher and mapsc ll cr with an address of'Golden 111as e11e11 111 ore d e li,~ l1t e d IIIith an additional111ap Ifo u11d H ead aga inst Burlington H ouse, Pi ccadilly' but iu tile l'o lu111 e of u;!Jicil I was prel'iously urw ware, but also had premises in O ld Bond Street, Londo n. In 111 ore c!f that later. I starred to research '"Y acq uisition 1719 he published a prospectus for the first edition but fo un d only one deta iled st11 dy of til e atlas' dating of the vety popular road book of England and Fig. 1 back to I 963. I fe !r ril ar perhaps th e ti111 e fwd co 111 e to W ales, Brita nnia Depicta by Emanuel Bowen and Tire fleets off rel'isit tile 1110 rk and ro loo k ar as nwny copies as I wuld John Owen. H e engraved a four-sheet plan of P o1'tlaud Bill aud find . This article is til e result of that research. Bristol in 1743 foll owed by plans of London, the Isle of Wig ht. lr)'. Y1 / - ~ -""--.:-.. () '• www.tmcos. org 7 ~ l aps of the Spanish , \ rmada W estminster and Southwark (published by Jo hn ing the several phases of the action. Based on these R ocque), a plan of N ottingham, and John charts, an Englishman named Augustine R yther, Norden's map of Cornwall. However, the work engraved ten charts tracing th e progress of th e fo r which he is most remembered is Th e Tapestry Spanish and Engli sh fl eets from th e first sighting o tf Ha11gi11gs of the House (:f Lords. H e was well the Li za rd, alo ng the En gli sh C hannel to Calais connected sociall y and became 'Biuemantle and Graveline. An eleventh chart is a general view Pursuiva nt at Arms', a position in the College of of the Bt-itish Isles showing the Spanish fli ght Arms in London verifYing genealogies, granting around Scotland and Ireland to their return ro ute arms, and appearing at state occasions as a Herald. home. These charts were published in 1590 by He was also, as were most persons of note at the Adams in Expeditio11is HispaiiOI'll/11 i11 A ll,l! lialll Fera time, a Freemaso n. An exhibitio n of his life was descriptio, A 1111 0 D o .UDLX.'C.'([' //1; se ven of them held at Freemaso ns H all in Lo ndon a few years ago are reproduced in colour by Garrett Mattingly in but unfortunately a planned ca talogue of this event his book Th e Defea t o_( thc Spa11ish An11ada. Adams' was never produced. publica tion was sometimes accompani ed by an Fig.Z To commemo rate the Engli sh victOt)' over the Engli sh translation of an account of th e conflict Tl1 e title page to Spanish Armada in 1588 the Commander of the \\TJtten m Itali an by Petruccio U baldini. tile jiJ•st editiou of The Tapestry Engli sh fl eet, Lo rd H o ward of Effingham , Ubaldini, an Itali an res iding in Lo ndon and well H angings of the commissioned two works of art. H e engaged known at Queen Eli za beth 's Court, had been House of Lords. Robert Adams to draw a se ri es of charts represe nt- asked by Sir Francis Drake to write this record shortly aft er the victory. Lord Howard of Effingham also commiss ioned a Dutchman , H endrik Cornelius Vroom , to design ten tapes tri es to illustrate the va t-i o us views of the engagements depicted on Adams' charts. These tapestri es were wove n by another Dutchman, Franyo is Spierinck, and delivered to Lord H oward in 1595. They were later sold to James I and eventuall y hung in the H ouse of Lords where they were exhibited until all but one were des troyed in a maj or fire in T .\ I' L ~ T I{ 't 1834. The one not burnt had been stolen prior to " ' the fire; its present whereabouts is unknown. 11 () l . T he British Library has a se t of Adams' charts2 w hi ch arc bound together with the pages fi·om a Saxton atl as w hic h is thought to have belonged to r '\ c; .\ <, F \I L '\ T .'- Jam es I. This combined volume would have been I . \ (, I. I I II :I tid I 1'- 1.\ I I"! I 1"1.1-:1: 1"'-' . inherited by the British M useum when George II presented the O ld R oyal Library to th e nation in 1757 . Interestingly the spine is impressed P t, K.Il'- \11"' 111 1hc l .111d H t\..!11 · \ dnurtl . :11r d 1!11 · \ll h l't 'SAXTON I MAPS OF I ENGLAND I AND I , ,llol, · (ntlll!!,tlldo r-•. l.;k l ·u h ~>t l! !1 11 l .tl o• WALES. I 1579' and ' UBALDINO. I EXPEDI T IONIS I HISPANORUM I IN I ANG LIAM I VERA I DESCRIPTIO. I 1590.' D espite this recognition ofUbaldini there is no copy ofhis text in the volume 1 Eac h chart has a 'Scale of Leagues' within whi ch is in corporated a dedi ca ti o n to Robert Adams as autho r. H e is named va ri ously as 'R oberto (or R ober: or R o:) Adamo Authorc'. In 1739 John Pine used th e eleven charts by \ 1\ ' I 'I \, • ~ ' ' •' • p ., ' \ ,1 •• l I. '\! I tl 11 \ " Adams and the ten ta pestri es to produce the first of two editio ns of his The Tapes try H a 11g i11,~s (!f the lh ) () f/ \ I ' I .\ I . I ' t. ,, ,, 1 ._ House o_( Lords . Based o n drawings by H . G ravelot I . fl \ ' !J tl \ . \II H l \\\1\ of the Adams' ot-i ginals, Pine engraved his cham , reduced to approximately half size and mounted two to a sheet (Fig. /). The general chart of the British Isles occupies o ne w hole sheet which is surrounded by an engraved all egori cal border of battles , storms, priso ners and va ri o us armaments. This also applies to the other fi ve sheets. On some there are named ca meo portraits of persons worthy charts show with a page reference to the text Fig.J of mention; Queen Elizabeth twice, Charles Lord describing the particular action, together with an The general chart Howard of Effingham, Sir Francis Drake, Sir M. explanation of the medals and ornaments engraved of the route of tire Armada around Forbisher (a nlisspelling of Sir Martin Frobisher) around the charts. The page of explanation ends the British Isles and Sir John H awkins. with a li st of four 'Errata' . Following the text are There appear to be just two editions of Pine's the ten plates engraved from the tapestries work dated 1739 and 1753. However, it is difficult followed by the six sheets of charts described to collate precisely what the first edition contain ed above. The general chart of the British Isles and precisely when two additional maps, dated (Fig.3) has the signature 'E11graved by Jolw Pine, 1740, and other engravings of the H ouses of June 24'", 1739. Accordi11g to Act ofParlialllent.' Parliament, were incorporated into the original The plates drawn by C. Lempriere fi:om the edition which simpl y contained the six sheets of original tapestries and engraved by Pine, show the charts and the ten plates based on the tapestries. I various stages of the conflict in grapllic detail with have studied thirteen copies of the Pine atlas most the borders in black and the scenes of the ships in of which show some differences. I am assuming green/blue ink (Fig .4). These are some of the earliest that one of the British Library copies is the first examples of two-colour printing. Studying the edition and will describe it and point out the back of these sheets it would appear that the copper differences the other copies show compared to it. plate has had its centre cut out to enable the depiction The first edition of Pine's work in the British of the tapestry to be engraved separately from the Library3 is bound in maroon calf with the Royal border. I suspect the two parts of the plate were coats-of-anns in gilt on both front and back covers inked independently in either black or green/blue which are bordered with intricate gilt tooling. The ink, reassembled and printed at one pressing. The contents comprise a title page dated 1739 (Fig.2, two sets of plate lines are clearly seen and l think it left), a dedication to the King (George II), two would have been very difficult to have ptinted with back-to-back pages of a list of subscribers with a such accuracy in a two press process. list of nine 'Names Onlitted' on the second page, There is an identical copy of tllis first edition 23 pages of text by 'Rev. Mr. Philip Morant, MA. in the Cambridge University Library.4 The Rector of St. Mary's, Colchester' and one page National Maritime Museum has a copyS which explaining what the ten tapestry plates and the ten only differs in that the charts precede the tapestry www.imcos.org 9 Maps of the Spanish A rmada Fig.4 plates. This seems to be a common variation Paul's Church Yard, & J.Botvles & So11 at the Black The two colouv whi ch I shall not list in the remaining copies. Horse i11 Com hill.' tapestry engvaving Glasgow University Library also has a similar After this second title page there is a single showing the fleets copy.6 My own copy, that of Philip Burden, the sheet of text apparently summarising the previous off Calais. copy sold in the Wardington 2 sale (Sotheby's 10th 23 pages and a re-engraved Explanation sheet with October 2006 Lot 383), another Maritime only one 'Errata' (the oth r three having been Museum copy7 and the copy in the John Rylands corrected). The ten plates fi·om the tapestries all Library, Manchester University8 are very similar ha ve a similar Bowles' imprint as above as well as to the Cambridge copy but there are in addition the Pine imprint. The general map has the same two new maps dated 1740 in these five atlases. imprints but the five pages with two maps to a One is a map of the river Thames and one of page do not have the new Bowles' imprint. T he Devon and Cornwall showing the coastal defences maps of the Thames and Devon and Cornwall are as they would have been in 1588. I shall describe identical to those in the previous atlases. This atlas these two maps later. continues with four engravings illustrating both Another copy in the British Library9 seems to Houses of Parliament: be a transitional edition between the first edition • A view of the House of Peers. King George II and the second. The front title page is of the first on the Throne. Together with a list of edition as illustrated, the list of subscribers is altered Chancell ors. so that those names originally listed separately as • A view of the House of Commons. With a list 'Names Omitted' have been incorporated into the of Speakers of the House of Commons main list; the dedication and text are as above. • A view of the Court erected in Westminster Hall Following the text there is a second title page look for the trial of Simon Lord Lovet. ing very similar to the first edition but under ' ... • A Plan of the House of Conunons. Imprint: Ma11usoipts a11d W1iters.' there is an additional title: Engraved & Published by John Pine Sept 29 1749. 'THE SECOND EDIT ION. By JOHN PINE His A copy of the second edition in the National MAJESTY'S Chief ENGRAVER of SEALS &c Library of Scotland tO also has the four engravings and Bluemantle Persuivant at Arms. LONDON, of the Houses of Parliament detailed above plus MDCCLIII', and under the second Royal coats-of five additional engravings not in the British arn1s a sin gle line stating 'Sold by j.Pi11e. in King Library copy: Street 11ear St. A1111 's Church, Soho, T.Bowles in St • A Plan of the House of Peers. • The creation of Charles Brandon, Duke of dragon 'protected' by disc harging cannon. It reads Suffolk. 'THAMESIS DESCRIPTO Anno 1588 *Roberto • A View of the House ofPeers. King Henry VIII Adamo authore. Engraved from a Copy drawn by on the Throne. Mr Joseph Ames the 8th of April, 1738, from the • A View of the House of Peers. Queen Eliza beth original in Parchment.' Below the map there is a on the Throne. scal e of English miles and a note relating to the aster • The Illumination of a Charter granted to the isk: '* He is th e A11thor cif the Book in titled Expeditionis Provost & CoU ege of Eton by King H enry VI . Hispanorum in Angli am vera descriptio A.D. 1588 When I first sa w the extra engravings in from which th e Hangings in ye Ho11 se cif Lords were London I assumed they had been added later but des igned.' There is a signature ·Engra ved and their inclusion in the Edinburgh edition makes me Published by ]. Pine, March 25. 1740 according to Act think they were included in some of the second cif Parliament. ' The map has an unusual orientation editions. They aU bear Pine's imprint and are dated with east to the left and west to the right. There either 1749 or 1750. On some Pine uses his offi are sighting lines from vatious points on the river cial titl e 'Bluemantle'. bank and the identification of defences especially at The third copy in the British Library'' has yet Cockpull R each w here the river Lee enters the another collati on. The title page at the front is as Thames and at Gravesend/ Tilbury . The only described for the previous atlas with the reference bridge over the tiver is the old London Bridge to 'The Second Edition ... 1753' but in this case it from Southwark to the C ity. The old St Paul's is the only title page prese nt. The dedication Church ca n be seen ma!Gng this a fai thful copy of remains as before but there is no list of subscribers. a pre-Fire of London oti gi nal. This map would The text and explanation are in the second state. seem to have originated as a manusnipt parchment The ten plates of tapestry engravings come after drawn by Robert Adams about 1588. There are the text followed by the charts and the map of two manusc ript maps of the Thames by Robert D evon and Cornwall. None of the plates, charts, Adams in the British Library t2 . Either or both of or the map, has the Bowles imprint. The map of these could have been copied by Joseph An1 es in the T hames and the four engravings of the H ouses 1738, and finally engraved by John Pine in 1740. of Parliament are abse nt. The second additional map is an uncoloured The title of the map of the River Thames copy of a very large coloured vellum manuscript Fig.5 (Fig.S) is within an ornate cartouche framing the map (610mm x 1540mm) in the Cotton C oUection Tile map of tile R oyal coats-of-anns which show a lion and a in the British Library. t3 This manusc ript map has River Thames. /, I " I I I 11 Maps of the Spanish Armada the title written vertically in the top lefi: hand com er D evon. T his is elaborate and sum1ounted by the 'A Plott of all the Coast of Corn wall and R oyal coats-of-am1s, a li on and a dragon with the Devonshire as th ey were to bee fortifie d In 1588 title copied word for word from the vellum. against the landing of any Enemy.' Under the title is the additional wording, 'Take11 T he map consists of a simple outline of the fro m the Origi 11 al i11 the Cotto 11 ia 11 Library.' T here is South W es t peninsul a with outline blue for the sea engraving above the top border showing N eptune and yell ow fo r the land. T he inla nd space is void and attendant cherubs surrounded by ca non, pikes of any fea tures . T he onl y names are coastal towns and muskets. W ithin the lower frame is an and features such as 'bays' and 'points' . T he fo rti engraving of two interl ocked anchors and fica ti ons are detail ed as earthworks and two seaweed. Pine's dated imprint is under the two symbols used fo r troops of men, one with pikes anchor flukes and is identical to that under the and the other with muskets canied at the slope. map of the T hames. T he troops are coloured with red tunics. A few It has been suggested that the maps of the cas tl es arc identified and houses with red roofs are Thames and of Com wall and Devon were only shown in maj or harbour towns such as Plymouth. included in copies of the atlas sent to subscribers but T here is no signature but one is tempted to I have found no evidence of provenance in any of suppose th at this vellum map was also drawn by the copies I have seen. H owever, I am reli ably R obert Adams. informed that the Manchester copy was purc hased It is clear that the manusc ript was accurately in 1892 from the library of Earl Spencer of Althorp. copied by Pine for the engraved version used in The first Earl was created in 1761 but his fa ther, his Th e Tapestry Ha11gi11gs of the Ho11 se of Lords The H on. John Spencer MP., was a landowner and (Fig.6). It is an amazing reproducti on at a scal e could be 'The H on. John Spencer Esq.' li sted as a reduced to 40% ofthe o ri gi nal. T he inland space subscriber. H owever, it would not explain why has a unifo rm indica ti on of hills but with no they are included in the second edition copies attempt at contouring. T he named coastal tow ns unless there were new subsc ribers. and features are id entical on th e printed map (apart As a coll ector of D evon county maps fo r the fro m a few spelling di ffe rences) as arc the symboli c past four years my main interest in this atl as has troops, houses and churches except that they are been the las t map described w hi ch w ill be obviously uncoloured. T he main differences are incl uded, with th e agreement of the authors, in Fig.6 the addition of a large geom etri c compass rose the second edition of The Printed Maps of Devo 11 by The map of Devon with radiating points in the Bristol C hannel area Kit Batten and Francis Bennett. Studying the and Comwa/1 and a title ca rtouche occupying most of central w hole atlas however, has given me enormous \ ,,., II ..... , ...... /) ...._) ~ \ ) \·. 0 •' _-;..;. _,, . ,.,~ . \. I . " ~y- ... I -~- 12 IMCoS Tourml pleasure; in particular looking at the wonderful of th e ships. I have suggested above that the print engravings by Pine based on the tapestries. The in g was done in a one press process for accuracy, two-colour printing gives a very unusual effe ct but I am reli ably assured that from the start of and l recommend readers to look at a copy of the ptinting by Caxton the abili ty of printers to regis atl as when the opportunity ari ses. My only regret ter, ali gn, different plates for ptinting on the same is that the third copy of the three in the British page was well developed. Library has been gaudily coloured which, to my On further study of the C harts a similar two mind, has completely ruined the stunning effect colour printing was used. The plate lines of the and perspecti ve of the tapestry plates. I have two chart engravings on each page arc inset into included one example of a chart with modern the border of each chart (see Fig / .). The main colouring. Peopl e must make up their own minds ornate border, including th e border to each chart, about th e value of colourin g bea utiful engravings was engraved and printed in black. Eac h chart was for the modern market. then engraved se parately and registered o nto the If anyone knows the w hereabouts of any other page containing the border. It appears that the copi es of this atl as I would be glad to hear of it. I Chart engra vings were also inked w ith a different have tabulated the contents and collation of all the colo ur. On the two examples I have studied in copies I have managed to trace and will include any detail the second colour is either grey or blue grey. others in this listing. Please e-mail any infom1ation On first glance it appears that the whole page is in to adrian.almo [email protected] monochrome black on w hite but I am convinced it is another example of early two colour printing. D r Almond is a Notes: member of IMCoS 1. David Sc htire, "Adams' & Pine's Maps of the Spani sh I am indebted to Roger Calli cott, a book dealer arrd a retired gerreral medical practitioner. Armada" in Map Coll ectors' C ircle 4, 1963. from Cornwall, who was trained as a letterpress He is also a plrilate 2. UL Maps C.3.bb.5(2) printer with WS Cowell Ltd., for hi s help with list arrd postal lristo 3. 13L 191.g.7. this additi onal information. riarr arrd a fellow of 4. Hanson.bb.59. tire Royal Plrilatelic Society Lorrd01r. His 5. Pl3 E3595 Acknowledgements: postal lristory 6. Sp.Coii.S.M.2031 I acknowledge with gratitude the assistance I h;IVc speciality is D evorr 7. PUE3597 received dming the wtiting of this article from Peter wlriclr led to /rim 8. 10 132 Barber and the staff of th e Map Library of the British starting a map 9. BL Maps C.8.d.8 Library, the R are Books Departments ofCambtidgc collection of tire same comrty j11st 10. NLS A.SS.b University Library and the National Library of follr years ago. His 11. UL Maps 183.f.2. Scotland, the Special Coll ections Dcpartm.ents of partic11lar interest irr 12. UL Add.MS.44839 and BL I<. .Top. vi.1 7 Glasgow University Library and John Rylands Pine's atlas was tire 13. UL Cotton Augustus 1. Vol. l. Article 6 Library, Manchester University, the National map of Corrrwa/1 Maritime Muse um Library, Greenwich, Philip arrd D evon b11t Iris research meant he References: Burden, John Trcvcrs and Liz Rollason. lras beco me fasci Rodney Shi rley, Maps i11 the Atlases i11 tl1e British Library nated by tire plates (200-+) All the illustrations arc from the author's collection. from tire tapestries. Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat Coda Since writing th e above article and its being se t by the printer for publication, further information has come to li ght. This is regarding the printing processes of both the Tapestry plates and the Charts based on the Adams originals. l have said above that the Tapestry Plates were printed in two colours, w hich is true, but I am now sure three engraved plates were used in their production. Firstly, the border was engraved and ptinted in black, secondly, the main engraving of the ships and bac kground was printed in black on the page whi ch already had the border upon it. A third engravin g was made of some parts of the sea area an d the walls of Calai s and was printed in green/blue supetimposcd over the black printing www.imcos.org 13 RICHARD B. ARKWAY, INC. COHEN & TALIAFERRO LLC. 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PLEASE VISIT OUR W E BSITE AT 1 50 LEXI NGTO"- AVEI 16 IMCoS Journal } OHANNES MEJER Husum's great cartographer by Os\\'ald Dreyer- Ei mbckc An exhibition, "Der Crosse Kartograpil aus Wilhelm Lauremberg (1590-1658) as well. H e was Hus11111 " was Ylltllling in tile Schiffahrtsmusel/111 later to succeed Lauremberg as mapmaker for ]{jng Nouifriesland in Husum, Germany, recently . To mark Christian IV. After university Mejer returned to Fig 1. til e occasio11 our past-president, Oswald Dreyer his home town and worked as a teacher, poet, The o11ly existi11g Eimbcke, wilo supplied 111a11y of til e maps for th e exhi almanac designer and cartographer. portrait of bition, lias researched Mejer 's life a11d written this arti In those times reason was still bound up with ]oha1111es Mejer, Husum 1651. cle. It is based on til e biography li e has written of Mejer medieval ideas and during his life M ejer concerned uJ/1ich was published recently a11d is ret1ie11Jed in this Journal. t is usual to begin a biography with the subject's date of birth but in the case of Johannes M ejer this, like so many other I things about him, is shrouded in mystery. The earliest record we have of him is the entry in the parish register ofSt. Mary's C hurch, Husum in Gemuny announci11g his christening o n 12th October, 1606. Since in those days only a short time elapsed between birth and christening we can ass ume that Johannes was born around that time. M ejer surveyed the two duchies of Schleswig and Holstein for Chri stian IV of D enmark between 1638 and 1648 and also produced manu script maps of Denmark in 1650. Since the two duchies of Schleswig and H olstein were under the rule ofthe Kings of D enmark fron1 1460 to 1864, Mejer can probably be classified as the most important ca rtographer in the history of Denmark. However, despite his achievements, he remained virtuall y unrecognised by his contempo rari es both in D enmark and Germany. One of the reasons may be that his maps of Denmark were never printed. Despite this they were copi ed by later ca rtographers. His work was state of the art and no other region was as well mapped as Denmark and the duchi es north of the Elbe at that time. Following the ea rly death of his father, who was a dea n, M ejer moved to Schleswig to live with an uncle. H owever, it was the support of another uncle, Bernhard M ejer, vicar of St. Peter's C hurch, Copenhagen, which contributed most to his development. It was also whilst at Copenhagen University under the as tronomer Longomontanus and mathematician Thomas Fincke, that Mejer acquired an excellent grounding in cartography. He may have attended lectures by Jo hannes WWW. ImCOS.Of\J 17 Jo han ncs i\ lcjcr himsel f with astrology, publishing almanacs with Descriptions cif the Two du chies of Schleswich aud forecasts. ln these he recommended days w hich Holstein] with 39 maps and 52 town plans. It was were suitable for blood-letting. for weaning chil printed at the court printing works in Schl eswig dren, and for successful busin ess deals, all on the and may have been supervised by Adam O learius, basis of readings of the constellati ons. the sc holar and court librari an at Gottorf. This Mej er's younger brother, Samuel, w ho had impressive tome contains a comprehensive histor become prospero us as an apothecary 111 ical and topographical description which no oth er Copenhagen, and the brothers Joachim and region could cl aim at that time. Caspar Danckwerth, funded a large part of the Mej er's name appeared 111 the atl as as publishing proj ect for the mapping of Schleswig "Husumensis C imber" w hile Caspar D ankwerth is H olstein. Caspar D anckwerth, w ho was mayor of simpl y "D ". T he work was dedicated to the two Husum, was drawn to the project by histo ri cal and ruling dukes from the house of Oldenburg, one of genealogical interests. H e took on not onl y the whom was at the sam e time Frederick II , ]{jng of text of the regional descriptions but also manage D enmark and N orway, and li ved in Copenhagen. ment of the entire proj ect. T wo other se ts of The other, Frederick IV, was Duke of Schl eswig, brothers, Mathias (161 4-1676) and Nicolas (1622- H olstein , Stomu rn and Dithmarsc hen , and also Fig Z. 1705) Petersen, goldsmiths and engravers, and C ount of O ldenburg and D elmenhorst. H e li ved The two duchies published irr the Andreas and C hristi an Lorenze n (ali as R otgiesse r, at Gottorf Castle. New Regional active in Husum 1648-1 688 and 1649-1 659 In this hard country, where the constant battle Descriptions, respecti vely) were entrusted w ith the engrav ing with the elem ents created a need for dykes and Husum 1652 with and design of the maps. In 1652 the work drainage systems, there was obviously a special 18 bird's-eye views of its appeared as Nerve La nd esbeschre ibun,~ der zwey interest in surveying. As ea rl y as 1636 Johannes towrrs. Hertzo,Rthiilll er Schles wich und Holstein [New R e,Rional M ej er made his first map of th e duchy for the 18 IMCoS Journal Duke at Gottorf In 1641 he was conunissioned by King C hristian IV to draw a map of the west coast J of Jutland. He ca rri ed this task out so well he / " \~' ga ined the King's favo ur and was appointed Court C.) \.) Mathematician. In 1641, before his appointment as Royal Mathematician, Mejer drew 63 accurate maps of the district of Abenraa for an atlas by Joachim Danckwerth. These n1.aps showed all the towns, villages, farms and houses at a scale of 1:12,500. In 1647 C htistian IV gave Mejer another appointment, this time as Royal Mathematician. This attracted an annual salary of 300 talers and he was provided with a horse and carriage from the noble estates he was visiting and, if necessary, a boat and up to two men. To map the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein in only ten years was a remarkable ac hi evement. Mejer established the mathematically-exact grid for the maps by detemlining the latitude. His calculations approximate to the actual figures although he failed to take into account the refrac tion of the Earth's atmosphere. This resulted in the maps being about 1112minutes of arc too fa r north. He established the longitude with the means of a compass while the distances were either paced out or estimated. The sheets covering the marsh areas where there was nothing to get in the way of sightings from one tower to another, were partic ularly accurate. Although he achieved remarkable results in this project he caused confusion by mistaking the plan of Oldenburg in Holstein with that of Stade (which is on the River Elbe and has a harbour). This resulted in Oldenburg being depicted with a harbour and Stade without one. Mejer completed the surveying of the duchies in 1648 and the engravers worked on the copper plates up to 1652. According to Mejer the cost of the production of the New Re,gional Descriptio11 was around 7000 talers. It was sold at between 3 and 6 talers per copy w hi ch seems astoundingly low for such an important work. Unfortunately it did not death, Mejer wrote a despairing letter to Duke Fig 3. sell well, partly due to the Sonderburg branch of Christian Albrecht, founder of the University of The Island of Helgoland i11 tlte the House of O ldenburg publishing a protest Kiel , asking him for protection against his creditors. New Regional document stating that their sovereignty was not The great fire that destroyed the offices of the Descriptions, recognised in the atlas. King Fredetic Ill was also Blaeu fa ncily in Amsterdam in 1672 resulted in the Husum 1652 annoyed by the incorrect presentation of his rela loss of a large proportion of Mejer's work tionship with the dukes and poor Mejer's salary although some otiginal plates and some reproduc was reduced to 100 talers with the King threaten tions did survive. T hese were used by nearly all ing to ban the atlas. cartographers around the world up to the end of This modest bachelor, Johannes Mejer, felt the eighteenth century. Blaeu used some of the very hard done by and blamed Danckwerth for plates for his Atlas Major, 1662. making these embarrassing errors. Worse still, he Immediately after the publication of his work, was left with debts in his old age. Despite this he Mejer worked hard on the mapping of Denmark continued working on the mapping of Denmark and in 1650 was able to supply King Frederic II l and Norway. As late as 1668, six years before his with a general map of that country. This was WWW.ImCOS.onr 19 Johannes Mejcr Fig 4. followed by some regional maps and three Orbis Vetus complete manuscript maps of Iceland. None of (Old World) Mejer's hand-drawn wall maps or his detailed Husum 1652. See Rodney maps of Denmark were ever printed. When the Sllirley The war began with Sweden in 1657 the King lost Mapping of the interest in the maps and no engravings were ever World p.400. prepared. Some of the manuscript maps went into the royal collection and some were lost. More than 500 are now 111 the Royal Library m Copenhagen M ejer did his best for his home town of Husum. The Regio11al Descriptio11 contained not only two town plans of Husum but also an added profile view, the only one in the work, but he died on 10th June, 1674, a disappointed and impoverished man. Further reading Oswald Drcyer-Eimbcke, 400 Jahre )oha1111es Mejer (1606-1 674). 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The states (if the H o11dius 1uap "Pol us Antarcticus" aud map border, which contains decorati ve vignettes corrects a IIIUu ber of lllis-idelltiflcatiolls of th ese states by represe nting peopl e in the southern hemisphere ua ri ous auth ors. and their environments, remains unchanged in all four states . he "Polus Antarcti cus" seri es of maps is T here arc significa nt va ri ations between refer one of the most important cartographic, ence works regarding the first publica ti on dates of histori c, and geographic records of the each of these four states. This va ri ati on refl ects T explo rati on of the so uthern Pac ifi c three related iss ues . Firstl y the purpose of the Ocean , tracking Dutch expl orati on of Australia reference works them se lves is often not taken into and New Zealand fro m 1616 to 16-H. considerati on. T ooley, fo r instance, is cited Clancy! has noted, "The H ondius map is of frequently as an authOtity despite the fact that his particul ar importance, representin g the fi rst se rial work is in fac t a catalogue of maps rather than a map of the Antarcti c area ... " and Tooley2 beli eved definiti ve reference work . Secondly, th ese author "The bes t map prior to T as man was H enricus iti es used different editions, published at different H ondius' Polus Antarcti cus of 1641. H e added times, of w hat was esse ntially the same atl as with H outman Abrolh os and Nuytsland to his map thus the sam e state of "Polus Antarcti cus." Peter va n de making the w hole of the west and part of the Krogt7 has personally sighted fi ve copi es of the south coast lof Australi a] common knowledge." Gemu n edition of Volume 5 of A tlas 1'\'o,us Published in fo ur di ffe rent sta tes, the sc 1i es containing the third ~ L a t e of the map. T hree were includes a number of unusual fea tures fo r the published in 1650, one in 1652, and one in 1657. period. As a hcmispheti cal map centred on the Complicating this confusion is the cataloguing South Pole, it enabl ed the map maker to focus on of the M crca tor-Hondius atl ases, w hi ch included T erra Austral is Incognita and its gradual unveiling "Polus Antarcti cus." N aturall y, this cataloguing with th e grow th of Dutch knowledge. H owever, tracks the publication of the atlases rather than th e physical constraints of this approach mea nt individual maps, the nature of w hi ch, in th e 1630s, important discoveri es above 20 degrees so uth could be rath er ad-hocH The collati on of individual could not be recorded. atl ases depended on avai labl e stock rather than the While fi rst publis hed by H cnricus H ondi us3, more modern publish ing practice of clearl y "Polus Anta rcticus" had several publi shers over its defi ned editi ons, usuall y with updated in fo m1ati on. lifetime. Clancy4 notes subsequent publishers as T he identifica ti on of maps is relati ve to the atlases, Jansson, de Wit, and Gerald Valk and Pi cter rath er th an to their specifi c contents. Schenk, "over a peri od of 60 years." This paper attempts to distil th e coll ec ti ve "Polus Antarcticus" was o ri ginally published as wisdom to id enti fY the charac teristi cs of each state a map in va ri ous Dutch, Latin , French, and and to clari fY their first publication dates. It also Gennan editions of Mercator's A tla11tis ,\lajoris includes tabl es of the publi cation dates cited by atlas. In som e editions there was text on th e verso standard reference works fo r each state, and other in the particular language of that edition. M ost identi fy ing infonnation. copi es have been separated fro m their source atl ases, and arc hand coloured. D ewez5 beli eves First State many copi es of the map were ori ginall y hand There is universal agreement that the First State of coloured. " Later editions of th e map may have "Polus Antarcti cus" can be identified as a hemi been printed and published se parately. sph eri cal chart w ith, "Title within ca rtouche, A hemispheri cal map, " Polus Antarcticus" blank cartouchc possibl y intended to include a displays the area fr om the South Pole at the centre dedica ti on."9 H cnricus H ondius is recorded as out to 23 degrees south of the equator. T he prime publi sher in the title cartouche, and the Australian meridian is the Azores. While the neat-line coastline shows all but two of the known Dutch dimensions vary6, most examples fall w ithin the discoveri es up to 1627: "those of H artog in 1616, WWW.li11COS. Org 27 Polus Antarcticus the Van Leeuwin in 1622, Nuyts in 1627 and Discoveries (2nd State)) refers to the 1618 chance 'H outmans Abrollios' are named, referring to discovery by the Mauritius II_ Houtman's 1619 exploits."IO The eastern-most point of discovery on the south coast is defined by Map 1 - Polus Antarcticus, First State 'I. S. Pieter' and 'I.S Francois,' discovered and Krogtl2 records that the first state (Map 1 - Polus named by Nuyts. Antarcticus, First State) was published in 1637 in The two expeditions not recorded arc the Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Houdii , Appendix, A tlantis - 1605- 6 expedition of Willem Jansz and Jan the Latin appendix to Atlantis Majoris [1: 301] 13. R oossengin in the Duyjkeu, and Carstensz and va n Kocman 14 concurs [M e47]. A Dutch edition of Colster's 1623 voyage. These discoveries, on the the Appendix also appeared in the same year. Both south coast of New Guinea, the west side of the versions of the map have text on the vcrso.15 Cape York Peninsula, and part of Arnhcm Land, H owever there is a reasonable possibiliry that could not be incorporated due to the latitudinal the first publication of "Polus Antarcticus" was as constraints of the Polus Antarctic us hemisphere. early as 1636. According to Koeman 16, a copy of Map 1 Frederick de Witt's 1628 discoveries on the a Latin version of Volume III (a new volume) of Polus Antarcticus, north west coast of Australia are also omitted. Atlas Toll/IS contains a title page stating the year of First State Wille111s Ri11ier (Map 2b - Early Dutch Australian publication as 1636. Peter van de Krogtl7 records 0 • () ' ~ \ ' 1 t 11\ ~ . '1' I\ \ Q I' ,. \I ' ' ' ' .., I:I \-- ..b II ... \ ' ' ' I \ R '' ,• , > • ~ .. ~ ,i ,. •) ~ .. .. I .. .. .•" ' ' ...... I • ...... I that he "supposes" the publicati on date was 1638, the same year volumes I and II were published. Krogt has confirmed IS that he beli eves this particul ar copy used old stock for the title page. H owever, as the title pagel9 states :"Gcrardi M crcatoris I Atlantis Novi I Par T ertia I lta-liam, Graeciam I ... . I Sumptibus et typis aeneis H enrici P t > L \ ~ Hondij, Amster- dami, 1636" it could be reason abl y argued that the title page was printed specifi A>JT RC ca!J y for a Volume Ill, in 1636. Further evidence tends to support th e 1636 date. In his coll ati on for T I C l. l ..\ · the 1637 Latin Appendix [1:301] va n de Krogt states : "This Appendix of 1637 was published to se rve as a supplement to the M ercator-Hondius Atlas published in 1630 [1 :1 07]. It contains partly the same maps as the third volume, dated 1636, of the Novus Atlas [1 :302]. But that third volume Tire title cm•touche anticipated a fin al new arrangement of the maps in from tire first state the volumes 1 and 2 of the 1 638 Latin edition of Polus [1:-+01]." Antarcticus T his statement, which supports Koeman's hypoth esis, would seem to acknowledge the Tire title cartouche publica ti on of Volume III of the Latin version of from tire second th e A tlas N ovus prior to Volumes I and II in 1638, state of Polus giving greater credence to th e 1636 date. Antarcticus In 1638 a Dutch language Volume II of Atlautis Majoris, including " Polus Antarcti cus," was published and was republished on several 1.. t ,"-; occa~ iom up to 1644. A revised Dutch editi on of A tlas Novus, Volume III first appea red in 16-+ 5 and T \H. C. was published up until 1658. A French edition ofVolume III was published ·r 1 c· t · s in 1639, and republished up until 1644. In 1646 a new edition was iss ued, with further reprints published up to 1649. Second State T he firs t change to "Polus Antarcticus" was the alteration of the title cartouche to record the name of the new publisher. "H enri cus H ondius excudit" becan1e " loannes lansonnius excudit" . Table 1 First publication dates of the 1st State of Polus Antarcticus cited by main references Rifermcc Year ID So urce Text Jll us . Koeman 16362° ME SOA Atlantis Majoris, Vol. Ill Latin Kocman/Krogt21 1637 1:301(3) b Appendix, Atlantis Latin Koeman 1637 ME -1 7 Appendix Atl antis Latin Clancy22 1639 Map 6.8 Sc hilder23 1639 Lc No uvea u Thea tre du Monde Map 44 T ooley24 1641 726 Dutch 246 T ooley 1641 727 French Remarkable Maps II 16-1 2 Map 5 Lc ouveau Theatre du Monde v.3/2 Map 16 WWW.li11COS.Org 29 Polus Antarcticus \ I< I' I I () I t \ ':'- I ,. ,, \I ,, ' I ~ ~! I I ... I I ~ 1 ' " 'I '· ' " / L " Map 2 The first German language Appe11dix to Atlas A Dutch version of the second state did not Polus Antarcticus, Nov 11 s was also the first atl as to include the second appear until a revision of Volume Ill in 1645 Secoud State state of "Polus Antarcti cus" when it was published [1:433.3), and reprints were iss ued up until 1658. in 16-1-1. Krogt identifies this atlas as [1:-1-23) and In 1650 the first German edition of Volume Koeman as [Me122). V, the Sea Atlas, [1 :426. 5M), was published. It Publication of this atlas was followed by a included the second state of "Polus Antarcticus." German language edition of Volume III No Latin or French atl as versions containing [l :424.3G] in 1645, and further editions were th e second state of the map arc known. published up until 1658. Table 2 First publication dates of the 2nd State of Polus Antarcticus cited by main references R e[ere11ce Year lD So11rce Text Jll11 s. Koeman/Krogt 1641 1:423 Gemun Koeman 1641 ME 122 Novi Atlantis German Schilder25 1645 Tooley26 1645 728 30 TM \:oS Tourn :1 l Third State named I .de Diege Rom ires is shifted wes tward to its l n 1650 th e third state of "Polu s Antarcti cus" was true location, and its name is corrected to I . de published in th e Dutch [1:-1- 35.5MJ, Latin Diego R m11ires. This island was discovered by [1 :404.5M], and French [1 :41 6] language editions brothers Bartolome and Gonza lo N odal on of the new Volume 5 of Atlantis Majoris. A February 12 1619, and named in honour of their German language ve rsiOn [1 :426.50] was expedition's patron, Diego R amirez de Arellano. published in 1652. T hese changes also highlighted the offi cial This third state heralded signifi cant changes to Dutch East India Company's political problems "Polus Antarcti cus" as several discoveri es were with le Maire and Schouten's 1616 voyage and added to the map. State11 La11dt, plotted in the first discoveries . On their arrival in Batavia the two and second states of "Polus Antarcti cus" as the explorers were immediately detained and it was coastline trending eastwards from Tierra del Fu ego not until two years later that they were released in towards the Cape of Good H ope, beca me Staten the N etherl ands and their story accepted. While E yla11t , foll owing Brouwer's discoveri es of 1644. this o ffi cial acceptance was ac knowledged by Jan Other changes included the mapping of a short Janss on in his untitled globe gores of 162127, and coastline from Bame11elts Eyla11 de 11 to C. de H oom Jodocus H ondius in his 1624 re-iss ue of Blaeu's Map 3 itself (Map 3a - Tierra del Fu ego, Excerpt from wall map of 160528, it was not refl ected in "Polus Polus Antarcticus, 3rd state of Polu s A11tarctiws) . The island previously Antarcti cus." Third State 1 1 1 I ~ ~ '' I' I ll \ ,., , ~\ I • I I ·' ' ~ ' - - I II I' <· I \1 \ ' ' I~ '' ·; ' ' ' ' r ____ ..... - www.imcos.org 31 Polus Antarcticus Map 1b (right) \ . p"" Tierra del Fuego, excerpt from 1st state of Polus Antarcticus •11' .. '' ·· ' ~ .. , ,• ,...... Map Ja (far right) Tierra del Fuego, excerpt from 3 rd state of Polus Antarcticus The recording of Staten Landt, Fret11111 le Maire, (Map 3b - Cartouche Gap) . The reaso n for the and the coastline through to Bamevelts Eylanden removal of the ca rtouche is som ewhat of a (Map 1b - Tien-a del Fuego, Excerpt from 1st state mystery, as no new information was recorded in of Pol11s Antarctiws), in the first state of "Polus its place. Antarcticus" proves H ondius' detailed knowledge of However, the acid washing of the plate to the discoveti es prior to 1637. Omitted from the map remove the blank ca rtouche had a direct effect on was the key landmark, C. de Hoom, a decision whi ch the portrayal of the extensive island chai n, stretch was strangely perpetuated by Jansson in the second ing between the Solomon Islands and South state, despite his inclusion of this vital element in his Ameri ca. In the first and second states the island 1621 globe gores . Final acknowledgement of the chain stretched from 211 degrees east of th e discoveti es in "Polus Antarcticus" did not occur Azores to 25 1 degrees, before the blank ca rtouche, until publication of the third state, some 13 years then from 269 to 300 degrees after. With the after the first state appeared. removal of the ca rtouche the island chain was One other change not linked to these discov broken into two parts. The Solomon Islands end, eries was the removal of the blank cartouche (Map from 211 degrees to 250 degrees, and the South 2c - Cartouche), and the resulting blank space Ameri ca n end, from 272 degrees to 287 degrees. Map 2c (rigl•t) cartouche gap from I 2nd state ofPolus Antarcticus ~ J i' E I. I ' ( I! r \-- ;I Map Jb (far right) a gap replaces the \ cartouche in tl1e Jrd state of Polus . ~ Antarcticus c ' I " ' .A Table 3 First publication dates of the 3rd State of Polus Antarcticus cited by main references Referen ce Year I D Source Publisher Text Ill us. Kocman/ Krogt 1650 1 :404.5M Atlantis M;Uoris Quinta Pars Latin 1 :435.5M Dutch 1 :416 French Kocman 1650 Me164 Atlantis M;Uoris Quinta Pars Latin Me168 Dutch Me171 French Clancy 1650 Jansson Schilder 1650 Map 44 Tooley 1650 Plate 124 Jansson 32 IMCoS Journal Fourth State of 1628, were finally attributed in this fourth state. Map 4 The historically important discoveries of Abel These same physical limitations also prevented the Polus Antarcticus Fo11rtlr State Janszoon Tasman and Franchoijs Jacobszoon recording ofTasman's discovery ofTonga and Fiji Visscher on their 1642-3 and 1644 expeditions on his 1642-3 voyage. fom1ed the basis of the final changes to "Polus The islands of Amsterdam and P.S. Paulo in the Antarcticus," creating a fourth state (Map 4 - Indian Ocean between Mamitius and the west coast Polus Antarcticus - Fourth State). of Australia were also included in the fourth state. A11t. Va11 Diem LL111dt (Tasmania) and l\'ova The first publication of the fourth and final state Zeela11dia (New Zealand) were recorded, including of ''Polus Antarcticus" was fittingly in the Dutch all of their geographic features Tasman named revision of Volume 5 [1 :435.50] published in 1652. (Map 2b - Early Dutch Australian Discoveries A revised Latin version of Volume 5 appeared in (2nd State), and Map 4a - Tasman's Discoveries). 1657 [1:405.5T]. There are no known Gem1an or While the physical limitations of the map itself French atlas versions of the fourth state. prevented the mapping of Tasman's actual discov Tooley (731) also records a de Wit edition eries on the northern coastline of Australia, the 1680, without text verso and (732) the same map knowledge of his voyage is recorded in the text without text verso but the imprint "Apud G. Valk "detect Anno 1644" placed adjacent to the discovery et P.Schenk Amstel." added at the bottom of the area. Similarly, knowledge of De Witt's discoveries sphere on the map. This is illustrated as Plate 56. www.imcos.org 33 Polus A ntarcticus ; I ~ . .., Map 2b Early Dutclr Australian Discoveries from Polus Antarcticus 2nd State Map 4a Tasman's Discoveries from Polus Antarcticus 4th State Table 4 First publication dates of the 4th State of Polus Antarcticus cited by main references Riference Year ID Source Publisher Text Il/115. Krogt 1652 1:435.50 Atlantis Majoris Koeman 1652 Me169a Atlantis M :\4 Tl\.tf l'n<; T n 11 r n~l Author' s Note Atlantis Majoris This catalogue evolved during the autho r's l 1630 (1 :107] I research for his paper "The M ys teri ous Eastl and R evealed". H e wishes to record his acknowledge 1637" 1637 + y I ment of the invaluable assistance he received from: L8tin Dutch 1638 163618 Dutch • Peter va n de Krogt, his magnificent Koe111an's Appendix Appendix 1639 L8tin 1063N Vo l. 2 108 5p 1641 French Vol. 3 Atlantes Neerlandici: New Edition , and his personal [1 :301 ) [1 :332) 120 P(3N) German Vol . 3 98, 5G Me 47 Me48 I [1 :4312A] assista nce to the author; Atlas Novus 112, 51 [1·40131\] 8630 50 [1'411.36 Me508 • Simon Dewez of the Gowrie Gall eri es, Sydney, [1:423] Me938 w ho provided the im.ages of three of the map states Me122 and the benefit ofh.is deep knowledge of the subj ect; 1646 • D ave Small, Map C urator of the National German Library (Alexander T urnbull Library) in N ew Vol. 3 9535 Z ealand, for his assistance in the li brary and his [1 :424.3G] Me122 help to clarify the confusion; and 1647 • Ed.i, for her ever-present encouragement and support. Referen ces: Clancy, R obert, Th e M appi11g of Terra A 11 st ralis, Macquari e Park, N .S. W. Universal Press, 1995 D ew ez, Simon, The Primed World Ill, Sydney, Gowri e Gall eri es Pty Ltd. 2002 Koem an, Come lis, At/ames S eerla11dici. Bibliq(!mphy of ten·es trial, 111miti111e mrd celestial atlases a11d pilot books, p11blished ill the .\'etherlmrds 11p to 1880. Compiled and edited by C. Koeman, Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1967- 1985 Koe111 a11's A t/ames l\'eerla 11dici: New Editio11 , Vol. 1: Tire Folio Atlases P11 blished by Gera rd Mercator, J odows Ho11 di11s, He111iws Ho11di11s, j ohm111es ]a11sso11ills mrd Th eir S 11 ccessors I compiled by [Je ter van der Krogt. - 't Goy-Houten: HES Publishers, 1997 Schilder, Gunter G., A11stralia u11veiled: the share qf tir e D11 tch 11 av(eators i11 the discovery of A 11 stmlia; translated fr om th e German by Olaf Richter. Amsterdam , Thea trum O rbis T errarum, 1976 Shlrley, R odn ey W ., 17·re 111appi11g of tire 111orld: earl y pri11ted C ba rt 1 - Polus Antarcticus, Publication C ha rt of the 4 Sta tes world 111aps 1472- 1700, London, Holland Press, 1987 T ooley, l'l... .V. The Mappi11g of A11stralia a11d A 11tarctica, Library, Wellington , arc, in centimetres, 50 x 44 (1st London, The Holl and Press Ltd., 1985 state), 48.8 x 43.1 (4th state), and 49.3 x 43.4 (4th state) . M aps Examples recorded by Gowrie Galleri es, Sydney, are 49 Pol11 s A 11tarctiws, First State, 1636 x 43 (1st state), 49.6 x 43.6 (2nd state), 49 x 43 (2nd Pol11 s A 11tarctiws, Second State, 1641 state) 48 x 42.6 (4th state), 48.5 x 43 (4th state) . Pol11 s A 11tarctic11 s, T hird State, 1650 7. Pers. Com. , 12 O ctober, 2002 Pol11 s A 11tarctic11 s, Fourth State, 1652 8. Krogt, Peter va n de, 'Amsterdam Atlas Producti on in C hart 1 - Polus A.ntarcticus, Publication C hart of the 4 States the 1630s: a bibliographer's ni ghtmare', f111 ago J\1'1111 di 48 (1996) : 149- 160 N otes: 9. T ooley, op. cit., p.98 1. Clancy, R obert, The ,Uappi11g of Terra A 11 stra lis, 10. Dewez, Simon, Th e Pri 11 ted Wo rld lll, Sydney, Macquari c Park, N .S.W., Universal Press, 1995, p. 124 Gowri e Gall eri es Pty Ltd. 2002, # 72, p. 31 2. Tooley, R .V. The ,\1appi11g of A 11 stralia a11 d A marctica, 11. Schilder, Gunter G., A 11 stra lia U11 veiled: the share of London, The Holl and Press Ltd. , 1985 the D11tch 11avigators i11 the discovery of A 11 stralia; translated 3. H em;cus Hondius was the so n of Jodi cus H ondius from the German by Olaf Richter. Amsterdam , th e eld er, broth er of Jodicus Hondius, and brother-in Theatrum Orbis T crrarum, 1976, p.72 law of Jan Jansso n 12. Koe111a11's Atla11tes Neerla11dici: New Editio11 , Vol. 1: 4. Clancy, op. cit., p.124 The Folio Atlases P11blished by Gerard Mercator, Jodow s 5. Pcrs. Com., Simon D ewez, Gowri e Ga ll eri es, Ho11di11s, H en riws Ho11di11s, Joharmes jaiiSSO ilills a11d Their Sydn ey, 3 1 O ctober 2002 Successors I compiled by Peter van der Krogt. - 't Goy 6. T he three states held by the Al exander Turnbull H outen: HES Publishers, 1997 WWW.l!TlCOS.Or g 35 Polus Antarcticus 13. R eferences in this paper to different atl ases foUow va n de Krogt in the fom1 fl :301J, and Kocman in the form 1M e47] 14. Koeman, Cornelis, A tla11tes Neerlaudici. Bibliography of terrestrial , maritime and celesti al atlases and pilot books, published in the N eth erl ands up to 1880. Compiled and edited by C. Koeman , Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Tcnarum, 1967-1985 15. Pers. Com., 14 and 25 June 2002, Dr Jacob van Sluis, Provinsjale Bibli oteck fan Fryslan. This Libraty holds a copies of both th e Latin and Dutch ve rsions of the atlas. 16. Koeman, Cornelis, Atla11tes Nee rla11dici. Bib]jography of terrestt;ai, maritime and celesti al atla ses and pilot books, publi shed 111 th e N eth erl ands up to 1880.Compiled and edited by C. Koeman, Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis T enarum, 1967-1 985, Me50B 17. Koeman/van de Krogt, op. cit. 18. Pers. Com. , 12 O ctober, 2002 19. Koeman Me50A 20. Peter van de Krogt records this atlas as havin g a 1638 publicati on date R emarkabl e Maps 21. Koeman/van de Krogt, op. cit. , p.l-16 32. T oole y, op. cit. , p. 98 22. Clancy, op. cit. , p.80 Map 6.8 + ' p.48 33. Printed on map at bottom centre. 23. Schilder, op. cit. , p.330 24. T ooley, op. cit .. p. 98 Michael R oss is Chain11an of th e Joint Intemational 25. Schilder, Gunter, A ustra lia U11 veiled, p.330 Cotiference Olga nising Co tlltllittee cif. th e 26th IMCoS 26. T ooley, op. cit., p. 98 Sympos iu111 du e to be held 10th_J3th February, 2008 27. Shirley , op. cit. , # 308, pl.234 in Wellington, Nell' Z ealand. He is also President of 28. ibid .. # 310, pl.236 the Australian Map Circle and a me111ber of both 29. On the left hand side of th e map IMCoS and the New Z ealand Map Society . This article 30. Clan cy, op, cit. , p.73, p126 was first published i11 The Globe, the joumal of the 31. Schilder, op. cit. , p. 398, map 78, so urced from Australia11 Map Circle. 36 IMCoS Journal Jo Ann and Richard Casten, Ltd. 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Available in hardbac k and paperback and through this book one can discover more of in the British Library bookshop. ISBN 978-0- the social and political history of London. It 71 23-4918-5 (hardbac k). Price £ 25. ISBN 978-0- fo ll ows the sa me evolutionary timeline and carto 7123-4919-2 (paperbac k). Price £ 14.95. graphic themes as the exhibition. Its chapter (titl es in itali cs) give us additional infom1ation on acti vi In the Spring j ournal I mentioned this book in ti es and places whi ch we may have heard of but my revtew of the recent exhibition of the sa me know little about - Frost Fairs on the Tha111 es, for example, or the double dome of St. Pa11l 's Cathedral or BediaJ II and l\'e111ga re. It shows us the extent of the pt;ncipal aristocratic estates devel oped in the W est End in the 18th and early- 19th centuries, the legacy of w hi ch is ever present in the names of our sq uares -Bedford, Portman, Berkeley, Cadogan and so on. T here is a chapter on Hogarth's Lo 11don, particularly relevant for visitors to London in the next few months as there has been an excel lent exhibition of H ogarth's work on at T ate Bt;tain recently. The Tate Gall ery even features in this book as its Millbank locati on is converted from a priso n to a gall ery. London's explosive growth put pressure on urban planners. Two chapters feature examples of this - Chelsea Waten110 rks addresses the iss ue of providing sufficient fres h water for 18th_centmy inhabitants and Victorian Ce1neten"es the issue of enough burial space for 19th_century inhabitants. Fashio11. ab /e S11 V11rbs and U1!fashionab/e Suburbs are gi ven equal focus, th e latter 100 years after the fonTi er. The breadth of coverage means that as the 20th centmy approaches, issues of housing, publi c building, public utilities and health have been j oined by pressing issues of tra nsportation - bridges, roads, railways. London's fi rst industrial estate, at Park R oyal, am ves early in the 20th century and its latest industrial venture, The Tra niforlllation of Docklands, takes place at the end of the century. T lus book stands on its own as an interesting read. Its fo rmat of short chapters makes it easy to dip into and it is illustrated with an abundance of maps. As I mentioned before it makes an ideal present for anybody w ho has visited London. Jenny H arvey 40 TM l'.n'\ T n 11 rn~ l Cypr11s 1542. The great map of the island by why his cartographic skills were not followed by Leonida Attar, by Francesca Cavazzana his successors. Either the map was too important Romaneili and Gilles Grivaud. Nicosia: Bank of for Venetian officials to permit it to be widely Cyprus Cultural Foundation. 2006. 60 pp. text in circulated, or it remained the property of its English, 45 colour ills, l7 pp. 01iginal documents patron. Cosmo Da Mosto, buried in the family in Italian, 12 pp. toponyms on the map, fold-out archives, until it found its way to the library of of the map, paperback. ISBN 9963-42-848-7. Teodoro Correr some three hundred years later, Price not stated. and again lay hidden till very recently. The illustrations are clear and well referenced IMCoS members who attended the sympo in the text. Included arc all the maps referred to, sium in Cyprus in 2003 will already know much and many details of Attar's map. A minor irritation about this map of the island by Leonida Attar, and to those not able to read Italian arc the original have enjoyed seeing it on display at the Levcntis documents, quoted at length in Appendices, but Museum. This volume now ties in all the research with no translation. More useful, perhaps, is the into its background, the available knowledge of list of toponyms, transctibed from the original, the cartographer, and the importance of this very divided by district (contrada), with one of the ten detailed map for a picture of Cyprus in the middle relevant iconographic symbols used on the map. of the 16th century. It is a handsomely produced This is a fine work of scholarship, an example work and the illustrations are magnificent. of the rich rewards to be won by detailed research The text is divided into three sections. The into hard-to-locate and diverse sources. first deals with the background to the construction of maps in this period and what little is known of Susan Gole Attar's capability in this field. Following the need for nautical charts, with their emphasis on coastal shapes and dangers, came the need for accurate aids for taxation, especially in newly acquired lands, as Cyprus was for the V cnetians. The pres- FRANCESCA CAVAZZANA ROMANELLI ence of the arms of the Da Mosto family link it to G ILLES GRIVAUD the year-long stay on the island by Cosmo Da Mosta, and possibly the map was prepared to ass ist him in land assessment and judicial administration in his role as 'a sort of itinerant inspector of CYPRUS 1542 V cnice's eastern possessions'. However this led to Da Mosto's claimjng that the powerful Cornaro THE GREAT MAP OF THE ISLAND BY family illegally held large properti es on the island, LEONIDA ATTAR and on his return to Venice state requirements overwhelmed truth, the Cornaro's remained in power, and Da Mosto died shortly after. The second section discusses the map itself, and the large amount of detail that Attar was able to include. In 1533 a list of 400 villages had been prepared in V cnice, and Pagano's map of 1538 supplied 273 place names. But Attar, using a much larger scale (his map measures 640 x 1390 mm), named 656 villages and towns and a further 36 without toponyms. His attention to detail for the natural drainage systems and defensive fortifica tions led to later appointments by Venice for these tasks. Further proof of his capability is shown in the detailed symbols used for villages and towns. However, villages are spread all over the map, even in the bleak Troodos mountains, so clearly all TilE UANK OF CYPRUS CULTURAL FOUNDATION the map was not drawn from personal knowledge, although ail the villages named did exist at the time, even if not where they are shown. A short third section explains why Attar's map had no influence on later maps of the island, or www.imcos.org 41 Book Reviews 400 Jahre Johannes Mejer (1606-1674): der Mejer's life and work was overwhelnungly grosse Kartograph aus Husum by Oswald devoted to the twin dukedoms of Schleswig and of Dreyer-Eimbcke. KomRegis Verlag, Oldenburg, Holstein, split between what is today Dem11ark and 2005, 96pp. with c.79 illustrations (some in Gemuny. His education was in Copenhagen where colour); paperback, ISBN 3-938501-12-X. Price he excelled in mathematics (essential for a good Euros 19. surveyor) and in astrology (necessary then still for advancement with some nobility and royalty). Last year (2006) was the quartercentenary of the Following return to his native Husum it was as a authenticated discovery of Australia by the Dutch and smveyor and cartographer of both current and of the birth of a leading smveyor and cartographer, historical subjects that he made his greatest regional Johannes Mejer of Husum, Gennany. A previous contribution: so much so that many of his nearly President of IMCoS, Oswald Dreyer-Eimbcke, 500 maps - when neither lost nor destroyed - became fascinated with Mejer whilst writing his remain in manuscript (one of Paradise is in the book Geschichte der Kartographie a111 Beispiel von Royal Library, Copenhagen). His surveys were Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein (Oldenburg: often commissioned by the dukes and resulted in KomRegis Verlag, 2005) and proceeded to expand detailed topographic maps recording the landscape; on his latest 'hero'. The result is 400 Jahre Johannes along the North Friesian Islands coast especially, Mejer (1606-1674) ... , an ideal accompanying guide with its problems of intemal drainage and extemal to, and momento of, the exhibition mounted by erosion, he met with similar problems of land the Sch.if:fal·J.rtsmuseum Nordfriesland in Husum, management faced by the Dutch further south.. He the subject's town ofbirth. went on a study tour of Holland in 1637. Another similar activity of the Dutch.- herring fishing (if cartographer W.J. Blaeu's early years) caused Mejer, due to arguments over herring fences, to produce a 43-map manuscript atlas of Der gro~e the estuary of the river Schlei (whence, inciden tally, Schle[i]swig). A related overview map Kartograph 'Accuratissima Sliae Flununis Descriptio' (with 21 detailed insets) dated 1649 was then engraved for pubbcation, with other maps and town plans he produced with Dutch-influenced cartouche design, in Caspar Danckwerth's book Newe Landesbesclzreibung Der Zwey Herz ogthiimer Schles1vich und Holstein (Schleswig, 1652). Other than Mejer's thematic maps- including one of Helgoland ('Holy Land') depicted as believed to look in 800, 1300 and in 1649 - for most book collections and map collectors it is the folio Newe Landesbesclzreibung.. that encapsulates .~ his most public and long-lasting cartographic achievements. Of its 40 copper-engraved map plates, sold (via Adam Olearius) for 'a song' by Danckwerth's widowed sister-in-law in 1657 to Joan Blaeu, 32 were used in the latter's Atlas Maior volumes 1 and 3 (1659 Spanish edition, or 1662 Latin edition, onwards). Details of these are given in Koeman 's Atlantes eerlandici, new edition, vol. II by Peter van der Krogt (HES & De Graaf, 2000) - a work surprisingly omitted from the author's 92 non-web sources from 1652 to 2006 bsted on pp.91-94 and 96. Another onussion of fact by both distinguished 21st century authors is that three of Mejer's maps nom1ally have a pasted-over re-engraved title/ dedication cartouche intended to cover partially-erased earlier versions. These plates are, using the numbers as bsted in the 'Inhalt dieses Werckes' of the Ne1ve Landesbeschreibrmg . .. :- 42 I MC:oS Tourml Tab. VI: ' Nordertheil des Hertzogthumbs case of 'new wine in old bottles'' This fact might Schl eswieg. Serenissimo, Celsissimoq. Principi ac interest bibliophiles rather than cartophiles. Our Dom.ino D[om.i]no Christiano vi .' is the undated present map-collecting author, however, offers guid title & dedication ca rtouche pasted over the ori gi nal ance on how to distinguish between original dated 1650; Blaeu's re-engraved ca rtouche begins Dankwerth 1652 and Blaeu's later issues of the maps: 'Ducatus Sleswici pars borealis. Sercniss[i]mo . "nur d.ie letzteren sind ti.i ckseitig bedruckt" (only the Celsiss[i]mo. Principi ac Dom.ino D. C hristiano VI .. latter are printed on the verso). Tab. VII: (a) 'Landtcarte Vom Sudertheil des The comparatively few maps which had the H ertzogthumbes Schleswieg. Anno 1650.' ; (b) happy fate to be engraved had a value far beyond lllustriss imo, Celsissimoq. Principi ac Domino what Mejer might ever have dreamed. Twice D[omiJno, Friderico .. .' Here Blaeu re-engraved th e Dreyer-Eimbcke succinctly expresses this: "Fast aile title ca rtouche (a) as 'Duca tus Sleswici pars meridion Kartographen, die bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhundetts ali s.'; but Mejer's separate pasted-ove r dedicatio n panel irgendwo auf der W elt Karten von Schleswig (b) was re- engraved until above th e thi ck double lines Holstein publizierten, kopierten Mejer" (until the and the Petersen brothers (e ngravers)' names at the end of the 18th century nea rly all cartographers who bottom, and altered the dedicatee: 'Illustribq, Magnificis published maps of Schleswig-Holstein, anywhere in ac Strenuiss imis Dominis, D[omiJno C hristiano the world, copied M ejer). If you cannot afford Thomaeo Seefeldt, .. .' Mejer's original maps you can certainly afford this Tab.XXII: 'Sudertheill des Amptes Gottorf. most readable and generously illustrated (ofi:en from Generoso, Strenuo ac Splendido, Dn. Ernesto the author's own collecti on), vade meCHm. Christophoro a Gunteroth . . Anno 1651' is the pasted-over title & dedication cartouche. Blaeu has Francis Herbert, London amended Mejer's original cartouche, reverting to the original engraved date: 'Praefecturae Gottorpiensis pars Corrigenda Francis Herbert's 'Royal australis. Viro Nobili amplissimo & prudentissimo Dn. Geographical Society : inventory of maps on lohanni H ekelauer ... Anno 1649.'! display, 9th June 2006' in IMCoS ] o11mal, Spring This characteristic can be seen in both copies - 2007, issue 108, pp.28-31:- with uncoloured plates of the Newe (i) The 'Notes' to item no.l should refer to the La11desbeschreibu11g in the Royal Geographical Society article on pp.22-27 (not 22-47) of The Map (with IBG) Map Room's collection, especially in Collector, June 1986, issue 35. that personally inscribed "To the Royal (ii) The 'Notes' to item no.lO should spell the Geographical Society presented by Dr. P[eter] Will. author of the bound-in map 'Audience de Forchhammer hon Corresp of the Royal Geogr. Guatimala' incorrectly as 'N. Sanson d'Ableville' Society Kiel (Holstein) 12 Oct 1877." (not- as expected- the correct form 'Abbeville'). Forchhammer, a philologist and antiquarian, was Jason Hubbard's most promising suggestion for the bom in 1803 - in Husum! An add.itional peculiarity origin of this map was possibly a mid-1730s of the Forchhammer copy is that its pig-skin blind edition ofThomas Gage's Nouvelle relation des Indes stam.ped binding (front and back) is from the tools of Occidentales ... dans la Nouvelle Espagne ... traduit Hans Cantzler of Wittenberg who d.ied in 1580: a de l'Anglois. PARK GU\DE www.imcos.org 43 You WRITE To Us The Guatemala Symposium Ephemeral Maps Jens and Erika Bomholt received many letters of I was delighted to sec Dennis Reinhartz's article gratitude for the work they had put into organising "Ephemeral Maps" in the Spting issue of the the IMCoS syn1posium 111 Guatemala in February IMCoS Joumal. In this country, few people have this year. The following are extracts from just a few. written on map-related ephem era or collected it, in spite of the context it provides for official and "Now back at home after the wonderful conference conm1ercial map publishing worldwide. Judging and sight-seeing tours I ca n se nd both many by the number of rcferen ces in Professor congratulations, and wann thanks, for all the effort Reinhartz's notes, its importance is more widely you both put in to make the gathering so success recognised in the US. R ecognition is good news ful. The advance planning, marketing, and staff for students and collectors, because it means work were excellent and if there were (inevitably) preservation. so me little snags here and there I did not notice Maps of th e sort that Professor Reinhartz because they were smoothly dealt with, especially desctibes are, indeed, ephemera by all accepted by Erika ...... IMCoS 2007 will set a high sta ndard definitions - as ephemeral maps, they belong in for a long time and I was fascinated to learn a little the same category as map ephemera in general - bit about colourful Guatemala and the elusive but publishers' catal ogues, lists, leaflets, posters, proofs, still pervasive Mayan civilisa ti on of the past". letterheads, or T -shirts for that matter. I would, however, quarrel with his (a nd Mr Manasek's) Rodney Shirley, Buckingham, England definition of road maps as ephemera, and therefore, by their definition , la cking "long or lasting value." "What a wondetful conference you organized! Are Britain's Ordnance Survey maps or those of What marvell ous tours you arranged! Thank you the US Geological Survey, or of their French and so much for all the tim.e and effort th at we know German equivalents, "e phemeral"~ To the public, goes into planning such petfect arrangements for a all are road maps; they are useful for as long as they large number of various and sundry international are up-to-date; and their usefulness might last characters. many years. The sa me goes for the better cla ss of The conference facilities were wonderful, the commercial mapping from houses such as hotels were superb, the food arrangements were Bartholomew, Rand McNally or Michelin. outstanding, the escorts and transportation were good, the map exhibits were well curated, the Tim Nicholson, London tours were all encom.passing - w hat more ca n we say. Well, let me try .... There are four items from Guatemala in the book One tliousaud places to see bifore you die and we saw them all." QuoTE FRoM A Jeanne and Tom Sander, W as hington, USA ~ORMERDAY " ! cannot help thinking that in disc ussions of this "Now that we are back home .... we would like kind, a great deal of misapprehension arises from to .... thank you for the immense efforts you have the popular use of maps o n a small scale. As with made to show us so much in such a short time of the such maps you are able to put a thumb on India beautiful country in which you li ve. But first we and a finger on Russia, some persons at once think want to look back at the incredible way you (and all that the political situation is alamling and that the people from the university) organised the India must be looked to. If the noble Lord would symposium. The lectures, exhibitions, coffee use a larger map - say one on the scale of the breaks ... th e excursions, the special evenings, the Ordnance Map of England - he would find that ma1imba players and the marvellous book that Jens the distance between Russia and British India is wrote. It was all overwheli.Tling ...... We really not to be measured by the finger and thumb, but would like to thank you for all your fa ntastic work. by a rule." Rinus Ostermann and Helene va n der Kl ey, Lord Salisbury 1830-1903 The Netherlands House of Commo ns, 11th June 1877 44 IMCoS Tournal IMCoS MATTERS June weekend there is talk of restoration) it was exciting to view. Last chance to sign up for the IMCoS annual It hung originally in the riding school at Welbeck dinner to be held on 8th June at the East India Abbey and was partly funded for the library by Club, StJames's Square, London SWlY 4LH, Aldem1an Cadbury. At a large scale and printed 7.30 for 8 pm. Also the AGM and Malcolm R . (Left) Young lectures to be held on 9th June at the Hand Pam Williams, the and Flower Function Room in Hammersmith Subject Librarian, Road, London W1 (across the road from Olympia who showed us some of tire priceless where the Map Fair will be taking place). atlases in the Central Library, IMCoS visit to Birmingham many donated by Report by Valerie Newby Alderman Cadbury I wonder how many people are aware of the in tire 1930s. (Photo by David Webb) amazing coll ection of 40 rare atl ases held in Bim1ingham Central Library? Only those I suspect who have a copy of Phillip Allen's The Atlas of Atlases, published in 1992, which describes this unique archive, part ofThe Cadbury Collection. The atlases were bought by Aldennan W. Cadbury (of chocolate fame) and donated to the library at the beginning of the Second World War. About 20 members of IMCoS were treated to a private viewing of half the coll ection on Saturday, 16th December, when we gathered 111 Bim1ingham for a map day organised by I MCoS Secretary, Stephen Williams. H e is currently studying at Binningham University for a doctorate. (Below) Alderman Cad bury was Chairman of the Libraries Some of the IMCoS Committee in his day and he ensured that both members who viewed the Central Library and the University Library the map collections held coll ections of maps. at Birmingham On display at the Centra] Library were so me Central Library. extremely rare items including two copies of (Photo by David C hristopher Saxton's Atlas of England and W ales Webb) (second printing of 1579); a copy of Joan Blaeu's Cra 11d Atlas, Amsterdam 1667, Antonio Lafi·e1-i's Ceog rafia published in Rome between 1580 and 1585; four Ptolemys including the 1482 Cos111ographiae with woodcut maps by Nicolaus Gen11anus. This was the earliest printed Ptolemy in the collection. We also inspected two copies of John Norden's Spewlum Brita11niae printed in London in 1593 and 1598. Guiding us through the collection was the Subject Librarian, Pam Williams, who was involved in the publication of Phillip Allen's book. We were also treated to some maps from the Library's post -1700 collection and local maps of Binningham put on display by the Map Librarian, Richard Abbott. But first he showed us the onl y surviving copy of Christopher Saxton's wall map of England and Wales from the first printing in 1583. Although a little bit worse for wear (a nd www.imcos.org 45 IMCoS Matters IMCoS GUATEMALA Song, Dance and Demographics By Barbara Keck Somewhere between the ever-present bird songs, and the music that pounds the streets and spills out from the hotel discos and strcetsidc bar typicos, you can have a conversation with loca l Guatemalans that will go something like this: "Antique Maps;> Do we have antique maps in Guatemala? ls there a shop somewhere?" It's exciting to be in a country where the collection premise is not yet established. A few businessnlen or antiquarians may have some maps in their homes but the usual response from Guatemalan acquaintances and fancily members is: ''I'll ask my friends, we'll sec where they are, I'll Riclrard Abbott, find some for you." Map Librariarr of Guatemala is a third world country in many the Cerrtral Library, ways. The demographic map of the country and bro11ght o11t some of of Guatemala City is being rapidly redrawn. Birth tire Library's post- 1700 maps for us to rates among the indigenous peoples continue to be view. (Photo by high and the fate of the many babies is hopeful. David Webb) Some make their way into the hands of the multi on 20 sheets it predates the copy in the British tude of adoption agencies working so hard to Library which was printed in 1630. Richard also provide childless couples worldwide with a new showed us a 19th-century map of Birmingham by beloved family member with big brown eyes, John Pigott-Smith which was surveyed between tawny skin and a start on intellectual development 1822 and 1825. Also, a tithe map of the parish of from well-nourished mothers. Some n1ake their Harborne dated 1842 by the surveyor, David way as young teenagers to the cities where they McFarlane. According to a notebook accompany initially work as maids or security guards until they ing the map it took four months to complete the step up via training or education to jobs in shops survey and the surveyor and his assistant reputedly and in the booming construction industry. spent many drunken evenings in the pubs on the Computer skills are rapidly being acquired, practi way! cally everyone has a cellphonc (excellent pay-as-you We then moved on to the Lapworth Museum go systems make it easy), and literacy is on the rise. of Geology at the University of Bim1ingham for The tangle of traffic every daylight hour is an excellent talk by Canon Dr Terry Slater of the amazing. When my son was here a few years ago School of Geography (which also has maps teaching - and wooing the lovely UFM law donated by Alderman Cadbury). He compared school student Sofia, now my daughter-in-law- I Beighton's one-inch-to-the-mile map of felt my life held by those very tenuous strings Warwickshire with the map of the county at the called gravity and centrifugal force, as we hurtled same scale by the Greenwood brothers which was along the streets and through "stoptional" signs. published a century later in 1820. Dr Slater is Slow down, do slow down for the many decrepit author of A History of Wanvickshire. red people's buses ("autobus urbano") spewing The Curator of Geology then took us to the thick clouds of pollution for the eyes, lungs and new storage area for geological maps. On display skin to consume1 was a work by John MacCulloch (1773-1835), a With demographic changes, come social surgeon who changed his interest to geology. It changes. Here in Guatemala, a modem thematic took him 16 to 20 years to survey the first geolog cartographer would be constantly re-doing his ical map of Scotland and sadly he died in a carriage engraving plate. One lav.ryer, two lav.ryers, three accident on his honeymoon before it was lav.ryers, four I The tangle of regulations that try to published. preserve some equity for the peoples of the past as This was a most infonnative and interesting capital passes to newer residents is enomlous. The day and thanks are due to all those who took part markets are flooded with cheap Chinese clothes; I and in particular to our secretary, Stephen bought a fully lined two-piece linen pantsuit for Williams, who organised it. 35.00 USD and a summer blouse for 1.25 USD - 46 IMCoS Journal - as well as Chinese cards, appliances, leather goods, electronics, beauty care products. The small Mom & Pop Guatemalan-owncd shops are being replaced by shops owned by the hard-work ing Chinese with their low cost of goods sold. How docs one put a chisel point on such rapid changes? As for a map of the city plan, that too will see rapid erasures and new etchings. The quaint cobbled road built 200 years ago to lead down Tire imposirrg from the hilltop community of my new f:1mily arclrrvay to tire Quirrta Real /rote/ members (all lawyers and judges, by the way) is irr Guatemala City. foresworn most days for the ease of newly paved (Piroto by David roads that present a more circuitous but faster Webb) route. The hidden entrance to the fami ly UFM belies. Set on 50 acres of woodland in the compound is very busy these days, as no fewer middle of the city, the university founders have than three big apartment towers and 40 single accomplished their 1971 goal of creating an excel fami ly homes being built butt-to-butt arc visible lent university set on a campus that preserves the from the house of my consuela (mother of my luxuriant natural setting and biological diversity of daughter-in-law). H er most recent home Guatemala, "The Garden Country." improvement is a shiny new line of electrified Our first experience of the wonderful hospitality razor wire all along the top of the 10 foot walls of our Guatemalan hosts was the morning defining her lovely casa -a house built only seven desayuno service on the spacious stone and glass years ago with no near neighbours and lovely plaza in front of the conference auditorium, which views on all sides. All this changed in less than a is named afi:er Juan Bautistia Gutierez, the founder decade! of the successful food service company Polio Unlike most IMCOS members, I will be in Campero, a great believer in the ideals of solidarity Guatemala every year. It is just a short hop from and community service; many of the connibutions the Miami Map Fair, and there will be grandchil of his foundation work to raise the living standards dren to celebrate, advanced university degrees to of Guatemalans and encourage participative and monetize in one way or another, and hospitalities ethical ptinciplcs in the search for equality. Fresh to exchange. I fear for the impact of rapid popu papaya nectar and excellent Guatemalan coffee lation growth, but cheer the industriousness of the with tasty typical pastries greeted us each day old and new citizens. Guatemala is an important before the lectures began. Some members dirrirrg a/ fresco irr part of the landbridge to the rest ofLatin America, The first day's afternoon excursion was to the Guatemala and as oil politics shifts to land-resource politics, National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. (Piroto by David we will all appreciate what it is like to wake up to Luncheon in the setting of imposing M ayan stelae Webb) a Latino desayuno in the future. IMCoS members at large in South America Report by Barbara Keck "Half the fun of studying old maps is to sec w here our forebears went wrong," said a speaker early in the academic programme of IMCoS Guatemala 2007, held Feb 4-7 at Guatemala City's beautiful Universidad Francisco Marroquin (UFM). Over three days, 90 collectors from 15 different countries of the world leamed about the histmy of cartography in Central America, a region that in many ways was historically given short-shrift as merely a thin landmass connecting North and South America. The lovely conference hotel Quinta Real looks out serenely over a hillside setting of rolling green lawns that give no hint of the fast-paced and urgently-growing city below. Shuttle buses from the hotel to the University thrust participants into the middle of amazing traffic surges and jams, a super-urban busyness that the tranquil campus of www.imcos.org 47 IMCoS Matters Erika Bomholt, one Associati on, ANAC AFE. W e tasted the distinct of the organisers of differences between the eight regional coffees that the G11atemala Guatemala supplies to the specialty gounnet coffee symposi11m, caught admiring a map at markets of the world (my personal favorite are the exhibition in tir e coffees from the Antigua area) . In an interesting Universidad ti e-in to IMCoS interes ts, we learned how coffee Fra11cisco growers are usin g satellite images for better agro Marroquin, G11atemala nomic practi ces that augm ent quality control. Afternoon sessions of the last conference day featured a choice of campus tour, a trip to a handi craft market, and a visit to the baroque Metropolitan Cathedral and the eccles iasti cal iconography of La M erced church. The fourth option, a round table di scussion of coll ecti on securi ty hosted by David Cobb of the Harvard University librari es, imparted lessons on life after Forbes Smiley. Sadly, one Below, from left to from the jungles of Peten, intricate polychrome riglrt: ] errs P. pottery, jade and other arti f.K ts, was a thrill. T he Bonrholt, talk by archaeologist Richard H anse n noted that Symposi"'n the M ayan , unlike other earl y complex societi es, Organiser and did no t rely on riverine locales. His perspecti ve IMCoS National o n the diffic ulties of doing archaeological explo Representative for ration in an area of jungle-shrouded volcanoes C entral America, pict11red with surrounded by indigenous villages gave IMCoS Giancarlo Ibarq11en, members a deeper appreciation fo r the m use um's President of UFM well cura tcd coll ectio ns. (Universidad T he highlight of the second day was the Frattci.sco evening opportunity to dine with UFM governors Marroq11in), ]olur in their gracious homes. Set in hills above the H ebert, Chief of the city's bustl e, the homes fea tured verandas and Geography and Map Division, Library of gardens, colonial Spanish architecture and artifac ts, Congress, USA and and world-class hospitali ty. R elaxi ng and talking Richard Kagmr of with o ur hosts w as a welcome oasis of quiet tir e John Hopkins fo ll owing the hecti c midday scenes of G uatemala University, C ity's comn'lercial zo ne that we saw on our city Baltimore, USA, tour and subsequent trip to the open air scale three of tire speakers model "R eli ef Map of G uatemala." at tire symposi11m. (Photo by David O ur last day's excursio ns in cl uded luncheon Webb) and coffee sa mpling at the G uatemalan Coffee outcome will be restricted access to many important maps. In the ncar li1ture, such maps will be held in va ults and only available fo r short visits under guarded conditions; high quality facsimiles will greet the eyes of the non- researcher public. Cobb's advice to IMCOS members: photo or image cvety thing you own, and maintain a good digital cata logue of your coll ection. H e also noted that it could be wise to provide ownership indication in the margins or on the back of maps, and mentioned that the U.S. Libraty of Congress will provide preservation quality ink at no charge. A general consensus of this round table is that there is a need for a unified "missing maps" list, as many maps have still not found their way back to the university and museum collections from which Smiley took them. Cobb and others expressed a hope that IMCOS woul d work on this project as part of its growing website offeri ngs. Plrotograplrer David Webb (far left) sporting Iris /rome-made cartographic t-shirt. A temple in Yaxlra. Altlro11glr it is lrard to spot tlrem, tlrere are me,rbers of IMCoS on tire top. (Piroto by I..eif Akesson) Speakers at the symposium included Sam market, we were also impressed by the church Bonis "Landscapes of Guatemala," Hector w hi ch was built on top of an old Maya temple. The Monzon Despang "The Guatemalan Volcanic market was worth a chapter of its own; on the stalls Lmg standing Arc: a blue-green, fire-born land," Richard D. was everything from radios to vegetables and from Japanese member of Hansen "Mapping the Mirador Basin: exploration famung equipment to embroideries. Besides that IMCoS, Kazrmrasa and new technology in the cradle of Maya civi we were offered many pieces of jewellery by old Yamaslrita li zation ," j ohn Hebert "The search for and young natives strolling through the streets. (opposite page), Interoceanic Comm.unications and the Panama People who like to bargain were able to amuse celebrated Iris 701/r Canal," R..icharJ Kagan "Perspectives on the themselves. The streets in the town, however, were birthday d11ring tire Colonial C ity; power, politics and people," not designed for modern tourist buses but skilfi.1l syrrrposi11m (Piroto Giancarlo Ib argCJen S. "Cartography and property d1ivers solved the problems in the end. by David Webb) rights," William H empstead "The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the world of coffee," Richard P£l ederer "Portolan charts of the Bay of Honduras." Post symposium excursions Report by Leif Akesson The day aft er a most fruitful symposll1m 111 Guatemala City it was time for the first post symposium tour wh.ich was to the Guatemalan Highlands. Early on the morning of grh February three buses filled with IMCoS members and their relatives, with red, green or blue handkerchiefs around their necks, left Guatemala City. Quite a few had been hit by Montezuma's revenge, but fortunately they could all be helped through Erikal To guarantee our physical security we were escorted throughout the journey by the special Guatemalan tourist police. Our first goal was Chichicastenango. On the way we were educated, Mayarr women ;, and entertained, by Professor Sam Bonis about Santiago Atitltin in Guatemala's geography and history. We also had a tlreir colo11Jj11l nati01ral dress practical demonstration by our guides of the tradi (Piroto by I..eif tional national costume. In "Chichi", famous for its Akessorr) WWW.ImCOS.org 49 IMCoS Matters From C hichicastenango we headed for Lago 100 of us to be taken on a second excursion. T his Atit!an, which is a caldera i.e. a chamber inside an involved a flight to Fl ores where we were bused to active volcano, w hose walls have collapsed and H otel Villa M aya by the lagoon Petenchel. Afi:er then has been fill ed with water. The lake, and its lunch (no time for a swim in the pool) we made for surroundings are considered to be one of the most the site ofYa.:m a, a vast archaeological area in a rai n beautiful places on earth and you had to agree forest reserve, where intense excavations are being with that - the deep blu e water of the lake carri ed out. W e lea m ed that it is relatively easy to reflected the surrounding row of volcanoes. raise money for the initial explorati on, but much Before the heat of the following day had harder to find sponsors fo r the ongoing mai nte reached its height we started a voyage ac ross the nance. For that reason one showed ca ution and sea and visited the town of Santiago Atitlan. H ere waited until tl1e whole fi nancing was clear; a lot of we were ta ken by tuk-tuk through winding lanes unexcavated hills bore witness to this poli cy. As long to yet another amazing market where the Maya as you do nothing these temples arc held together by people were wearing their colourful national dress. the trees that have occupied them. A three-hour tri p brought us from Atitlan to Professor Federico Fahren gave us an interesting Antigua, the former capital of Central Ameri ca, insight in the M aya people's way of thinking and w hich had been abandoned after it was almost nature itself offered many exciting experiences: totally des troyed by an ea rthquake in the mid 18th spider-monkeys, parrots and used chiclet-trees, century. H ere we had the privilege of living in w hose sap is used for manufac turing chewing Casa Santo D omingo, the best hotel in Central gum. Those of us who climbed the highest temple Ameri ca. T he hotel is rebuilt around the ruins of were rewarded by a ravishing view over blue w hat was ori ginall y a D ominican convent and the waters and green ra in fo res ts. After dinner excavati ons are still going on. Professor Fahren deepened our knowledge stiiJ N ext morning breakfast was served in the more by a lecture concerning the Maya-people's beautiful garden before the sight-seeing of hi eroglyphs and thei r symbolism. Antigua. It was not hard to imagi ne th e destructi on The following morning about 20 of us rose that the earthquake had ca used in 1773, but many before sunrise to travel to the Tikal N ature R eserve of the remnants of churches and public buildings and were rewarded with the sight of some unusual gave us an idea of how bea utiful the tow n had birds. W e strolled through the rainforest towards been. After a guided tour we were able to explore the highest temple where th ose brave enough to the town by ourselves. climb to it were rewarded with a view for mil es In the afternoon we lea rned more about one of around over the reserve. T he town ofTikal used to Guatemala's most pres ti gious productions- coffee. be the capital of the Maya-people. It had more than During a visit to one of the 40 coffee growing 30,000 inhabitants and nobody kn ows why these £1 milies in Antigua we had coffee tasting and people suddenly abandoned their city . The remnants Antigua coffee seemed to be the favourite. To of their lives is most impressive. N ot least the Great judge from the number of well-armed guards that Plaza surrounded by huge temples and the central were watching th e f www.imcos.org 51 IMCoS Matters The group of participants at tire IMCoS weekend in Rotterdam. They ao•e pictured outside tloe Kunsthal wloere tloe exhibition of the work of]olraowes Vingboons was on display. (Piroto by Davd Webb) A Weekend in Rotterdam At short notice Hans Kok and Mark Schuurman organised a weekend in Rotterdam for about 20 members ofiMCoS on 14th and 15th April. It turned out to coincide with the Rotterdam marathon but that just added to the enjoyment for some of us but ca used a few hea daches for those who were driving. The lea fl et described the weekend as "A cartographical Dutch treat" which is exactly what it turned out to be. We met on the Saturday at the Kunsthal to sec the manuscript watercolour maps and views by Johannes Vingboons (1616/17-1670). This provided a unique opportunity to see so many works by Vingboons in one place. He worked closely with the Blacu firm and many of his paintings were of Blacu maps with the names removed so that they didn't date. Three items on display were from the Vatican Library and may not be seen in public again . Others were from the Biblioteca Medicea Laurcnziana, Florence, but the majority were from the National Bert & Nel Verveen Archives in The Hague. Although the maps, four of Lisse, Tire Netherlands, of them on parchment and the remainder on enjoying the sun in paper, were of many different parts of the world, Rotterdam. (Photo it is thought that Vingboons never left his home by David Webb). town of Amsterdam. On the Sunday we w eaved through the marathon runners to reach the Maritime Muse um where the Curator, Sjoerd de Meer, gave us an excellent powerpoint presentation about the VOC (Dutch East India C ompany) and the charts made for them . In the 1590s the VOC was formed and needed charts to trav el to the East Indies for spi ces. T his ga ve ri se to the 21 Dutch charts on vellum and paper, dated between 1647 and 1670 (8 signed by Joan Blaeu), on display in the Muse um. This unique coll ecti on had been owned by Corpus C hristi C oll ege, O xford, for over 300 years but th ey w ere put up for sale in 2005 and bought by th e Maritime Muse um in Rotterdam . For the full story sec IMCoS] oumal Number 108, Spring 2007 pp.18-1 9. International symposia 2008 The next International Symposium (26th) w ill be held February 1 Qth_13th , 2008 111 W ellington, N ew Zeal and. To be held jointly w ith the Australian Map Circle, the N ew Zealand A WOIIdeifu/ o/d ship moored i11 the Map C ircle and the N ew Zeal and M ap Society. harbo11r at T he Prime Minister, Rt. H on. H elen Clark has Rotterdam. (Photo been invited to open the conference and spea kers by David Webb) will include Professor Robert Clancy, Dr Nick the coll ecti on will be featured in a display entitled Kanas, Kirsten Seaver and Dr W. Richardson. Atlantic C rossings. M embers will be able to view Several post symposium tours are planned. Keep other maps not included in this display. your eye on their website for updated informati on: The muse um has extensive grounds including www.underthcsoutherncross.org (See registrati on formal ga rdens, parkland and an arboretum, as w ell lea fl et in this issue). as a gift shop and cafe, and m embers will certainly 2009 27th Internati onal Symposium in Norway .. want time to enjoy some or all of these fa cilities . Lunch has been arranged, consisting of ham salad IMCoS Visit to Bath and jacket potato, lemon pie and cream , and tea or A visit has been arranged for Saturday, 22nd coffee; there will be a vegetarian option. September, 2007 to The Dallas Pratt Collection of The museum is best reached by car, and there HistOti cal Maps at the American Muse um in Britain is extensive parking space (see map on booking at Bath. As many members will know, Dallas Pratt, fom1). T hose arriving by train at Bath Spa station th e co-founder of the museum, gave it over 200 would need to take a taxi. maps and related items, the result of over 50 years' coll ecting, and it has been desctibed by R odney The sc hedule for the day is: : Shirley as 'the fin est private holding of early world 10.00 R efreshments in the cafe . maps and pre-1600 Ameri cana on the east side of 10.30 - 12.00 Lecture by Anne Armitage, Editor th e Atlantic'. M os t of the cartographical items in and Librarian at the Museum, visit to map exhibit th e collection are early printed maps, although and coll ecti on. th ere are some significant manusc ript maps. All are 12.30 Lunch, foll owed by free time to visit the otiginal and some are extremely rare. rest of the muse um and grounds. The muse um is housed in Claverton Manor, a 17.00 Muse um closes . Georgian mansion built in 1820 on the outskirts of T he cost of the visit is £32, which will include Bath on the A36. It contains a collection of deco entry to th e muse um, refreshments, lecture fee and rative arts in peri od rooms, illustrating the colonial lunch. A booking fom1 is enclosed, w hich should way of life between the 17th and 19th centuries. be returned with payment not later than There is a new American H eritage Exhibition, and 31st August 2007. at the time of our visit there will be a special exhi bition entitled "Dollar Princesses - American A w ide range of accommodation is available in H eiress to Peeress in late Victorian and Edwardi an and around Bath. A brochure can be obtained Britain." The D allas Pratt Coll ection is housed in from the Bath Tourist Office, tel: + 44 (0)906 a separate building, and a selecti on of maps from 711 200 (premium ra te number) . www.imcos.org 53 LONDON MAP FAIR STAND-HOLDERS Lower Ground Floor, Olympia 2 Exhibition Centre, London Friday 8th June 12.00-1900 Saturday 9th June 10.00-17.00 [email protected] Altea Gallery Angelika C.J. Priebe Ltd Fa. 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Box 27391 Meij sberg 12 Binningham B 17 8JP London E12 SWG NL-4861 BP Chaam Contact: Stephen Williams Tel +44 1494 562 266 The Netherlands E-mail [email protected] E-mail [email protected] Tel +31 161 492 008 WWW.lmCOS.Or www.mapforum.com Fax +31 161 492 008 E-mail [email protected] Intercol London Martayan Lan www.anti quariaatplantijn.planet.nl 43 Templars Crescent 70 East 55th Street, 6th Floor London N3 3QR New York, NY 10022 Shapero Gallery Contact: Yasha Beresiner USA 32 St George Street Tel +44 20 8349 2207 Tel +1 212 308 0018 London W1S 2EA F www.1rncosor 5 MAPPING MATTERS Surprise celebration for Gunter Schilder A number of speakers paid tribute to his long Report by Ha11s Kok career and the outstanding list of publications he As a long-time member of the IMCoS Advisory has produced during it. The on-going series Council, Prof dr. G.G.R.(GUnter to his friends) Momtllte/l.fa Cartographica Neerla11dica is almost Schilder, is well-known in IMCoS circles but his certainly his Opus Magn11m. impact on historical cartography goes much beyond GUnter Schilder arrived in the Netherlands that. This became clear at the surprise celebration of from Vienna/ Austria in the early 1970s. He his 65th birthday and retirement on 16th February returned temporatily to Vienna for his doctoral this year. It was indeed more a celebration than a thesis on the subject of the involvement of Dutch goodbye. For more than 25 years he has held a seafarers and cartographers in the discovery of special position with a C hair in the history of Australia, alias New Holland. Back in the cartography at the University ofUtrecht. Netherlands, he initially worked for the well Cleverly disguised as a regular "study-day" for known antiquarian mapseller Nico Israel until a the GIN - Working Group for the History of position at Utrecht University became available. A Cartography, including a fake agenda, a group of few years later, he was offered a Chair in the friends led by Paula van Gestel had managed to History of Cartography at the University, insti lure a large number of people, both professional tuted on the basis of his personal merit in the field. Gunter Schilder and amateur map friends, to the Navy Barracks, GUnter was undoubtedly a workaholic producing receives the pres ti- appropriately located next to the Netherlands an unending stream of research and publications, gious knighthood of the Order of the Scheepvaartmuseum An1sterdam. Among the 200 while organising his exceptional Explokart project Dutch Lion. On or so participants were over twenty colleagues as a sideline. This project allows a high turn-over behalf of Queen from abroad (Europe and North America), two of research, executed by volunteer researchers, Beatrix tire medal ambassadors to the Netherlands (A ustria and who are trained first at the University, complete was given to lrim by their field work in small groups, and prepare the Mrs. Yvotttte vatt Malta), representatives of the Utrecht University Rooy, President of and countless map ftiends of various denomina results for publication under academic guidance the Exewtive Board tions. Through smart planning, a little bit of luck and control. of the University of and the co-operation of all involved, the He was given numerous presents including a Utrecht. progranm1e remained a complete surprise to him. beautiful Liber Amicor11m, Mappae A 11tiquae, featuring just under 700 pages oftext, all beautiflilly illustrated. He was also presented with a nomination on behalf of Queen Beatrix as "Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw (Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion)" for his outstanding academic performance. The Petrus Plancius medal, which is rarely awarded, was presented to him on behalf of the KNAG, (Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap). For those worried about the future of the history of cartography in the Netherlands, it may serve as a consolation that Utrecht University provided a free five-year "stay-permit" to its Austrian professor, which w ill enable him to maintain his office at the University for that period at least, in order to continue the many projects awaiting completion. Volume VIII of his Momunenta will be published shortly and work on Volume IX has already started. However, the future of the history of cartog raphy in our country is already at risk. Utrecht University lacks the funds to continue the special Chair and is depending on private initiative to appoint another candidate. ACHC-Foundation 56 lMCoS Journal (Cartographiac Historicae Cathedra) has been the Btitish Libraty, Euston Road, London. Ptincipal formed and is eager to arrange for the necessary lecturers will be Dr Cathetine Delano-Srnith and funds. Private donations for this Foundation are Sarah Tyackc but Peter Barber, Map Libratian at the soughr. I would like to urge aficionados of early BL, Professor Roger Kain and dealer Laurence cartography to consider a donation which should Wonm will assist. The course is open to professionals be sent to:- Stichting Cartographiae Historicac such as librarians, curators, archivists and bibliogra Cathedra, c/o Mrs. Paula van Gestel- van hct phers but also to map and book coll ectors. An online Schip, H et Gewat 16, 5258 KL Berlicum/ The booking form IS available at: Netherlands. Tel.: +31 73 5037105 or +31 30 httQ:I /ics.sas.ac .uk /cm~vents/courscs/LRBS/in 2531379. E-mail: l:[email protected] and dex.hm1. Alternatively, call Dr Delano-Sm..ith (+-I-t Q_:_yangestel@geo. u u. nl. 208 83-16 5112) or Sarah Tyacke (+-I-t 207 -185 0316). Second Imago Mundi Prize Awarded Map Symposium in Bath The second Imago Mundi Prize has been awarded The American Museum in Britain and the to George Tolias for' ikolaos Sophianos's "Totius Rothcrmere American Institute are hosting a map Graeciae Descriptio": the resources, diffusion, and symposium from November 2nd_yd, 2007 in fi.mction of a sixteenth-century antiquarian map of Bath. It is to tie in with the Ametican Museum's Greece' which appeared in Imago ,\Iu11di 58, no.2 map collection which was formed by Dallas Pratt (2006): 150-182. Dr Tolias is Research Director and is housed in Clavcrton Manor, Bath. Papers of the Institute for Neohellenic Research, The will focus on cartographic representations and National Hellenic Research Foundation, in misrepresentations of America before the Athens. This prize is offered evety two years to the Declaration of l ndependence in 1776. article considered by the judges to be "a most accomplished work of historical and cartobiblio Prestigious Award for University College graphical scholarship." The winner receives $1000 Cork Scholar and qualifies for a J.B. H arley Travel Award to the UCC Geography Professor, William]. Smyth, is next biennial International Conference on the co-winner of the 2006 James S. Donnelly, Sr., Histo1y of Cartography (Berne gch _l}th July, 2007). Prize for Books on Histoty and Social Sciences, awarded by the American Conference for Irish Chicago Festival of Maps Studies for his book Map-Maki11g, La11dscapes a11d November this year sees the realisation of an Me111ory: A ,eeography 1f Colo11ia l a11d Early JVI.odem ambitious project - the Fes ti val of Maps - in lrelaud c. 1530-17 50. This book offers a new and Chicago. This is intended as a celebration of chall enging analysis of the conquest and settl ement humanity's greatest discoveries and the maps that of Irela nd by the N cw English (and Scottish) and record the world's boldest explorations. More the conseq uences of this often violent and deep than 25 cultural and scientific institutions in seated intrusion upon the cultures and landscapes C hi cago are taking part in this unique collaboration of pre-existing l rish societies. that features maps, globes, artefacts and artwork To enlarge on our understanding of this and tracks the evolving technology of wayfinding period in Ireland's history, William Smyth has fi-om ancient to modern times. Start date is 2nd included over I 00 original maps using often November. Full li st of events, locations and costs previously untapped sources and these maps point at www . fe~tivalofillaQs.org up the nuanced and regionally va tied character of the engagement between local peoples and History of Cartography Volume III incomcrs. The use of so many maps thus high Volume Ill , Carto,r;mphy i11 the Europea11 Re11aissa11cc li ghts many hidden l relands, often obscured in a is in the final stage before the physical printing and strictl y histo ri cal/narrative format. The overall binding. Project director is Matthew Edney who assessment reveals revolutionaty transformation has been able to take full advantage of a leave of in the nature of Irish societies and landscapes absence from his teaching and faculty scholar posts from the mid-sixteenth centmy onwards. The at the University of Southern Maine to oversee transformation resulted ti-om a violent collision the work. Publishers of this massive projected six between the peoples of l reland. volume work on the HistOLy of Cartography arc William Smyth is Professor of Geography at the University of Chicago Press. University College, Cork. Map course to be offered NB. 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