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Maps, Globes, Atlases and Geographies Through the Year 1800 - the Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M.C University of Southern Maine USM Digital Commons Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications Cartographic Education 1988 Maps, Globes, Atlases and Geographies Through the Year 1800 - The Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M.C. Smith Cartographic Collection at the Smith Cartographic Center, University of Southern Maine James E. Mooney Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/oml_miscellaneous Part of the Canadian History Commons, European History Commons, Human Geography Commons, Latin American History Commons, Other History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Mooney, James E., "Maps, Globes, Atlases and Geographies Through the Year 1800 - The Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M.C. Smith Cartographic Collection at the Smith Cartographic Center, University of Southern Maine" (1988). Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications. 11. https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/oml_miscellaneous/11 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at USM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications by an authorized administrator of USM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 The Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M. C. Sm ith Cartographic Co llection TOM JONES PHOTO, BRUNSWICK, MAINE Eleanor Houston Smith (1910-1987) and Lawrence Meredith Clemson Smith (1902-1975) on 30 July 1968 at the ceremonies transferring their ownership of environmentally significant Popham Beach, Maine, to the state of Maine as a state park. ������������������������������ Maps, Globes, Atlases and Geographies Through The Year I8oo THE ELEANOR HOUSTON AND LAWRENCE M. C. SMITH CARTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION at the Sm ith Cartographic Center, University of So uth er n Maine Catalogued by ]AMES E. MoONEY with Foreword by KENNETH NEBENZAHL Introduction by PHILIP CHADWICK FosTER SMITH Published by the University of Southern Maine Library PORTLAND, MAINE • 1 9 88 @ 1988 BY THE RENFREW GROUP, P.O. Box 617, FREEPORT, MAINE 04032 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Mooney, James E. Maps, Globes, Atlases and Geographies Through The Year r8oo The Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M. C. Smith Cartographic Collection Bibliography: p. Includes index. I. Cartography - History II. The Renfrew Group III. Nebenzahl, Kenneth, foreword IV. Smith, Philip Chadwick Foster, introduction V. Title VI. Numbers ISBN o-93956r-o3-4 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 88-92267 THE UNIVERSITY oF SouTHERN MAINE LIBRARY WISHES TO THANK THE RENFREW GROUP FOR PERMISSION TO PUBLISH THIS SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS FOREWORD by Kenneth Nebenzahl xi PREFACE by ]ames E. Mooney xili INTRODUCTI ON by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith XV CATAL OGUE 3 SELECTED REFERENCES 137 INDEX Vll ILLUSTRATIONS FRONTISPIECE Eleanor Houston Smith and Lawrence Meredith Clemson Smith on 30 July I968 Between pages 32-33 Between pages 64-65 Between pages 96-97 PLATE PLATE PLATE I I5I3 Ptolemy. GEOGRAPHIA I7 I6o2 Ortelius. THEATRO 33 I700 Wells. NEW MAP 2 I520 Solinus. JOANNIS I8 I603 Bayer. URANOMETRIA 34 I702 Mather. MAGNALIA 3 I537 Bordone. ISOLARIO I8 I603 Blaeu. CELESTIAL GLOBE 35 I7I4 Aa. AMERICA 4 I542 Munster. TYPUS I9 I62o Boulenger. SPHERE 36 I7I6 Homann. SPHJERARUM 5 I545 Munster. NOVAE INSULAE 20 I636 Jansson. AMERICA 37 I72I Senex. NEW MAP 6 I546 Pincius. DE VITIS 2I I650 Jansson. TABULA 38 I729 Moll. NEW ENGLAND 7 I548 Ptolemy. LA GEOGRAFIA 22 I650 Visscher. NOVI BELGII 39 I733 Popple. EMPIRE 8 I556 Ramusio. DELLA NAVIGATION! 23 I650 Walton. AMERICA 40 I730 Homann. PLANIGLOBII 9 I565 Bertelli. AMERICA 24 I656 Sanson. CANADA 4I I74I Chassereau. CARTHAGENA IO I566 Zaltieri. IL DISEGNO 25 I662 Blaeu. ATLAS 42 I763 Barnsley. NEW-ENGLAND II I570 Ortelius. AMERICAE 26 r667 Goos. ATLAS 43 I764 Southack. CASCO I2 I57I Arias. SACRAE 27 I674 Sanson. MAPPE-MONDE 44 1768 Blair. NORTH AMERICA I3 I578 }ode. SPECULUM 28 I675 Wit. ATLAS 45 I769 Robert deVaugondy. ATLAS I4 I587 Ortelius. TYPUS 29 I675 Wit. TERRA NOVA 46 I776 Des Barres. FALMOUTH I5 I592 Girault. GLOBE 30 I677 DuVal. CANADA 47 I778 Page. BOSTON I6 I595 Mercator. AMERICA 3I I692 Sanson. AMERIQUE 48 I795 Carleton. MASSACHUSETTS 32 I695 Keulen. PASKAERT IX FOREWORD CENTLY I was recalling people who have made strong, lecting team with both parties of equal strength is indeed rare. Rpositive impressions on me since I became a dealer in rare I visited Germantown a number of times over the years and books thirty years ago. Among the firstto come to mind experienced the generous hospitality of the Smiths, epitomized in were Mr. and Mrs. L. M. C. Smith, whom I met early in my ca­ my recollection by the candelabra-lit dinners presented and served reer. Eleanor and Sam Smith had a combination of grace, charm, as in a by-gone era. Mr. and Mrs. Smith continued to develop warmth, and boundless intellectual curiosity that made knowing their wonderful collection of maps, atlases, globes, and books on them a wonderful experience. As collectors they personified a geographical subjects, pursuing this interest assiduously for years. truism in my profession: the personal associations that a rare­ Their wide-ranging intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm never book dealer is privileged to have are often as attractive as the waned with the passage of time. They became increasingly more pleasure of dealing with the books, manuscripts, maps, globes, knowledgeable in the history of cartography and related subjects. and prints themselves. One of the ways great collectors can be identified is by their When Sam Smith telephoned concerning items in one of the reference libraries of sources for their fields of collecting. The early issues of The Compass for Map Collectors, he also invited Smiths' collection of reference books not only grew, but showed me to stop by when next in Philadelphia. Soon after, I had my appropriate signs of wear. first visit to 3460 School House Lane. This great nineteenth­ The University of Southern Maine is very fortunate to have century rambling frame house, once the home of Mayor Henry been selected as the location of the Smith collection, with its of Philadelphia, was full of books which the Smiths had uaccu­ many rarities from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centu­ mulated" over the years, before they began to ucollect" books ries, many now improcurable. I know that Mrs. Smith derived more formally and purposefully. great pleasure from seeing the collection remain together at the When we looked at books together, I had never experienced University of which she was very fond, where it will always be such enthusiasm and direct expression of curiosity and interest available for scholars of every sort to consult and find inspiration -equally strong with both collectors. This last point is re­ as well as information. markable for its unusualness. There are many gentlemen collec­ KENNETH NEBENZAHL tors, and quite a few lady collectors, but a husband-wife col- Xl PREFACE HE six hundred entries in this catalogue include nearly maps, and the like. The next area of the entry has the cartographi­ Ttwenty thousand maps and geographies collected by the cal content of the item and it is designed to help the reader to Smiths with enthusiasm and good taste over a period of learn more about the piece by being referred to such standard two decades. These examples of three centuries of mapmaking sources as those listed among Selected References. It is here also through the year 18oo have great value not only to the students that the place of the piece in cartographic history and other infor­ and scholars of geography but to the interested general public mation is included. which has in its number more lovers of maps, true cartophiles, In the Introduction to his study of English county atlases, R. A. than often is thought. The catalogue is intended for use by both Skelton wrote that "the compiler of such a work as this depends groups, and the illustrations give a sample of the beauty and to a very large extent on the labours of his predecessors in the utility of such maps, globes, atlases, and geographies. field, and he must be ready to confess, like John Speed, 'I have The arrangement of the material in this catalogue is chrono­ put my sickle into other men's corne'." The reader will note that logical and, within each year, alphabetical by name of mapmaker the truth of this confession applies especially here, for the alterna­ or geographer. Each entry is under the year of publication with­ tive to calling the reader's attention to the work of such prede­ out brackets if the date is printed on the item or within brackets cessors as Koeman and Phillips and Sabin and others would be when the year of publication is known but not printed. The date to add immensely to the heft of this catalogue by slavishly copy­ is followed by a question mark when authorities disagree or the ing their findings here. date is a guess, and the date followed by the character § when the The period covered by this catalogue is only three hundred of item is a reproduction or facsimile. The entry begins with the the five hundred years since Columbus sparked European interest name of the mapmaker or geographer with dates of birth and in the new world of the Americas by his discoveries. The two death where known from Tooley, Mansell, Shipton-Mooney, and centuries not included here are represented within the collection other sources.
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