THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY Fall 2011 Newsletter Now Available Online www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC Back cover from the Nîmes-Avignon sheet (no. 40) of the Carte Michelin de la France, 1:200,000. Bibendum (the Michelin Man) The University of Chicago Press has is shown rolling a Michelin tire across the made all four books of Volumes One globe. The Michelin Company was founded and Two of The History of Cartog- in 1830 and became a leader in rubber raphy freely available online. These manufacturing. At the turn of the century, books cover cartography in the an- the company began publishing travel guides cient and classical world and medi- that promoted Michelin products and eval Europe (Vol. 1, ed. Harley and provided a wealth of travel information that Woodward, 1987); the traditional influenced the dramatic rise in popularity of Asian societies (Vols. 2.1 and Vol. the automobile. Michelin published its first map in 1904, and by 1909 the company 2.2, ed. Harley and Woodward, 1992 had launched an ambitious project to and 1994); and indigenous societies produce and sell road maps covering all of across the rest of the world (Vol. 2.3, France. By 1914, the company had begun to ed. Woodward and Lewis, 1998). produce maps for areas outside of France. The books brought sustained atten- Buyers were enthusiastically appreciative tion to societies and cultures other of Michelin’s innovative system of pleating, than those on which map historians which allowed the user to view the map like had generally focused. They demon- one would turn the pages of a book rather strated the validity of a socio-cultural than having to completely unfold each sheet. This image will appear in “Michelin,” by approach to map history and encour- Pascal Pannetier, in Volume Six. aged much new scholarship. While many thousands of copies of these Size of the original: 22 x 10.7 cm. groundbreaking books have been Published by the Michelin & Cie., ca. 1923. sold, they are still not readily avail- able to all map historians because of their cost. Online publication now makes this scholarship available to also the prefaces, indexes, illustra- the user to search individual files or a wider audience. tions, captions, and cumulative bib- across all files at once for specified liographies—into PDF files that can keywords. Access to this site is avail- The Press has converted all parts of be read online or downloaded. At the able at www.press.uchicago.edu/ each book—not only the chapters but same time, a search function allows books/HOC. THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY VOLUME ONE VOLUME TWO, BOOK ONE VOLUME TWO, BOOK TWO VOLUME TWO, BOOK THREE Cartography in Prehistoric, Cartography in the Cartography in the Traditional East Cartography in the Traditional Ancient, and Medieval Europe Traditional Islamic and and Southeast Asian Societies African, American, Arctic, and the Mediterranean South Asian Societies Australian, and Pacific Societies Edited by Edited by Edited by Edited by J.B. HARLEY J.B. HARLEY J.B. HARLEY DAVID WOODWARD and and and and DAVID WOODWARD DAVID WOODWARD DAVID WOODWARD G. MALCOLM LEWIS Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, 550 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706-1404 TEL (608) 263-3992 EMAIL [email protected] FAX (608) 263-0762 URL http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart 24th ICHC: Moscow to order). Along with Alexey Postnikov, eminence grise of Russian history of Volume Four editors Matthew Edney cartography (see page 6), and their and Mary Pedley, managing editor many enthusiastic colleagues, the con- Jude Leimer, and associate editors ference organizers arranged a smooth Sarah Tyacke (Volume Four) and Carla flow of papers, posters, exhibitions, Lois (Volume Five) all had the pleasure and refreshment. of attending the 24th International Conference on the History of Cartog- One of the themes of the conference raphy (ICHC) in Moscow last July. was “Innovation and Tradition in The venue was the splendid mansion Enlightenment Cartography,” which fit Dom Pashkov (Pashkov House), which into the ambit of Volume Four. Pedley was built in the 1780s overlooking the and Edney took the opportunity to Kremlin. Newly reopened in 2007 after reflect on the current status of the vol- extensive restoration, Dom Pashkov ume in their own presentations: Pedley hosts not only the manuscript and map on “Cartographers without Borders: rooms of the Russian State Library, in The Pan-European Development of which some ICHC map exhibitions Reconnaissance Mapping in the 18th were held, but also a wonderful eigh- Century” and Edney on “When Car- teenth-century ballroom that served as tography became ‘Modern’: The Histo- the main conference hall. The magnifi- riography of Cartography’s Enlighten- ICHC conference organizer Liudmila cent views toward the Kremlin’s gold ment Reformation.” Their papers were Zinchuk, playing the balalaika, a three- domes occasionally distracted even the well received and offered a glimpse stringed instrument of Russian origin with most diligent listeners from attending into what the encyclopedic nature of a triangular body. to the fine set of lectures prepared for the volume could produce. Edney also the week! Many participants were con- took the opportunity to announce to both Sturani and Pressenda are Vol- tributors to volumes of The History of the international community the on- ume Four contributors (Topographical Cartography, not least the conference line publication of Volumes One and Mapping and Property Mapping in organizer herself, Liudmila Zinchuk Two (see front cover). the Italian States, respectively). They (pictured at right with her balalaika, are firm conference friends; their first which was used to call the proceedings Zinchuk and her staff also made attendance, at the 2005 conference in sure that the History of Cartography Budapest, where they presented a post- Project had time and space for its er, initiated a most fruitful correspon- contributors to come together for an dence that has been sustained by meet- open house style meeting. About forty ings at subsequent ICHCs. Their Mos- contributors were present. Edney and cow poster addressed a research idea Pedley jointly briefed the attendees rooted in the cooperative approach on the progress of the three encyclo- and pan-European outlook of Volume pedic volumes, a recent Volume Five meeting in Paris (see pages 4–5), and the Project’s finan- cial health. The Volume Four editors also enjoyed the chance to meet more closely with our col- leagues from the Uni- versity of Turin: Paola Sereno, Maria Luisa Sturani, and Paola Pres- senda. Sereno contrib- uted to Volume Three (“Cartography in the Managing editor Jude Leimer and project director Matthew History of Cartography Project exhibit Duchy of Savoy dur- Edney with Jim Akerman (advisor and contributor to at the ICHC. ing the Renaissance”); Volumes Four and Six), in Red Square. 2 Four. Specifically, they proposed a “cross-institutional history of cartog- raphy” that explores the circulation of map-knowledge, mapping practices, and mapmakers throughout Enlight- enment Europe. The proposed inter- national research project would study the circulation of people, techniques, and ideas around the development of large-scale cartography during the period, particularly topographical and cadastral mapping. Edney and Pedley enjoyed a profitable meeting with this dynamic team to explore the possibili- ties of presenting some research results Catherine Delano-Smith, Agustin Hernando, and Paul Harvey, who have at the next ICHC in Helsinki in 2013 contributed articles in published and forthcoming volumes of The History and to share ideas about how to move of Cartography. Professor Harvey has attended all but four of the ICHC such a project forward. conferences since the biennial series began in London in the 1960s. To date, twenty-two conferences have been held. Volume Four editor Mary Pedley and associate editor Christopher Ries (contributor to Volume Four) with editors and Sarah Tyacke at a coffee break between sessions at associate editors Carla Lois, Matthew Edney, Sarah Tyacke, and the conference venue, Pashkov Dom. Mary Pedley. Editor Mary Pedley (center) pictured here with contributors Volume Four editors Mary Pedley and Matthew Edney at an informal Concepción Camarero Bullón (Volume Four) and Francesc meeting of volume contributors during the ICHC. Nadal (Volumes Four and Six). 3 Volume Four, Cartography in the European Enlightenment Steady progress was made in the last six months, and now over 71 percent of the volume’s entries have been written and submitted for editing. We look forward to receiving the remain- ing entries, most of which should be delivered by December, with submis- sion deadlines on only a small num- ber extending into 2012. We cannot stress enough to our contributors the importance of having all the entries in hand as soon as possible. It enables us to complete translations and move forward with the editing stage, and it allows authors time for revision and correction before publication. Volume Five, Cartography Detail from The Town of Boston in New England, by John Bonner, engraved by Francis Dewing (Boston: William Price, ca. 1725). Boston merchant William Price was an American in the Nineteenth Century map seller who regularly advertised a stock of maps and prints. He became a publisher A landmark in the planning and de- upon acquiring the plate of this 1722 map of Boston by Bonner, which he revised and sign of the nineteenth-century volume reissued until 1769. The map will appear in “Map Trade in British America,” by David Bosse, was the first face-to-face business in Volume Four. Size of the entire original: 43 × 58 cm; size of this detail: ca. 21.5 × 29.7 cm. meeting of project director Matthew Courtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago (Vault Ayer 133 .B717 1722).