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For People Who Love Early Maps 93049 IMCOS covers 2011.qxd:Layout 1 14/2/11 08:42 Page 5 THE MAP HOUSE OF LONDON (established 1907) Antiquarian Maps, Atlases, Prints & Globes 54 BEAUCHAMP PLACE KNIGHTSBRIDGE LONDON SW3 1NY Telephone: 020 7589 4325 or 020 7584 8559 Fax: 020 7589 1041 Email: [email protected] www.themaphouse.com pp.01-06 Front pages_ pp. 01-4 Front 18/08/2011 10:49 Page 1 Journal of the International Map Collectors’ Society Founded 1980 Autumn 2011 Issue No.126 Features 7 John Thornton’s Map of 1669: A lost part of Canadian history now found by Lisa Friesen Little Plates, Long Story: Willem Holtrop’s pocket atlas 15 by Geoffrey L. King 21 Who Were John Cooke? Finally getting it right? by Kit Batten The House That Maps Built: A very special family home in Valletta 41 by Albert Ganado Regular items A Letter From the IMCoS Chairman 3 by Hans Kok From the Editor’s Desk 5 by Valerie Newby 34 IMCoS Matters 48 You Write to Us 51 Book Reviews 55 Mapping Matters Copy and other material for our next issue (Winter 2011) should be Advertising Manager: Jenny Harvey, 27 Landford Road, submitted by 1st October 2011. Editorial items should be sent to: Putney, London SW15 1AQ United Kingdom The Editor: Valerie Newby, Prices Cottage, 57 Quainton Road, Tel.+44 (0)20 8789 7358 email: [email protected] North Marston, Buckingham MK18 3PR United Kingdom All signed articles are the copyright of the author and must not be reproduced Tel.+44 (0)1296 670001 email: [email protected] without the written consent of the author. Whilst every care is taken in Designer: Jo French compiling this journal, the Society cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy of the information included herein. Illustration: Samuel Thornton’s map of Hudsons Bay, see p.11 www.imcos.org 1 pp.01-06 Front pages_ pp. 01-4 Front 18/08/2011 10:49 Page 2 Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg. Civitates orbis terrarum [Cologne, 1616-1623] 6 volumes bound in 3 ESTIMATE £70,000-100,000 Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History AUCTION IN LONDON 15 NOVEMBER 2011 I ENQUIRIES +44 (0)20 7293 5291 SOTHEBYS.COM 2 IMCoS Journal pp.01-06 Front pages_ pp. 01-4 Front 18/08/2011 10:49 Page 3 A Letter From the Chairman LIST OF OFFICERS With the June weekend safely behind President: Sarah Tyacke us we are now taking stock of the positive Advisory Council and negative things that have taken place. Rodney Shirley (Past President) To my regret, the number of participants at Roger Baskes (Past President) the annual dinner and thus also for the W.A.R. Richardson (Adelaide) Malcolm Young lecture and Montserrat Galera (Barcelona) IMCoS/Helen Wallis award presentation Bob Karrow (Chicago) Peter Barber (London) was down compared to last year. The fact Catherine Delano-Smith (London) that the London Map Fair had to be moved Hélène Richard (Paris) to the second weekend in June - which Günter Schilder (Utrecht) made it coincide with the Whitsun Elri Liebenberg (Pretoria) weekend - may have had an impact but we Executive Committee and Appointed Officers do not really know. IMCoS followed the Chairman: Hans Kok LMF dates in order to maintain the Poelwaai 15, 2162 HA Lisse combined attraction of the Map Fair and The Netherlands the IMCoS weekend. The lecture by Tel/Fax: +31 25 2415227 Stanislas De Peuter from Belgium on the Atlas Sinensis was certainly worth email: [email protected] Vice Chairman: Valerie Newby attending and Albert Ganado from Malta was a worthy winner of this year’s International Representative: IMCoS/ Helen Wallis Award. Accompanying Dr Ganado at the dinner were his To be appointed two daughters and his son in law plus Joseph Schiro, Secretary of the Malta Map General Secretary: Stephen Williams Society, who all helped to lure him to London. The convivial atmosphere of the 135 Selsey Road, Edgbaston evening was as warm as ever! Caroline and Peter Batchelor returned from Birmingham B17 8JP, UK California just in time to help organise the dinner. They had been in America to Tel: +44 (0)121 429 3813 see the inauguration of Caroline’s collection of maps of Africa to Stanford email: [email protected] University. See article and pictures in IMCoS Matters. Treasurer: Jeremy Edwards The London Map fair was a pleasure to visit with sales to private collectors up 26 Rooksmead Road, Sunbury on Thames on last year as proudly reported by their organising committee. The Executive Middx TW16 6PD, UK Tel: +44 (0)1932 787390 Committee of IMCoS is pursuing its normal activities. Work on the replacement email: [email protected] website is underway but requires a lot of effort to ensure that we will meet the Dealer Liaison: Yasha Beresiner planned date for its implementation. The scanning of all issues of IMCoS Journal is e-mail: [email protected] now complete and – apart from the last three years (in order to protect our current National Representatives Co-ordinator: members) - and is ready to go online when the new website is ready. Robert Clancy During the 2011 Annual General Meeting, the appointment of two – already PO Box 891, Newcastle 2300, active - members of the Executive Committee was agreed: Clare Terrell to join as New South Wales, Australia UK National Representative on the Committee and Sonali Siriwardena (from Sri Tel: +61 (0)249 96277 Lanka, living in London) as member–at–large, meaning that when regular committee email: [email protected] members need advice on computer matters we can turn to her expertise. 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Fax: +44 (0)1364 631 042 email: [email protected] Hans Kok www.imcos.org 3 pp.01-06 Front pages_ pp. 01-4 Front 18/08/2011 10:49 Page 4 pp. 01-4 Front 23/2/10 14:18 Page 2 !"#$%&&'()(&*+,( -./%&&'()(&**,& 0.1 23 4 5613 4 4 IMCoS Journal pp.01-06 Front pages_ pp. 01-4 Front 24/08/2011 07:35 Page 5 From the Editor’s Desk by Valerie Newby When I read about the expedition to written his first article for us; he attempts to unravel Spitzbergen which was attacked by a Polar bear it a mystery of some similar sets of miniature maps reminded me of a talk we had at the International which were engraved in the second half of the 18th Symposium in Norway by Jeremy Pool about the century. We are just hoping that the portrait of the mapping of that archipelago. We also published his publisher Willem Holtrop won’t frighten you too talk in a later edition of the Journal and a glance at much. He certainly looks to have been a very severe the map from Purchas His Pilgrimes from 1623 gentleman! mentions ‘The manner of killing beares’ so those We also have an article by Kit Batten, a regular early expeditions must have had problems too. No contributor to the Journal. He undertook to sort out helicopters in those days to take the whalers and the identities of several John Cooke’s who were explorers to hospital if they were attacked! I had listed in the original Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers thought that I would like to travel there as it must and in the revised edition. I remember that Jo be so wild and unspoilt. Have I changed my mind? French and I, whilst doing the research for the I am not telling…… revision, spent many hours trying to solve the We are bringing you a true mix of articles in this problem so we are very grateful to Kit for issue starting with the background story to the map attempting to unravel careers which had become by John Thornton which was bought by Daniel intermingled over the years.