SPRING 1997 ISSUE No. 68 THE MAP HOUSE OF LONDON (established 1907) Antiquarian Maps, Atlases, Prints & Globes 54 BEAUCHAMP PLACE KNIGHTSBRIDGE LONDON SW3 1 NY Telephone: 0171-589 4325 or 0171-584 8559 Fax: 0171-589 1041 Journal of the International Map Collectors' Society SPRING 1997 ISSUE No. 68 CONTENTS From the Editor's Desk 4 County Maps in Jansson's Atlas Minor 45 Bartholomew Sulivan in the Baltic 5 Old Atlases in Vilnius University 51 The Fordham Collection in the RGS 17 International News & Events 53 Map misleading German Tourists 27 Diary of Forthcoming Events 55 Matteo Pagano's Map of Britain 29 Regional Events 56 IMCoS at the Miami Map Fair 31 Informal Evening in London 57 IMCoS Occasional Paper No. 1 33 Notice of AGM 58 Publishing Imprints- the Wylds 37 Book Reviews 59 Cover map: Detail from 'Hungariae Descriptio' by Wolfgang Lazius, from Abraham Ortelius: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1570 (Courtesy of Laszlo Gr6f). 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Secretary: Dr Robert Clancy, 11 High Street, Newcastle, NSW 2300, Australia. Fax: 61-49-252-169 ©All signed articles are the copyright of the author, and must not be reproduced without the written consent of the author. Whilst every care is taken in compiling this journal the Society cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy of the information included herein. 3 From the Editor's Desk As we begin a new year, the seventeenth Transylvanian or Austrian, depending on for IMCoS, we have a new map on the the different authorities who have written front of our Journal - illustrating the about him. He was a man of many talents: location of our International Symposium cartographer, court surgeon, historian, in the autumn. It has been supplied by and professor of medicine at the Univer­ Laszlo Gr6f, who will be one of the sity of Vienna. In addition to the map of speakers in Budapest and is a renowned which a detail from the centre is on the scholar on maps of Hungary, especially front of the Journal, he also drew a ten­ those in the atlases of Abraham Ortelius. sheet map of Hungary in 1556, prepared He suggested the map by Wolfgang La­ at a time when political events in the zius (1514-65), 'Hungariae Descriptio', country permitted only limited survey which Ortelius included in the first and all work. subsequent editions of his Theatrum We look forward to learning more Orbis Terrarum. As Gr6f described the about maps of Hungary in September, map in The Map Collector (1979, no. 6, when I hope that a large number ofiMCoS pp 2-11), the arms of Hungary and 'Cum members will take the opportunity to visit Privilegio' appear in the top left comer the country, and see many maps that are while in the lower right hand comer the rarely available for study. circular strap work cartouche contains ex­ This issue of the Journal is larger than planatory text to help the reader with Hun­ usual, since I have received more articles garian pronunciation. from members, and I actually have two Lazius used as his model a manu­ stashed away for the Summer issue - script map by Lazar the Clerk (Eleazurus), something that has not happened before in secretary to Tam6s B ak6cz, Archbishop the years I have been editing it. This is a of Esztergom, whom Ortelius mentions very welcome change, and I am sure that amongst the best cartographers in the all our members will enjoy the increased 'Catalogus Auctorum'. Unfortunately information that it contains. However, when the map was published posthu­ there are still large areas of the world that mously in 1528 by Tanstetter in Vienna, have interesting maps, and we have little he made the fateful mistake of not recog­ up-to-date material to read about their his­ nising the correct orientation of Lazar's tory. We can only publish in English at manuscript. As a result he distorted the present, but do not be afraid to send in angles of rivers and also latitudes in the articles in translation from your own lan­ eastern part of the country. These errors guage; they can always be tidied up here. were copied by Lazius and all other carto­ There is a plea elsewhere for more articles graphers for the following two hundred from USA, since we have many members years. across the Atlantic, but research must be Wolfgang Lazius (Lazius Farkas in going on in other countries too, and mem­ Hungarian) could have been Hungarian, bers would like to hear about it. 4 Captain Bartholomew Sulivan and British Hydrography in the Baltic War of 1854/56 When war broke out in 1854 between by far the most powerful was sent to the Great Britain, France and Turkey on the Baltic. The fleet, which sailed in March one hand and Russia on the other, Europe 1854, totalled 23 ships manned by just had been at peace for 40 years, an un­ over 13,000men, and these included 12 of usually long period for the times, while the latest screw-propelled steam battle­ 'peace' at sea had reigned for even longer. ships (only two steam battleships went to For it was half a century since the battle the Black Sea). This was shortly joined by of Trafalgar had established Great Britain a French force which included 8 battle­ as the acknowledged maritime super­ ships of which only one was steam power, much as the United States is today. powered. Heavily outnumbered and out­ There was a fresh generation of naval gunned, and with no steam warships avail­ officers with little or no experience of sea able at all, the Russian fleet, hardly warfare, while new weapons and new surprisingly, took refuge behind its for­ types of ships, in particular steam-propelled, tress of Kronstadt, off St Petersburg, were waiting to be tried. Also the British where it stayed unmolested for the dura­ Admiralty, for the first time in its history, tion of the conflict. In the years leading up had a fully developed Hydrographic Service to the war the Russians had established a staffed with a trained corps of surveyors chain of strongly fortified anchorages ex­ serving in specialist ships. tending their power southwards into areas The problem for Britain and France was less restricted by winter ice, although the how best to prosecute war against Russia. last of these, Bomarsund in the Aaland Having no common land frontier they could islands was still only half completed. The only attack Russia by sea, on her two flanks history of the war thus comprised the suc­ -the Baltic and the Black Sea. Due to the cessive destruction of these fortresses extensive, and badly mismanaged involve­ leading towards an eventual threat to St ment of their army in the Crimea the atten­ Petersburg itself. tion of the British public became To Beaufort, the Admiralty' s fourth, concentrated on the Black Sea, an effect and most renowned Hydrographer, the sometimes called 'crimocentricity', to such coming of war was a supreme challenge an extent that it is still commonly known as to the service he had done so much to 'The Crimean War'. But both to the Allies create. He had been in office for 26 years and Russia the Baltic was potentially the and was now 80 years old and anxious to most critical area for on its shores lay Rus­ retire, but he was so respected that he was sia's centre of government, St Petersburg, persuaded to remain for at least the initial and it was in this theatre that the war could stages of the emergency. 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