Upcoming Events of Interest to Map Collectors

A brief rundown of upcoming events related to antique map collecting from various parts of the globe that have come to my attention:

Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Historical lecture. The Susquehanna Museum of Havre de Grace will present the Ellsworth B. Shank Historical Lecture at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 711 Pennington Ave., Havre de Grace. The topic will be “Early Cartography and Navigation on the Chesapeake” and will be presented by John Macek of NOAA. Call 410-939-5780 for more information.

Via: The Baltimore Sun

Through March 27, 2007
GALLERY C, 3532 Wade Ave., Raleigh, North Carolina: “Rare Antique Maps and Prints,” European and American cartography of the Southeastern United States. Phone: 888-278-3973 for more information. 

Via: Relish Now!

Friday, March 30 – Saturday March 31st, 2007
Exploring and Being Explored: Africa in the Nineteenth Century is a two-day international conference at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Jointly organized by the National Maritime Museum and The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, the focus is on medicine, mapping and exploration in Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, highlighting the common ground between fields that were once thought to be independent of one another.

Via: MapHist

March 10, 2007 – 1p.m.
The Library of Virginia will host the 2007 Alan M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography. The lecture will take place in the Library of Virginia Lecture Hall.

Dr. John Hébert, chief of the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress, and Dr. Helen C. Rountree, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Old Dominion University and the author and editor of numerous works on the Native Americans of the East Coast, will deliver the fourth annual Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography. Dr. Hébert will look at John Smith’s map of Virginia as an active promotional device for acquiring territory. Dr. Rountree will discuss John Smith as a mapmaker who mapped what he saw, though selectively.

Prior to the lecture, attendees will have a unique opportunity to learn more about the Library’s map collection from staff members and view many of the Library’s rare maps. This will be followed by a boxed lunch. The lecture is free of charge; however, there is a small fee for the tour and boxed lunch, and advance reservations are required.

This lecture will also introduce the new Fry-Jefferson Map Society, an affinity group affiliated with the Semper Virginia Society. Members of the Fry-Jefferson Map Society will help develop, enhance and promote the cartographic collections of the Library of Virginia.

The lecture is free of charge, but reservations are required. The special tours and boxed lunch require advance registration by calling the Library of Virginia Foundation office at 804-692-3900. The Foundation office may also be contacted for information regarding the Fry-Jefferson Map Society.

Monday, March 05, 2007—Saturday, March 17, 2007
Those attending the Voorhees Lecture are also invited to enjoy special programming that includes a temporary exhibition of 23 maps and atlases, “Virginia Described: John Smith’s Map and Its Derivatives”, on view in the lobby at the Library of Virginia from March 5th through March 17th.

Via: MapHist

Maps and Society – The Warburg Institute – Sixteenth Series. Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research) and Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library). Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute, University of London,Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB at 5.00 pm. Admission is free. Meetings are followed by refreshments. All are most welcome.

Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Catherine Delano Smith).

March 29, 2007 –  Dr Michael Winstanley and William Shannon (Department of History, University of Lancaster) “Lord Burghley and Elizabethan Maps of Lancashire”.

April 26, 2007 -  Hugh Prince (formerly, Department of Geography, University College London) “Surveyor or Plagiarist? The Parks on John Warburton’s Map of Hertfordshire (c. 1724)”.

May 17, 2007 - Jill Shefrin (Trinity College, University of Toronto) “Nursery Instruction: Cartographical Novelties for Georgian and Victorian Children”.

Via: MapHist