The Map Thief (36 page)

Mapmaking in the Middle Ages
:
Bagrow,
History of Cartography,
41–50, 61–73; Bricker and Tooley,
Landmarks of Mapmaking,
23–31; Brown,
Story of Maps,
81–107; Goss,
Mapmaker’s Art,
11, 35, 42; Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
65–128; Wilford,
Mapmakers,
40–65.

Prester John
:
Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
45–53; Wilford,
Mapmakers,
48–53.

Portuguese discoveries
:
Stefoff,
Vasco da Gama,
13–79; Brown,
Story of Maps,
108–112; Goss,
Mapmaker’s Art,
60; Wilford,
Mapmakers,
67–70; Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
223–229.

Printing press
:
Brown,
Story of Maps,
150–152; Gohm,
Maps and Prints,
12–16.

early editions of Ptolemy
:
Brown,
Story of Maps,
153–156; Shirley,
Mapping of the World,
630; Tooley,
Maps and Map-Makers,
6–7.

altering Ptolemy’s maps
:
Fite and Freeman,
Book of Old Maps,
1; Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
203–205.

Henricus Martellus
:
Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
229–232.

discovery of Waldseemüller map
:
Ibid., 12–17; Schwartz,
Putting “America” on the Map,
143–167.

purchase of Waldseemüller map
:
Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
17–19; Schwartz,
Putting “America” on the Map,
243–255; John R. Herbert, “The map that named America: library acquires 1507 Waldseemüller map of the world,” Library of Congress, Information Bulletin, September 2003, http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0309/maps.html; “Library of Congress and NIST build a case for Waldseemüller map display,” Library of Congress, Information Bulletin, January–February 2008, http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/08012/map.html.

Christopher Columbus
:
Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
236–270; Wilford,
Mapmakers,
73–85.

Amerigo Vespucci
:
Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
302–323; Schwartz,
Putting “America” on the Map,
109–123; Wilford,
Mapmakers,
83–84.

“Everyone of both sexes goes about naked”
:
Schwartz,
Putting “America” on the Map,
296.

“The women
 . . . not as revolting as one might think”:
Ibid., 297.

“I have deemed it best
 . . . insatiable lust”:
Ibid., 310.

Martin Waldseemüller map of the world
:
Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
327–370; Schwartz,
Putting “America” on the Map,
27–49, 123–126.

“Within the memory of man”
:
Crane,
Mercator,
36–37.

Low Countries
:
Ibid., 19–21; Taylor,
World of Gerard Mercator,
39–47; Binding,
Imagined Corners,
7–18; Ashley Baynton-Williams, interview with the author.

Gerard Mercator
:
Crane,
Mercator;
Taylor,
World of Gerard Mercator;
Binding,
Imagined Corners,
94–102; Brown,
Story of Maps,
158–160; Wilford,
Mapmakers,
87–92.

Abraham Ortelius
:
Binding,
Imagined Corners;
Brown,
Story of Maps,
160–165; Tooley,
Maps and Map-Makers,
29–30; Virga,
Cartographia,
1–3; Wilford,
Mapmakers,
103.

Gerard de Jode
:
Binding,
Imagined Corners,
131; Brown,
Story of Maps,
166; Burden,
Mapping of North America,
104; Crane,
Mercator,
246, 268; Tooley,
Maps and Map-Makers,
30–31.

published at least thirty
:
Tooley,
Maps and Map-Makers,
30.

Cornelius de Jode
:
Burden,
Mapping of North America,
(81–82, Pl. 81), 104–106.

dozen or so copies of de Jode
:
Burden,
Mapping of North America,
104.

Mercator’s
Atlas
, Hondius, and Jansson
:
Brown,
Story of Maps,
164–168; Tooley,
Maps and Map-Makers,
31–35.

maps in Vermeer
:
Krieger and Cobb,
Mapping Boston,
88; Jonathan Janson, “Vermeer’s Maps,” Essential Vermeer, http://www.essentialvermeer.com/maps/delft/maps_of_delft.html.

rival family of Willem Blaeu
:
Brown,
Story of Maps,
168–173; Tooley,
Maps and Map-Makers,
33–34.

C
HAPTER
4

R.V. Tooley
:
Tooley,
Introduction to the History of Maps and Mapmaking,
7–8; Wallis and Tyacke,
My Head Is a Map;
Valerie G. Scott, “R. V. Tooley: the ‘Grand Old
Man of Maps,’”
Mercator’s World
4, no. 6 (November 1999): 12; Tony Campbell and Valerie Scott, interviews with the author.

“To hold an ancient atlas”
:
Scott,
Mercator’s World.

“A collection of maps”
:
Smiley interview, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, August 2011; Campbell interview.

“No dealer is really successful”
:
Tooley,
Introduction to the History of Maps and Mapmaking,
8.

John Smith map of New England (1635)
:
John Smith, “New England . . . 1614,” London, 1635, Norman B. Leventhal Collection, Boston Harbor Hotel; Alex Krieger, interview with the author; Alex Krieger, e-mail to the author, December 2, 2013; Burden,
Mapping of North America,
(187), 226–228. (Through Krieger, Leventhal and his family declined requests for an interview.)

John Smith map of New England (1624)
:
John Smith, “New England . . . 1614,” London, 1624, Norman B. Leventhal Collection, Boston Harbor Hotel; Krieger interview; Krieger e-mail; Krieger and Cobb, Mapping Boston, 82–83; Map 4, “New England—The Most Remarquable Parts Thus Named by the High and Mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Great Britaine,”
Mapping Boston
website, http://www.mappingboston.com/html/map4-0.htm.

Wood map of New England (1634)
:
The copy in Leventhal’s collection is a reissue from 1639. Krieger and Cobb,
Mapping Boston,
87; Map 7, “The South Part of New-England, as It Is Planted This Yeare, 1639,” Mapping Boston, http://www.mappingboston.org/html/map7-0.htm#full.

Blaeu map of New England (1635)
:
Willem Janz Blaeu, “Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova,” Amsterdam, 1635, Norman B. Leventhal Collection, Boston Harbor Hotel.

Jansson map of New England (1651)
:
Jan Jansson, “Belgii Novi, Anglia Novae . . . ,” Amsterdam, 1651, Norman B. Leventhal Collection, Boston Harbor Hotel; Krieger and Cobb,
Mapping Boston,
89; Map 8, “Belgii Novi, Angliae Novae, et Partis Virginiae Novissima Delineatio,” Mapping Boston, http://www.mappingboston.org/html/map8-0.htm.

Speed map of New England (1676)
:
John Speed, “A Map of New England and New York,” London, 1676, Norman B. Leventhal Collection, Boston Harbor Hotel; Schwartz and Ehrenberg,
Mapping of America,
113; “John Speed: A Map of New England and New York,” Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc., https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/33489?view=print.

mapmaking began in France
:
Brown,
Story of Maps,
241–255; Crone,
Maps and Their Makers,
85–91; Tooley,
Maps and Map-Makers,
38–45; Wilford,
Mapmakers,
111–151.

“waggoners”
:
Brown,
Story of Maps,
145–146.

“So completely did the Dutch”
:
E. Forbes Smiley III, “The Origins of the English Map Trade, 1670–1710,”
AB Bookman’s Weekly,
June 9, 1986, 2685–2694.

John Seller
 . . . John Thornton . . . Mount and Page:
Smiley, “Origins”; Rodney Shirley, “The maritime atlases of Seller, Thornton, Mount & Page,”
The Map Collector,
no. 73 (December 1995); Ashley Baynton-Williams, “The Charting of New England,” Map Forum, http://www.mapforum.com/02/neweng.htm; Ashley Baynton-Williams, “John Seller, Sr.: the ‘Atlas Maritimus,’”
Map Forum
6 (Summer 2005); New York Public Library,
“In Thy
Map Securely Saile”: Maps, Charts, Atlases, and Globes from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection,
1998; Baynton-Williams and Worms,
British Map Engravers,
469–470, 595–598, 662–663; Baynton-Williams interview; Bricker and Tooley,
Landmarks of Mapmaking,
134; Cumming,
British Maps of Colonial America,
39–40; Krieger and Cobb,
Mapping Boston,
94–95.

“must have been a godsend”
:
Cumming,
British Maps of Colonial America,
39.

Seller map of New England (c. 1675)
:
“John Seller. A Mapp / of New England” and “Morden & Berry. A Map of / New ENGLAND . . . [1676],” E. Forbes Smiley III, www.efsmaps.com (site discontinued; accessed through Internet Archive, www.archive.org); Smiley, “Origins”; Burden,
Mapping of North America,
(473, Pl. 473), 102–103; Goss,
Mapping of North America,
96–97; Krieger and Cobb,
Mapping Boston,
22, 24, 92; “John Seller,” wall text, Norman B. Leventhal Collection, Boston Harbor Hotel.

“first true map of New England”
:
Krieger and Cobb,
Mapping Boston,
24.

Smiley got a bead
 . . . most historians didn’t:
Smiley interview.

Mount and Page chart of Boston Harbor (1708)
:
Smiley interview; “Anonymous, 1708,” Mercator Society,
English Mapping of America, 1675–1715.

Lawrence Slaughter
:
Bill Dentzer, “Lawrence Havron Slaughter, computer system expert, dies,” June 4, 1998, unknown publication found in Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection (LHS) archives, New York Public Library; Nancy Kandoian, “The Lawrence H. Slaughter Map Collection: the cataloguer’s viewpoint,”
Meridian,
no. 13 (1998); Hudson interview; “LHS List,” New York Public Library Map Division, October 27, 2006, LHS archives.

October 12, 1985
:
Alice Hudson, memorandum to Mercator Society Committee, October 21, 1985, NYPL Map Division Archives; Scott Slater, interview with the author.

Smiley’s wedding
:
Slater interview; photographs shown by Scott Slater.

Mercator Society
:
“New York Public Library forms Mercator Society,”
SLA Geography and Map Division
Bulletin,
no. 144 (June 1986); New York Public Library,
Annual Report,
1986;
Mercator Society Newsletter,
June 1986, New York Public Library, Map Division Archives; “Mercator Society Income Report,” February 22, 1995, NYPL Map Division Archives; Hudson memo to Mercator Society Committee, October 21, 1985, NYPL Map Division Archives.

English Mapping of America
:
Mercator Society,
English Mapping of America;
“Libraries Celebrate Edmond Halley,”
Mapline,
no. 44, December 1986; “Letter from Alice Hudson,”
Mercator Society News,
January 1987, NYPL Map Division Archives; Alice Hudson, memorandum to Dick Newman et al., September 24, 1986, NYPL Map Division Archives.

Smiley donated $4,000
:
NYPL president Vartan Gregorian, letter to E. Forbes Smiley III, November 17, 1986, NYPL Map Division Archives; Alice Hudson, memorandum to Faye Simkin, October 26, 1986, NYPL Map Division Archives.

“apparently moved mountains”
:
“Woolridge/Thornton, c. 1702–1707,” Mercator Society,
English Mapping of America.

“earliest navigable chart of Boston Harbor”
:
“Anonymous, 1708,” Mercator Society,
English Mapping of America.

“considers the maintenance and enrichment”
:
Mercator Society,
English Mapping of America
.

new “gallery”
:
“E. Forbes Smiley III,” advertisement,
The Map Collector
(Spring 1987); author site visit, April 4, 2013.

Matthew Clark
:
Krieger and Cobb,
Mapping Boston,
53–54.