Another year has nearly passed, and we think everyone will be happy to say goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021. This year brought challenges to all of us in different ways, and we hope that despite all of the adversity you have found some silver linings. We have appreciated being able to spend more time with our kids during lockdown, to explore the peacefulness and bounty of nature, and to reconnect with loved ones through Zoom. Transitions are never easy, but we have tried to make the best of these circumstances and are thankful to remain healthy, happy, and connected. We wish the same for you and your families.
As we reflect on 2020, we also review our past auctions to better understand the market and our customers. Each year we share these insights into the collectible map market with our customers, and we hope these insights will help you better understand your collection and make purposeful decisions in the future. Sharing this information also enables our consignors to send us material that better matches our bidders’ interests. Overall we believe that opening up the hood of the car and showing you the engine, grease and all, is beneficial for all of us.
December 9-14: The Paris Virtual Map, Globe & Instrument Fair features over 30 map dealers from around the world. Their offerings include maps, prints, books, atlases, ephemera, globes and scientific instruments. The fair also offers several virtual lectures. The fair is free to attend. Click here to visit the fair.
December 17: The 28th Annual Series Oxford Seminars In Cartography is hosting a virtual lecture from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (UK time) via Zoom. Garrett Dash Nelson (Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library) will discuss "Election illusions: the 2020 US Presidential race and the perils of politics as a game of maps." Click here for more information.
January 5: The Boston, California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture via Zoom at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Matthew H. Edney (University of Southern Maine and University of Wisconsin–Madison) will take us through the Osher Map Library’s current exhibition, "Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677–1842." Click here to register for this free lecture.
January 9: The New York Map Society will have a virtual Zoom meeting at 2 pm, Eastern (New York) Time. Jordan Engel will talk about the "Decolonial Atlas Project." Engel is a cartographer and researcher at the Decolonial Atlas project, a virtual collaboration with Indigenous peoples from around the world which aims to bring together maps that challenge our relationships with the environment and the dominant culture. Registration is not required. Click here for more information.
January 15-16 (Paris) : The annual conference of the Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles has adopted the theme "Cartes et cartographie dans le monde anglophone aux 17e et 18e siècles." This symposium will be held at the Université Paris-Diderot and will feature Max Edelson, University of Virginia, as the keynote speaker. Click here for more information.
January 21: The Chicago Map Society will have a meeting at 7:00 PM. Michael Flaherty will speak about "Map Collecting Device Collection." Click here for more information.
January 21 : The Thirtieth Series of “Maps and Society” lectures in the history of cartography will be a virtual meeting (Zoom). Dr Radu Leca (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Heidelberg University, Germany) will discuss "Bathymetric Maps of Tokyo Bay: A Transnational History." Click here to register for this free event.
January 27 - February 10: Old World Auctions presents sale 181, which goes online January 27 and closes on February 10. There will be around 800 lots of fine maps, charts, atlases, decorative prints, illuminated manuscripts, books, and historical documents. With maps from every corner of the world, nearly half of the lots estimated below $250, and dozens of items listed at NO RESERVE, there are items to fit every interest and budget.
Many more map-related events are listed on John Docktor's "Cartography Calendar of Meetings and Events." Please check his list here: http://docktor.com/meeting.htm.
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