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This map of America, unlike many that would be published over the following centuries, features an attached California (and a rather lumpy South America). Notes in Latin describe explorations and features of the area.
This beautiful geographical work, published in several volumes, is a slightly later edition of Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania’s most famous work, L’universale fabrica del mondo, ovvero cosmografia.
Book: L’universale fabrica del mondo, overo cosmografia / dell’ ecc. Gio. Lorenzo d’Anania. Venetia : presso il Muschio, 1582.
This beautiful geographical work, published in several volumes, is a slightly later edition of Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania’s most famous work, L’universale fabrica del mondo, ovvero cosmografia. The maps are typical of the time in which they were produced, with plenty of lovely accents like the little sea monster pictured above, near Africa.
We’ll feature several of the maps from this book over the next couple of weeks.
Book: L’universale fabrica del mondo, overo cosmografia / dell’ ecc. Gio. Lorenzo d’Anania. Venetia : presso il Muschio, 1582.
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Rome, Fragments from a Map on Marble
In these fragments from the marble map of Rome, one can discern an outer wall enclosing a double row of columns. On the long sides are two semi-circular exedrae and a central square niche, all fronted by another row of columns. Along the southern wall is another semi-circular apse opposite a broad flight of steps from the Clivus Suburanus. The rectangular feature in the center may been a fountain or possibly the shrine to Concordia (Aedes Concordiae) built by Livia and presented to Augustus.
There is a project to identify, scan and reconstruct the map as far as is possible http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/index.html
I didn’t know about this Stanford project. Neat!
Source: penelope.uchicago.edu
As promised, here are some more of the spectacular maps from the collaborative Atlas project.
Atlas: Atlas Imagined: A Collaborative Project. The Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, 2015.
This wonderful collaborative project arrived this week through our own Emily Martin. All of the artists listed in the third photo contributed their own map to to the project, creating an atlas of the mind. The variety of folding techniques was one of the most fascinating aspects to me; the illustrations were another! Painted, pencilled, printed, drawn, no two are alike. I will post another set of them later this week.
Atlas: Atlas Imagined: A Collaborative Project. The Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, 2015.
One of Chef Louis’ interests relating to culinary history was the history of travel, so there are several travel guides in his collection. Here is a traveler’s guide to visiting the Netherlands, complete with maps of routes between Paris, London, and Amsterdam.
Book: The Travellers guide through the United Netherlands. Amsterdam : E. Maaskamp, 1816.
Istanbul (Not Constantinople).... wait. Yes, Constantinople!
The map of Asia Minor was long enough that I was not able to get a good photo of it. Snippets it is!
Book: A hand-book for travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople ... including a description of Malta ... London, J. Murray; [etc., etc.] 1845.
Maps of Rome as the inside covers of a book on Roman Gastronomy! These are fairly common as instructional elements in travel guides (and sometimes in works of fiction), but like the illustrations inside the pamphlet, are almost entirely decorative in this case.
Book: Brigante Colonna Angelini, Gustavo. Roman gastronomy / text by Gustavo Brigante Colonna and Orso Carboni. [Roma] : Ente provinciale per il turismo di Roma, [195-?]. Gift of Louis Szathmary.
We have a fairly extensive oenology collection within our Chef Louis Szathmary Collection in Special Collections. Here is one example in the form of some German vineyard maps! Most of the maps in this book are new, but the author featured a Delisle map at the beginning of the book.
Expect to see a few more Szathmary map posts this month.
Book: Johnson, Hugh. The atlas of German wines and traveller's guide to the vineyards / by Hugh Johnson. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1986.
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Weekly squint. Here is our globe at the entrance to our Reading Room. It’s a lamp! From the borders it seems to date from the 1970s.
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New acquisition unboxing: John Fifield, Olson Graduate Research Assistant. We’ll miss you, Jillian!
This is what happens when we find giant boxes… -Kelly
Welcome, John!
Hello to our southerly neighbors!
This little pamphlet was sitting on a cart near me and merited further investigation. Although not initially very eye-catching, its message is intriguing. Like many Midwestern pamphlet maps at the time, it encouraged people to immigrate to the area. Such maps can also be found in other languages (Swedish, German, etc), indicating a desire to bring in foreign immigrants as well as those already in the States.
Map: Missouri State Board of Immigration. The agricultural, manufacturing, commercial and geographical center of the Mississippi Valley, Missouri : the imperial state : its wealth and resources, 1880. St. Louis: Published by the State Board of Immigration, A. McKinley [et al., 1880]
The Carte du Missouri in Perrin du Lac’s Voyage dans les deux Louisianes focuses on locating villages and on indicating rivers that intersect the Missouri river. The map ends where the Missouri runs into the Mississippi.
The mammoth skeleton really completes this one.
Book: Perrin du Lac, M. (François Marie). Voyage dans les deux Louisianes, et chez les nations sauvages du Missouri, par les États-Unis, l'Ohio et les provinces qui le bordent, en 1801, 1802 et 1803; avec un aperçu des moeurs, des usages, du caractère et des coutumes religieuses et civiles des peuples de ces diverses contrées. Par M. Perrin du Lac. Paris, Capelle et Renand; [etc., etc.] 1805.
I got carried away with the photography on this one, especially considering that (yet again) most of these are more diagram than map, but hey! They’re really neat.
Kircher’s work is elaborately and beautifully illustrated, and well worth a more thorough look. You can see find more info and images here and here.
Book: Kircher, Athanasius. Athanasii Kircheri ... Mundus subterraneus, in XII libros digestus; quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturæ in eo distributio, verbo pantámorphou Protei regnum, universæ denique naturæ majestas & divitiæ summa rerum varietate exponuntur. Abditorum effectuum causæ acri indagine inquisitæ demonstrantur; cognitæ per artis & naturæ conjugium ad humanæ vitæ necessarium usum vario experimentorum apparatu, necnon novo modo, & ratione applicantur. Amstelodami, apud J. Janssonium & E. Weyerstraten, 1665.
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This is a gorgeous illustrated map by Tony Sarg of the Century of Progress World’s Fair, held in Chicago in 1933 and 1934. It’s from the Publications series of our Century of Progress collection, but you can look at it in greater detail on David Rumsay’s website as well.
Excellent map!
The final three images above are taken from one map (you can see the full map here), which was laid in to Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44. The book details John C. Frémont’s first and second expeditions. It was published in 1845, the year Frémont went on his third expedition.
Frémont went on to briefly serve as Military Governor of California, make a fortune in the California Gold Rush, win a Senate appointment, run for president, and serve as Commander of the Department of the West in the Civil War (appointed by President Lincoln).
Book: Frémont, John Charles. Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44. Washington: Gales and Seaton, printers, 1845.