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Subject: Special Talk with Scandinavia Map Collector Bill       Ginsberg
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:45:02 -0500
From: Paul Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: maps-l


A Special Event at The Scandinavia House...

Please join us on Thursday evening, March 1st at The Scandinavia House
for Charting the Journey from Collector to Author/Publisher: A Talk by
William B. Ginsberg.  Over the past two decades, it has been our
pleasure to work with Mr. Ginsberg as he assembled one of the most
important collections of early maps of Scandinavia.  In the process he
has become one of the subject’s finest scholars.  We congratulate him on
the success of his book, Printed Maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic,
1428-1601, and are proud to sponsor this event.


Charting the Journey from Collector to Author/Publisher
A Talk by William B. Ginsberg
Thursday, March 1, 6:30 pm. FREE
The Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue between 37th & 38th Street
For more information see: http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/

William B. Ginsberg will discuss his newly-published book, Printed Maps
of Scandinavia and the Arctic, 1428-1601, the first scholarly
cartobibliography of the far north. From the first printed map of
Scandinavia, a 1482 woodcut from Ulm, Germany, to a 1601 Dutch
copper-plate engraving, this richly illustrated book shows how
cartographers systematically collected and incorporated information from
reports of explorers and travelers to develop increasingly detailed
maps. “The maps present even the untutored eye with a cornucopia of
information about the rise and fall of nations, exploration and the
wonders of geology,” wrote Roberta Smith in a New York Times review of
an exhibition of Mr. Ginsberg’s collection at Scandinavia House in 2002.
Mr. Ginsberg, who has collected maps for more than 20 years, will
discuss the origins of his interest in maps of Norway and Scandinavia
and his in-depth research into the subject. He will frame his discussion
around images of some of the most beautiful, rare, and interesting maps
by the greatest names in the history of cartography. Sponsored by
Richard B. Arkway, Inc. and Cohen & Taliaferro LLC.

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Richard B. Arkway, Inc. / Cohen & Taliaferro LLC
Fine Antique Maps, Atlases, Globes & Voyage Books
59 East 54th Street, suite #62
New York, NY 10022
(212) 751-8135 - (800) 453-0045
http://www.arkway.com