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Welcome to our website. We will periodically put various announcements on this page, which may deal with new lists, books, maps, fairs, or other things of general interest. Our most recent list may be seen via its link on the menu to the left. Those same items will also show with any general search of our inventory.
We have taken the time to provide a great deal of information for the collector. Please note the pages constructed pertaining to general web resources, care of old maps, and use of book search engines on the web. An annotated list of reference books for the map collector is maintained and periodically updated (see navigation bar under bibliography). Although not present on the navigation bar, we also maintain a Pathfinder for the History of Cartography.
Joel intermittently teaches a brief introductory course in the history of cartography for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. The course is titled "The Roles of Old Maps: History, Art, Cartography and the Building of Nations", and consists of six 1.5 hour segments (four lectures and two sessions in special collections). This course was last taught in the spring of 2010. Joel will also be teaching two half day segments in the University of Virginia's intensive five-day Rare Book School course, Introduction to Printed Maps, which runs from June 14-18, 2010. The two segments will be "Introduction to the Cataloging and Cartobibliography of Early Printed Maps" and "The Antiquarian Map Trade: Perspectives for Librarians, Archivists and Collectors."
Thank you for visiting! We hope you will do so again, many times.
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