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Authors: Michael Blanding

The Map Thief (35 page)

Notes

AUTHOR NOTE:
For cartobibliographies, including Burden, McCorkle, and Shirley, the number of the map is included (in parenthesis) along with the page numbers on which it appears.

 

“[As] Geography without History”
:
John Smith,
The Generall Historie of the Bermvdas, now called the Summer Iles,
1624, in Smith,
Travels and Works of Captain John Smith
, 625.

I
NTRODUCTION

“closest confidant & adviser”
:
E. Forbes Smiley III, e-mail to the author, October 24, 2012.

“On Exactitude in Science”
:
Borges,
Collected Fictions,
325.

C
HAPTER
1

Smiley in the Beinecke and his arrest
:
Marty Buonfiglio, Ellen Cordes, Ralph Mannarino, E.C. Schroeder, E. Forbes Smiley III, interviews with the author; Marty Buonfiglio, walking tour with the author, July 1, 2013; “Z702 is for book thief: the role of technical services in collection security,” panel discussion with Ellen Cordes, American Library Association Rare Books and Manuscripts Section preconference, June 22, 2011; Yale University Police Department, incident report, complaint #0205001914, June 8, 2005; Martin Buonfiglio, affidavit, arrest warrant, July 10, 2005; Beinecke Library security video, June 8, 2005.

Beinecke Library
:
“About the building,” Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/about-building.

world map by Henricus Martellus
:
“Henricus Martellus Germanus,” Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Author?author=Martellus%2C+Henricus; Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
229–232.

Captain John Smith
:
Hoobler and Hoobler,
Captain John Smith;
Price,
Love and Hate in Jamestown;
Smith, Arber, and Bradley,
Travels and Works of Captain John Smith.

“Could I have but the means”
:
Smith, Arber, and Bradley,
Travels and Works of Captain John Smith,
193–194.

“If he have nothing but his hands”
:
Ibid., 213.

fifteen-year-old crown prince
:
According to Smith, Arber, and Bradley (
Travels and Works of Captain John Smith,
232),
A Description of New England
was printed on June 3, 1616. England’s King Charles I was born on November 19, 1600.

previously known as Cape Cod
:
Schwartz and Ehrenberg,
Mapping of America,
85.

unprecedented act of virtual colonization
:
Harley,
Maps and the Columbian Encounter,
134–136.

His map of New England
:
Smith, Arber, and Bradley,
Travels and Works of Captain John Smith,
699; Burden,
Mapping of North America,
(187) 226–228; Krieger and Cobb,
Mapping Boston,
82–83; Dexter,
Maps of Early Massachusetts,
58–59; Baker,
American Beginnings,
290–293, 297–298; Fite and Freeman,
Book of Old Maps,
(34) 124–127; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, 
Mapping of America,
96–99.

Gerard de Jode world map
:
Shirley,
Mapping of the World,
(124, Pl. 105) 146–147; Richard B. Arkway, Inc.,
Catalog 54: World Maps, c. 1200–1700,
18; Buonfiglio, affidavit, arrest warrant;
Antique Map Price Record,
2001, 2008.

other maps
:
Buonfiglio, affidavit, arrest warrant.

C
HAPTER
2

B. Altman and Co.
:
E. Forbes Smiley III, interview with the author; Angela Taylor, “For delegates and others, a guide to New York’s emporiums,”
The New York Times,
August 11, 1980; Jennifer Merin, “After 124 years in business, the grand dame of fifth avenue, B. Altman & Co., is closing its doors,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 26, 1989; David D’Arcy, “Going, going, gone: the liquidation and closing of B. Altman in New York comes as a warning to other retail giants: no one is safe,”
Los Angeles Times,
January 31, 1990.

“Most maps are bad”
:
Smiley interview.

Technical lessons
:
Smiley interview; Gohm,
Maps and Prints,
2–62; Potter,
Country Life Book of Antique Maps,
9–27; Lister,
How
to Identify Old Maps and Globes,
51–70; Moreland and Bannister,
Antique Maps,
11–18; Reinhartz,
Art of the Map,
1–40; Ashley Baynton-Williams, lecture, London Map Fair, June 9, 2013.

E. Forbes Smiley III
(grandfather) :
“Rev. Smiley, 78, of Bedford dies,”
New Hampshire Union Leader
(Manchester), October 23, 1973; “87 degrees confirmed,”
The Harvard Crimson,
March 1, 1917; United Church of Christ,
Year Book,
(New York: The Church, 1975;
General Catalogue of Andover Theological Seminary
(Boston: The Fort Hill Press, 1927); Spurway,
Book of Remembrance;
Edward Forbes Smiley, “English historians’ and theologians’ opinions of Luther in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries” (master’s thesis, Columbia University, 1917).

Edward Forbes Smiley II
(father):
Edward Forbes Smiley II gravestone, Bedford Cemetery; “Sixty-third annual commencement,” University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, June 6, 1946; E. Forbes Smiley II, “A two crystal feedback aioustical interferometer for the measurement of ultrasonic velocities and attenuation in rarefied gases” (master’s thesis, Brown University, June 1949).

Adele
(Moreau) Smiley (mother):
“Adele M. Smiley obituary,”
New Hampshire Union Leader
(Manchester), February 18, 2009.

Marilyn and Marion Smiley
:
Peoplesmart.com.

Edward Forbes Smiley III and Susan Smiley
:
Peoplesmart.com; Yale University Police Department, incident report, complaint #0205001914, June 8, 2005.

Bedford, New Hampshire, history
:
Bedford Historical Society,
History of Bedford, New Hampshire, 1737–1971;
Bedford, New Hampshire, League of Women Voters,
Know Your Town;
Bedford Presbyterian Church,
The Book of Remembrance: 250 Years of Commitment to Christ and Community;
Bedford Bulletin,
Bedford, New Hampshire: A Glimpse of the Past;
Betty Lessard, “A history of Bedford, New Hampshire 1735–1979,” Merchants Savings Bank, 1979; Bedford Historical Society, “Self-guided walking tour Bedford Center”; exhibits at Bedford Historical Society; loose materials in the New Hampshire Room of the Bedford Public Library.

Smiley family in Bedford
:
Paul Statt and Hilary Chaplain, interviews with the author; deed, James G. Driscoll and Marguerite D. Driscoll to Edward F. Smiley and Adele M. Smiley, vol. 1557, 314, December 6, 1958, NHDeeds.com; Bedford Historical Society, photos from garden club tour, undated.

Derryfield School
:
“About Derryfield,” Derryfield School, http://www.derryfield.org/about-DS/our-school/history; Initium, Derryfield School yearbooks, 1971, 1972, accessed through Classmates.com.

Smiley at Derryfield
:
Statt and Chaplain interviews.

Smiley at Hampshire
:
Scott Slater, Scott Haas, Dick Cantwell, and Fred Melamed, interviews with the author; Statt and Chaplain interviews;
Hampshire College Frogbook,
1976, 1977–1978, 1978.

“the dollhouse”
:
Slater, Statt, Chaplain, Haas, and Melamed interviews; Stephen Oravecz, “House of houses,”
Hampshire Gazette,
October 15, 1977; Stephen Mease, “The little pleasures of Victorian living,”
Hampshire Gazette,
September 30, 1983.

Small Hope
:
Slater and Statt interviews.

New York Public Library Map Division
:
New York Public Library,
Annual Report,
1984, 1986; Henry Hope Reed,
The New York Public Library: Its Architecture and Decoration;
Alice Hudson, “A brief history of the New York Public Library Map Division,”
Meridian,
Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association, no. 13 (1988); Alice C. Hudson, “The cartographic treasures in the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden foundations: part one: the map division,”
The Map Collector,
no. 43 (Summer 1988): 2–7; Alice Hudson, “Report of what’s happening at the Map Division, N.Y.P.L., 1989–1990,”
SLA
Geography and Map Division,
Bulletin,
no. 161 (September 1990); Glenn Collins, “Restoring vivid palette of library’s map chamber,”
The New York Times,
December 12, 2005.

Alice Hudson
:
Alice Hudson, interview with the author; “Alice C. Hudson resume,”
SLA Geography and Map Division Bulletin,
no. 167 (March 1992); Dawn Youngblood, “Alice Hudson: New York Public Library’s treasure among maps,”
Journal of Map and Geography Libraries
6, no. 2 (2010): 151–173; Andrew Friedman, “City lore; the kingdom of the map,”
The New York Times,
March 11, 2001.

“water map”
:
D.D. Guttenplan, “Invisible metropolis bustles beneath city,”
Newsday
(New York), October 1, 1989; Natalie Keith, “Maps to the heart of the city; at the New York Public Library,”
Real Estate Weekly,
September 13, 2000.

Rare Book Division
:
Maud C. Cole, “The cartographic treasures in the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden foundations: part two: the rare books division and manuscripts division,”
The Map Collector,
no. 43 (Summer 1988): 8–10; Davidson and McTeague,
Treasures of the New York Public Library,
168–189; Williams and Coakley,
Guide to the Research Collections of the New York Public Library.

Norman Leventhal
:
Krieger and Cobb,
Mapping Boston,
viii; Jerry Ackerman, “The Leventhal touch,”
The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine,
October 27, 2006; Michael Blanding, “The old and the restless: for some, life begins at 80,”
Boston Magazine,
April 2002.

B. Altman and Co. struggled
:
Daniel F. Cuff, “Altman’s head resigns,”
The New York Times,
December 17, 1982; “FAO Schwarz to open shops at B. Altman,”
Daily News Record
(Harrisonburg, Va.), August 25, 1986; Rita Reif, “Auctions,”
The New York Times,
September 5, 1986; Christine Dugas, “B. Altman’s new luster fades,”
Newsday
(New York), July 9, 1989; Isadore Barmash, “No bidder to rescue B. Altman,”
The New York Times,
November 18, 1989; Jennifer Merin, “A Christmas bonus: B. Altman’s going-out-of-business bargains in New York,”
Chicago Tribune,
December 10, 1989.

North American Maps & Autographs
:
Forbes Smiley,
A Celebrated Collection of Aeronautica,
New York: North American Maps & Autographs, 1984; advertisement,
Map Collector
(March 1985).

Leventhal’s call finally came
:
Smiley interview.

C
HAPTER
3

maps from all of ancient civilization
:
Barber,
Map Book,
6–27; Brown,
Story of Maps,
6–8, 12–57; Bagrow,
History of Cartography,
19–34; Bricker and Tooley,
Landmarks of Mapmaking,
9–23; Clark,
100 Maps,
18–34; Crone,
Maps and Their Makers,
1–3; Goss,
Mapmaker’s Art,
18–26; Thrower,
Maps and Civilization,
1–26; Tooley,
Maps and Map-Makers,
1–5; Virga,
Cartographia,
9–26; Wilford,
Mapmakers,
6–13.

Alexandria
 . . . Eratosthenes:
Bricker and Tooley,
Landmarks of Mapmaking,
13; Brown,
Story of Maps,
46–50; Wilford,
Mapmakers,
18–28.

Ptolemy
:
Bagrow,
History of Cartography,
34–37; Bricker and Tooley,
Landmarks of Mapmaking,
15–22; Brown,
Story of Maps,
58–80; Clark,
100 Maps,
38–40; Goss,
Mapmaker’s Art,
24; Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
131–144; Thrower,
Maps and Civilization,
23–35; Virga,
Cartographia,
21–24; Wilford,
Mapmakers,
29–39.

Ptolemy’s influence on the Renaissance
:
Bagrow,
History of Cartography,
77–86; Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
153–165.

“raises us above the limits”
:
Lester,
Fourth Part of the World,
162.

scholars meeting at church conferences
:
Ibid., 166–171.

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