Collection of Essays on the History of Map Collecting just Published

The 2016 series of the Nebenzahl Lectures, Newberry Library in Chicago, was on the topic of the history of map collecting. The press reviews liked the resultant essays but did not see how they held together as a coherent volume. The press declined the volume. Fortunately, we were able to place the essays with the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries. Most of the essays were made available as preprints during 2022; I just today (30 Jan 2023) got notice of their formal appearance in print (or planned in print). As is so common in these covid/post-covid days, the journal is running behind, so that the issue — vol. 17, nos. 2–3 — is officially dated 2021.

The essays should be cited — according to CMoS — as 2021, as that’s the date on the cover.

The four essays are:

Edney, Matthew H. “Of Maps, Libraries, and Lectures: The Nebenzahl Lectures, the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center, and the Study of Map History” (Pages: 95–147)

Pegg, Richard A. “The Collecting and Study of Pre-Modern East Asian Maps in Europe and the United States” (148–79)

Schulten, Susan. “How Did Old Maps Become Valuable? On Map Collecting and the History of Cartography in the United States” (Pages: 180–228)

Akerman, James R. “Cartographic Ephemera and American Travel Mapping” (Pages: 229–67)