An Accurate Map of the State and Province of New-Hampshire in New England
Yale/M
Missing
1784
Brion de la Tour
Carte des Etats-Unis d’Amérique, et du Cours du Mississipi
Yale/M
Missing
1784
William Faden and Samuel Holland
A Topographical Map of the Province of New Hampshire
Yale/M
Missing
1785
William Faden
United States of North America with the British Territories and Those of Spain
Yale/M
Missing
1787
Thomas Jefferson
Map of the Country between Albemarle Sound and Lake Erie, Comprehending the Whole of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pensylvania
Boston/B
Missing
1792
Andrew Ellicott
Plan of the City of Washington
Boston/B
Missing
1792
Andrew Ellicott
Plan of Washington in the Territory of Columbia
Yale/M
Missing
1792
Reading Howell
A Map of the State of Pennsylvania
Yale/M
Recovered
1793
Andrew Ellicott
Territory of Columbia
Yale/M
Missing
1795
Dennis Griffith
Map of the State of Maryland
Yale/M
Missing
1798
Osgood Carleton and John Norman
An Accurate Map of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Yale/M
Missing
1798
Nathaniel Holland (Norman Charts)
Chart of the Coast of New England from South Shoal to Cape Sable
Boston/M
Missing
1798
William Norman
Chart of the Coast of Maine
Boston/M
Missing
1798 ca.
Carleton Osgood (Norman Chart)
A New General Chart of the West Indies
Boston/M
Recovered
1798
Paul Pinkham (Norman Chart)
Chart of Nantucket Shoals
Boston/M
Missing
1798
Anthony Smith (Norman Chart)
A New and Accurate Chart of the Bay of Chesapeak
Boston/M
Missing
1801
(unknown)
Map of Yedo
Yale/M
Missing
1802
Osgood Carleton and J. Loring
Map of Massachusetts Proper
Yale/M
Missing
1807
James Madison
A Map of Virginia, Formed from Actual Surveys
New York/M
Recovered
1814
Aaron Arrowsmith
A Map Exhibiting All the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America
Yale/M
Missing
1820
Moses Greenleaf
A Map of the State of Maine, from the Latest and Best Authorities
New York/M
Missing
1825
(unknown)
Martinique [West Indies] [306]
Yale/M
Missing
1825
(unknown)
West Indies Martinque St Pierre Roadstead [305]
Yale/M
Missing
1840
Maruya Zenbei
Map of Kyoto
Yale/M
Missing
1841
(unknown)
Dai Nihon Dochu Hayabiki Saiken no Dzu
Yale/M
Missing
1847
Albert Alden
Alden’s Pictorial Map of the United States
Yale/M
Missing
1851
(unknown)
Map of Sakai
Yale/M
Missing
1853
(unknown)
Map of the World in the Ortelius Manner
Yale/M
Missing
1854
Juan de Cordova
J. de Cordova’s Map of the State of Texas, Compiled from the Record of the General Land Office
New York/M
Missing
1854
J.H. Colton
United States of America, the British Provinces, Mexico, the West Indies, and Central America
Yale/M
Missing
1854
Suido Nakajima
Nihon Yochi Zenzu
Yale/M
Missing
1858
H.F. Walling
Map of the Counties of Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket, Mass.
Yale/M
Missing
1860
Yagi Isaburo
Nagasaki Ko
Yale/M
Missing
1889
Saito Torakichi
Picture of Nikko
Yale/M
Missing
1891
(unknown)
Map of Niigate in 1891
Yale/M
Missing
Acknowledgments
I’VE ALWAYS HAD a tremendous respect and admiration for librarians—who helped introduce me to the joys of reading at an early age and later helped me track down countless sources and facts as a reporter. But working on this project has convinced me they are some of the nicest and most generous people on the planet. I deeply appreciate the unstinting knowledge and honesty they shared with me in the interest of the historical record. In particular, I have to thank Ron Grim, E.C. Schroeder, Margit Kaye, Abe Parrish, Alice Hudson, Nancy Kandoian, David Cobb, Tony Campbell, and Peter Barber.
I also owe a debt to the journalists who plowed this field before me, in particular Kim Martineau and Bill Finnegan, whose stories I relied upon to track down sources and information. I am also thankful for the assistance of the law enforcement officials who spent their time untangling Smiley’s web of deceit, especially Steve Kelleher and Marty Buonfiglio. I also have to acknowledge the map collectors and dealers who helped me understand their world, including Harry Newman, Bill Reese, Graham Arader, Barry Ruderman, Paul Cohen, and Douglas Marshall; as well as crime experts Anthony Amore, Travis McDade, and Bob Goldman, who explained the ins and outs of art, book, and map theft to me.
Thanks as well to Smiley’s friends, who helped me write a more human story than I would otherwise have been able to do, including Paul Statt, Hilary Chaplain, Bob von Elgg, Fred Melamed, Scott Haas, David Mallett, Jayne Lello, and especially Scott Slater, who spent hours with me sharing stories, letters, paintings, and videos to make sure that I got the portrait of his best friend right.
I can’t say enough about the support provided to me by the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, as well as the support it provides to great journalism in general. Specifically I have to thank Florence Graves, Claire Pavlik Purgus, Melissa Ludtke, Sophie Elsner, Neena Pathak, Molly Taft, and Elizabeth Eckley; as well as their team of indefatigable research assistants, including Gilda Di Carli, Megan Kerrigan, Adelina Simpson, Aliya Bean, Simon Diamond Cramer, and especially Tate Herbert, who helped corral many of the wonderful maps that illustrate this volume. Thanks as well to Sophie Luke-Hall and Maura Fields for their own crucial research assistance and to Jelmer Noordeman and Koen Harmsma, who provided such excellent original maps to accompany the narrative. I am thankful to those who helped me first conceive of this story, including Janice O’Leary, who first suggested I try to interview Smiley, and Alexandra Hall, who encouraged me from the outset to pursue this book.
I am also grateful for the support of Grub Street Writer’s Launch Lab, including Katrin Schulman, Lynne Griffin, and all my wonderful fellow authors, including Peggy Shriner, Tasneem Zehra, and Elizabeth Earley, who all read a draft of the manuscript and provided much helpful advice. Thanks to my mother, Ann Blanding, who lent her own eagle eye to catching typos in the penultimate draft, and to my father, Bob Blanding, who inspired my love of maps to begin with. A special shout-out to Rebecca Uchill, who also read the manuscript and offered generous amounts of advice and support in a plethora of multimedia styles.
Finally, this book would not have been possible without the unflagging support of my agent, the incomparable Elisabeth Weed, who immediately saw the potential in this strange tale and helped me shape it into a compelling narrative. And last but not least, I have to thank the wonderful team at Gotham who helped to make this a reality, including my talented editor, Megan Newman, who rightly encouraged me to let the story tell itself; her always-positive assistant, Gigi Campo; and all of the people behind the scenes who helped make this book a reality. It is because of them that you now hold this book in your hands, and for that I am endlessly grateful.
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