The Map Thief

by Michael Blanding

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  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.

  INTRODUCTION

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

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

  CHAPTER 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 Universit
y 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.

  CHAPTER 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.

  CHAPTER 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.

  Mapmaking in the Middle Ages: Bagrow, History of Cartography, 41–50, 61–73; Bricker and Tooley, Landmarks of Mapmaking, 23–31; Brown, Story of Maps, 81–107; Goss, Mapmaker’s Art, 11, 35, 42; Lester, Fourth Part of the World, 65–128; Wilford, Mapmakers, 40–65.

  Prester John: Lester, Fourth Part of the World, 45–53; Wilford, Mapmakers, 48–53.

  Portuguese discoveries: Stefoff, Vasco da Gama, 13–79; Brown, Story of Maps, 108–112; Goss, Mapmaker’s Art, 60; Wilford, Mapmakers, 67–70; Lester, Fourth Part of the World, 223–229.