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Thanks to those who have replied on- and off-list. I’m following up on the JCB lead and others, and will post any further information. John Lancaster On Oct 16, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Douglas Sims wrote: > This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the > whole list) > o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > > Dear Mr. Lancaster, > > You might try contacting The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University in > Providence. They received a fairly large percentage of Beans's Italian maps > as a gift. I quote from Raleigh Ashlin Skelton's Maps, a Historical Survey > of Their Study and Collecting. Illustrated Edition (Chicago, 1972), at p. > 55, in note 45: "The John Carter Brown Library acquired thoe maps from the > Beans collection that fell within their collecting policy. See "the George > H. Beans Gift of Maps and Geographical Treatises," Brown University, John > Carter Brown Library, Report, 1957, pp. 14-33, and subsequent reports > describing additions: 1958, pp. 46-59; 1959, pp. 33-39; 1960, pp. 31-33; and > 1960-65, p. 45. The remainder of the collection was sold to antiquarian book > dealers and dispersed." > > So it would appear that it was only the JCB which obtained a sizable portion > of the Italian maps in Beans's collection, although I have heard, though > cannot give you documentation, that the University of Philadelphia also > acquired some from him, apparently also as a gift. Thus the JCB is perhaps > the most likely source of further information on Beans's Italian maps. > Perhaps they will know, too, about the two catalogs mentioned by Frances > Woodward in her reply, which quite astounded me. I didn't know that these > catalogs existed. > > Best > > > Doug > > Douglas W. Sims > 211 Brighton 15 St., apt. 3-G > Brooklyn, New York 11235 > > 718-891-6684 > > [email protected] > > > > --- On Fri, 10/15/10, John Lancaster <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: John Lancaster <[email protected]> > Subject: [MapHist] Query re George H. Beans > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, October 15, 2010, 2:50 PM > > This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the > whole list) > o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > > I am working on a copy of Bartolommeo dalli Sonetti's Isolario (ca. 1485) > which was once in the possession of George H. Beans (and previously in the > Austrian National Library, apparently sold as a duplicate sometime after > 1920). It is now in the collection of the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith > College (Northampton, Massachusetts), acquired from H. P. Kraus, who acquired > it from Beans. > > There is a pencil note on the front free endpaper "GHB 295" - I imagine this > is Beans's note, and that it refers to some sort of catalogue of his > collection. > > I would be grateful for any information that could lead me to further > information about such a catalogue. > > P.S. This is the copy about which Michael Buehler recently posted an inquiry > on my behalf - having thus learned of the existence of this list, I now post > for myself. > > -- > John Lancaster ([email protected]) > [Curator of Special Collections, Emeritus] > [Amherst College Library] > P.O. Box 775 > Williamsburg, Mass. 01096-0775 > 413-537-1041 (cell) > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography > hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of > the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of > Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for > the views of the author. > List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > > Maphist mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist > > _______________________________________________ > MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography > hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of > the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of > Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for > the views of the author. > List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > > Maphist mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
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