The Map Thief (41 page)

John White
:
John White, “Americae Pars, Nunc Virginia dicta,” in Theodor de Bry,
Collections, Segunda Editio,
vols. 6–7, part 1, 1591, Boston Public Library, G.281.51 vol. 6; Burden,
Mapping of North America,
(76), 96–98; Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc., “John White / Theodore De Bry: Americae pars, nunc Virginia dicta . . . ,” https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/36230ct/;
Cohen & Taliaferro Inc. and Richard B. Arkway Inc.,
Catalog 62: Fine Antique Maps
(26).

Richard Hakluyt
:
Gerald Roe Crone, “Richard Hakluyt,”
Encyclopaedia Brittanica
, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/252157/Richard-Hakluyt; Hoobler and Hoobler,
Captain John Smith
, 67–73.

Samuel Purchas
:
”Samuel Purchas,”
Encylopaedia Brittanica
, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/483810/Samuel-Purchas.

Smiley requested the BPL’s copy
:
Samuel Purchas,
Hakluyus Postumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes,
1625, Boston Public Library, G.300.22; Ron Grim, Memorandum, “Subject: Inventory of missing items from publications used by Smiley at the Boston Public Library,” January 3, 2006, LMC archives.

the island of California
:
Burden,
Mapping of North America,
(214) 265–66, 507–08; Tooley,
Mapping of America
, 110–134; Fite and Freeman,
Book of Old Maps,
128–131; “The island of California: a persistent fallacy,”
Mercator’s World,
1996; W. Michael Mathes, “Traditional, desirable, possible: origins of the island of California,”
Mercator’s World,
1996.

prices of up to $25,000
:
Antique Map Price Record
database search.

“Let me make it up to you”
:
Philip Burden, interview with the author.

Smiley sold Burden
 . . . Le Moyne map:
“Boston Public Library,” list from FBI to BPL, undated (August 2006).

sold Arkway
 . . . John White . . . John Smith:
“Boston Public Library,” list from FBI to BPL, undated (August 2006).

Robert Dudley
 . . . sold to . . . Bob Gordon:
Ron Grim, memorandum, “Unresolved issues,” November 6, 2006, LMC archives; e-mail from Ron Grim to Bernard Margolis, September 6, 2006, LMC archives; Bob Gordon, interview with the author.

Sir Robert Dudley
:
Burden,
Mapping of North America,
(266, 278, 279, 280), 340–341, 349–364; Derek Wilson,
The Uncrowned Kings of England,
357–370; Wilson,
Her Majesty’s Captain;
O.A.W. Dilke and Margaret S. Dilke, “Sir Robert Dudley’s
Contribution to Cartography,”
The Map Collector
19 (June 1982), 10–14; Chris Skidmore,
Death and the Virgin Queen,
26–29, 76–81, 308–312.

Smiley checked out the BPL’s copy
:
Robert Dudley,
Dell’ Arcano Del Mare,
1647, Boston Public Library, G1059 .D84 1647; “Dudley, Robert,” Smiley inventory #53, LMC archives.

C
HAPTER
10

Norman Leventhal announced
:
Catherine Foster, “Center to show off library’s map collection,”
The Boston Globe,
September 26, 2003.

celebration that November
:
Dana Bisbee, “Social scene; Joslin Center benefactors sparkle in diamond setting,”
Boston Herald,
November 17, 2003.

“the old kind of arrogance”
:
Krieger interview.

friends noticed the changes too
:
Slater, Statt, and Von Elgg interviews.

Smiley refused to respond to requests
:
Town of Sebec, Selectmen’s Meeting Notes, June 16, 2003; October 20, 2003; December 1, 2003; January 14, 2004.

“Do we put them in jail for noncompliance?”
:
Jessica Lee, “Sebec selectmen may pursue consent agreement with Sebec Village Shops’ owner,”
The Piscataquis Observer,
March 3, 2004.

handed down her decision
 . . . “goal in the village”:
Decision and Order, E. Forbes Smiley III v. The Inhabitants of the Town of Sebec, et al., Piscataquis County Superior Court, Docket No. AP-02-02, March 25, 2004; Jessica Lee, “Court decision sides with town,”
The Piscataquis Observer,
April 7, 2004.

“little oasis has been created”
:
Letter to the Editor,
The Piscataquis Observer,
April 7, 2004.

new garage on their property
:
Kim Martineau, “From life among the elite to charges of theft,”
Hartford Courant,
October 25, 2005.

Smiley woke to the sounds of a bulldozer
 . . . tearing up his land:
Smiley interview, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, August 2011; Andrew Taylor, interview with the author; Jessica Lee, “Invasive weed at root of Sebec controversy,”
The Piscataquis Observer,
July 23, 2003; Jessica Lee, “Sebec holds annual town meeting,”
The Piscataquis Observer,
August 13, 2003.

Access couldn’t have been easier
 . . . farthest from the circulation desk:
Hudson interview.

Melish map of the United States
:
John Melish, “Map of the United States with the Contiguous British & Spanish Possessions,” 1816, New York Public Library, Map Div. 01-11488.

Collet map of North Carolina
:
John Collet, “A Compleat Map of North Carolina from an Actual Survey by Captn. Collet, Governor of Fort Thurston,” 1770, New York Public Library, Map Division.

resold it to San Diego map dealer
 . . . “in our collection”:
Barry Ruderman and Alice Hudson, interviews with the author.

Thornton map
:
John Thornton, “A New Map of East and West New Jarsey: Being an Exact Survey Taken by Mr. Wolridge,” 1702–1707, New York Public Library, Map Div. 02-295 [No. 98].

Des Barres’s maritime atlas
:
Joseph F.W. Des Barres,
Atlantic Neptune
(Lenox
Copy), 1780, New York Public Library, Atlas cases (Des Barres, J.F.W. Atlantic Neptune).

William Faden’s Revolutionary War atlas
:
William Faden,
North American Atlas,
1777, New York Public Library, Atlas cases (Faden, W. North American atlas).

two editions of Samuel de Champlain’s
Voyages
:
Samuel de Champlain, Les Voyages . . . , 1613, *KB 1613 (Champlain, S. de. Voyages dv sievr de Champlain Xaintongeois); Samuel de Champlain, Les Voyages . . . , 1632, *KB 1632 (Champlain, S. de. Voyages de la Novvelle France occidentale (P. Le-Mvr).

auction at Swann Galleries
:
Arader interview; Receipt from Swann Galleries, December 9, 2004; “Maps & Atlases, Natural History, Historical Prints & Ephemera,” Public Auction Sale 2027, Swann Galleries, December 9, 2004.

“He is a crook”
:
Graham Arader and anonymous collector, e-mail exchange, January 24, 2005.

demolished the home in the summer
:
Kim Martineau, “Map of a crime: the arrest of antique map dealer E. Forbes Smiley III has thrown the staid world of libraries and collectors into turmoil,”
Hartford Courant,
July 17, 2005; William Finnegan, “A Theft in the Library,”
The New Yorker,
October 17, 2005.

contract
 . . . to build a house:
Statement of Account, David Pizzano, Dukes County Registry of Deeds, Book 1050, 105.

seemed foolish, even for Smiley
:
Slater and Statt interviews.

proposed building a private preschool
:
Chris Burrell, “Task force team presents Chilmark preschool plan to bolster enrollments,”
Vineyard Gazette
, July 12, 2004; Articles of Organization, Friends of the Chilmark Pre-School, July 20, 2004, Massachusetts Secretary of State filing no. 200477433080.

began looking for an exit strategy
 . . . unable to go back to bed:
Smiley interview.

new modular home
:
Nelson Sigelman, “Chilmark man pleads guilty to stealing valuable, antique maps from Yale University,”
Martha’s Vineyard Times
, June 29, 2006; Martineau, “From life among the elite.”

“left naked to the scrutiny”
:
Forbes Smiley, “Our house will disappear soon,” letter to the editor,
Martha’s Vineyard Times,
February 17, 2005.

“Money was no object”
:
David Pizzano, interview with the author.

tax lien
:
Federal tax lien, $57,063, January 20, 2005, Case no. 209805705.

had officially launched
:
Editorial, “Planning a map room,”
The Boston Globe,
October 6, 2004.

“
Smiley knows this collection
”
:
Ron Grim, interview with the author.

The American Pilot
:
Cobb and Krieger,
Mapping Boston
, 49–52. Donald A. Heald, Rare Books, Maps, and Prints, “[NORMAN, John]—William NORMAN (1748–1817): A Chart of South Carolina and Georgia,” http://www.donaldheald.com/maps/North%20America/maps_list_01.php?cat=North%20America&aut=South&sortfield=&pg=4.

Boston had four of them
:
John Norman,
The American Pilot,
Boston, 1794, Boston Public Library, G1106.P5 N6 1794x; William Norman,
The American Pilot,
Boston, 1798, Boston Public Library, G1106.P5 N6 1798; William Norman,
The American Pilot,
Boston, ca. 1798, Boston Public Library, G1106.P5 N6 1798.
2x; Andrew Allen,
The American Pilot,
Boston, 1816, Boston Public Library, G1106.P5 A4 1816x.

examined the last copy
:
Ron Grim, “Subject: inventory of missing items from publications used by Smiley at the Boston Public Library,” January 3, 2006, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center (LMC) archives.

took it down
 . . . happy to purchase it:
Newman interview.

went to Boston to view
 . . . check bounced:
Grim interview; Ronald E. Grim, letter to Christopher Schmeisser, August 29, 2006, LMC archives.

avoided the Harvard Map Collection
:
David Cobb, interview with the author.

copy of Champlain’s
Voyages
:
Samuel de Champlain,
Les Voyages . . . ,
Paris, 1612, Harvard College Library, Can 205.4*.

travelogues from several other
:
Claude Dablon,
Relation . . . de la Compagnie de Jesus en la Nouvelle France . . . ,
Paris, 1672, Harvard College Library, Can 236.70*; Claude Dablon,
Relation . . . de la Compagnie de Jesus en la Nouvelle France . . . ,
Paris, 1673, Harvard College Library, Can 236.71; Chrétien Le Clercq,
Establissement de la foy dans la Nouvelle France . . . ,
1691, Harvard College Library, *FC6.L4964.691pb; Marc Lescarbot,
Histoire de la Nouvelle France
 
. . . ,
1609, Harvard College Library, *FC6.L5635.609hab.

copy of Hubbard’s book
:
William Hubbard,
A Narrative of the Troubles with Indians in New-England
 
. . . ,
1677, *AC6.H8613.677na (A).

avoided going to the Beinecke
:
E.C. Schroeder, interview with the author.

book by German geographer
:
Johann Huttich,
Novus Orbis Regionum . . . ,
Paris, 1532, Yale University Library, CE141 +N68.

unusual “double-cordiform” map
:
Shirley,
Mapping of the World
, (66, Pl. 60); Richard B. Arkway, Inc., Catalog 54: World Maps, (11); Oronce Fine, “Nova et Integra Vniversi Orbis Descriptio,” Paris, 1532, Yale University Library, CE141 +N68.

brought it to Paul Cohen
 . . . never did:
Schroeder interview; Harry Newman and Paul Cohen, interviews with the author; Smiley interview.

valued at more than $40,000
:
Antique Map Price Record
database search.

even older book
:
Hernán Cortés,
Praeclara Ferdinãdi. Cortesii de noua maris Oceani Hyspania narratio . . . ,
Nuremberg, 1524, Yale University Library; Taylor,
World of Gerard Mercator,
58.

map of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán
:
Hernán Cortés, Untitled (Mexico City/Gulf of Mexico), 1524, Yale University Library, Taylor,
World of Gerard Mercator,
58; Barbara E. Mundy, “Mapping the Aztec Capital: The 1524 Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan, Its Sources and Meanings,”
Imago Mundi
, Vol. 50, 1998.