David Bosse
Biographic Data
| ID | 5839706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Bosse |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Bosse |
| SIGNATURE | BOSSE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Historic Deerfield Library , P.O. Box 53, Deerfield, Massachusetts, 01342, USA Phone: E-mail |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From the Collection
Mark Catesby’s primary role in making “Natural History of Carolina” is undeniable, but to what extent was he involved in creating the map and natural history illustrations? Unlike previous studies comparing different sets of the first edition to identify significant variations among illustrations that might reflect participation of multiple artists, we delve deeply into variations within a single set in the Winterthur Library. Using close visual …
Matthew Clark and the Beginnings of Chart Publishing in the United States
At the end of the eighteenth century Boston, Massachusetts, emerged as a centre of chart publishing in the United States. With little cartographic experience among them, Bartholomew Burges, John Norman and, later, Matthew Clark undertook a publishing venture that resulted in the first atlas of sea charts made in the United States. The research presented here redefines the roles of the principals and examines the atlas's relationship to other Bost…
Maps in the Marketplace
The sale and purchase of maps, charts, atlases, and globes in colonial British America and the early United States has received little scholarly attention. Most discussions of the eighteenth-century map trade have concerned activities in Europe or have focused on the production, rather than the consumption, of cartographic products. For much of the eighteenth century, the American map trade consisted of a wide variety of retailers selling more-or…
To promote useful knowledge’
In the early Federal period (1783–1799), American commercial cartography had yet to become an organized enterprise. Map publishers faced numerous challenges, including finding competent engravers. Publishers who lacked the financial resources to underwrite map produaion offered their product by subscription. This paper examines the efforts of John Coles, a painter/publisher, and John Norman, an engraver/printer, to publish and market a wall map o…
Civil War Newspaper Maps
Journal Article Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Historical Atlas. By David Bosse. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. x, 162 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-4553-X.) Get access Gary W. Gallagher Gary W. Gallagher Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Page 1730, https://doi.org/10.2307/20817…
Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps
Dartmouth on the Mississippi
Matthew Clark and the Beginnings of Chart Publishing in the United States
At the end of the eighteenth century Boston, Massachusetts, emerged as a centre of chart publishing in the United States. With little cartographic experience among them, Bartholomew Burges, John Norman and, later, Matthew Clark undertook a publishing venture that resulted in the first atlas of sea charts made in the United States. The research presented here redefines the roles of the principals and examines the atlas's relationship to other Bost…
Dartmouth on the Mississippi
Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps
Civil War Newspaper Maps
Journal Article Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Historical Atlas. By David Bosse. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. x, 162 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-4553-X.) Get access Gary W. Gallagher Gary W. Gallagher Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Page 1730, https://doi.org/10.2307/20817…
To promote useful knowledge’
In the early Federal period (1783–1799), American commercial cartography had yet to become an organized enterprise. Map publishers faced numerous challenges, including finding competent engravers. Publishers who lacked the financial resources to underwrite map produaion offered their product by subscription. This paper examines the efforts of John Coles, a painter/publisher, and John Norman, an engraver/printer, to publish and market a wall map o…
Maps in the Marketplace
The sale and purchase of maps, charts, atlases, and globes in colonial British America and the early United States has received little scholarly attention. Most discussions of the eighteenth-century map trade have concerned activities in Europe or have focused on the production, rather than the consumption, of cartographic products. For much of the eighteenth century, the American map trade consisted of a wide variety of retailers selling more-or…
Matthew Clark and the Beginnings of Chart Publishing in the United States
At the end of the eighteenth century Boston, Massachusetts, emerged as a centre of chart publishing in the United States. With little cartographic experience among them, Bartholomew Burges, John Norman and, later, Matthew Clark undertook a publishing venture that resulted in the first atlas of sea charts made in the United States. The research presented here redefines the roles of the principals and examines the atlas's relationship to other Bost…
From the Collection
Mark Catesby’s primary role in making “Natural History of Carolina” is undeniable, but to what extent was he involved in creating the map and natural history illustrations? Unlike previous studies comparing different sets of the first edition to identify significant variations among illustrations that might reflect participation of multiple artists, we delve deeply into variations within a single set in the Winterthur Library. Using close visual …
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