Another New Essay

On the origins of “cartobibliography” (a word I want to discard) in the work of Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis in the 1830s and 1840s

Now that the festschrift has been presented to Peter van der Krogt on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Amsterdam last Friday (24 June 2022), I can announce my own contribution:

Edney, Matthew H. 2022. “Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis, Localist Map History and Cartobibliography.” In Atlantes amicorum Peter van der Krogt, ed. Paula van Gestel-van het Schip, 313–23. Leiden: Brill | Hes & De Graaf Publishers.

The essay is part of a larger argument I am developing about understanding the history of “cartobibliography” according to how scholars select the maps to be described, and not about how they go about describing the maps. In this case, in 1830s and 1840s Leiden, Bodel Nijenhuis pioneered the practice of listing early maps in a reasoned manner, which is to say in a manner akin to art historians’ catalogue raisonné as it had emerged in the early nineteenth century. A fuller statement has been submitted to a journal and is under review.

The acknowledgements are crucial:

This essay is indeed a spin off from the current writing project, although I must admit that I have further changed the title and neglected to essay in proofs. The next book will be called The Map: Concepts and Histories.

Go to my classified bibliography (see menu) to access the paper.