Featuring Kate Hunter, Senior Specialist, Daniel Crouch Rare Books in conversation with Arthur Dunkelman, curator, Jay I. Kislak Collection, University Libraries.

Thursday, June 8, 2023, 1 p.m. (EDT)

 

Kate Hunter has helped private collectors and institutional libraries to acquire and catalog maps, globes, and atlases the world over. Currently, she is the senior specialist at the New York office of Daniel Crouch Rare Books. She is also consulting curator and cataloger for the Map and Atlas Museum of La Jolla, California.

Hunter shares stories about three maps. The first is a map of Western Australia, where she grew up. The second is a Dutch East India Company [VOC] 18th-century chart of the Indian Ocean on vellum that helped the company establish a trade route that netted a fortune. Lastly, she looks at a silver punch bowl whose upside-down surface includes an engraved map that is an early rendering of Captain James Cook's first voyage (1769–1770).


ABOUT THE PRESENTER
During her three-decade career, Kate Hunter has witnessed great changes, from a landscape over-populated by independent bookshops, to one that is almost bereft of them. According to Hunter, much of today's commerce takes place online, and that has transformed the way collectors collect—from compulsive completists focused with detailed "want lists" to trophy-hunting connoisseurs. Read more »

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Prior to joining the University of Miami Libraries as the Curator of the Kislak Collection, Arthur Dunkelman served as Director and Curator of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation for 24 years. In 2004 a portion of the Kislak Foundation Collection was donated to the Library of Congress; Dunkelman was responsible for managing the transition and establishing research and public outreach programs. Two exhibitions, "Treasures of the Jay I. Kislak Collection" (2005) and "Exploring the Americas" (2007 to present), highlighted the materials and brought them to national and international attention. He also edited a comprehensive catalog of the collection, published by the Library of Congress. Read more »