{"id":1785789,"date":"2018-06-18T13:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785789"},"modified":"2018-06-18T13:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:38:52","slug":"william-reese-1955-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/06\/william-reese-1955-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"William Reese, 1955-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Haven rare book dealer William Reese\u00a0died earlier this month at the age of 62<\/a>; he’d been suffering from prostate cancer.\u00a0Reese, who founded his\u00a0eponymous company<\/a> in 1975, is a familiar name to map collectors; both his first significant sale<\/a> and his last sale, according to the\u00a0New York Times<\/em> obituary, were cartographic in nature. [Tony Campbell<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Previously:\u00a0Intact Atlas, Asking 165 Large<\/a>;\u00a0Reese Donates $100K to Yale for Map Digitization<\/a>; Connecticut Public Radio on Forbes Smiley Sentence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Haven rare book dealer William Reese\u00a0died earlier this month at the age of 62; he’d been suffering from prostate cancer.\u00a0Reese, who founded his\u00a0eponymous company in 1975, is a familiar name to map collectors; both… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,581],"tags":[384],"class_list":["post-1785789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-map-collecting","category-obituaries","tag-map-dealers","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787370,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/lunar-cartography-during-the-age-of-apollo\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785789,"position":0},"title":"Lunar Cartography During the Age of Apollo","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 May 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Writing for Crosscut, Tom Reese memorializes his father, who worked as a cartographer and engineer for NASA's Aeronautical Chart and Information Center during the Apollo program. 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Amherst and hand-drawn by William Brasier, has been acquired by the University of Michigan\u2019s William L. 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