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Tuesday, 10th April 2007

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Adds Over 1000 New Maps

David Rumsey Digital Map Collection Adds Over 1000 New Maps
Highlights include:
+ United States Exploring Expedition, 1845

United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842); Wilkes, Charles, Philadelphia
84 maps, views, and portraits. These illustrations appear in the five volumes of text that make up the narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition in the years 1838 to 1842. The large maps of the expedition were published in a separate volume.

+ Report U.S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian volume 1, 1875

+ Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States, 1883

+ Statistical Atlas of the United States, 1898

+ Atlante Internazionale, 1929
Touring Club Italiano, Milano.

177 maps and text pages. This magnificent atlas is the third edition of a work originally published in 1927. It rivals the 1922 Times Atlas of the World for both international coverage and cartographic excellence. Each map is accompanied by text that lists the sources of the map, as well as the terms used, the classification of towns, and a table of conventional signs.

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