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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 12:18:19 -0500
From: Jane Carlson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thank you so much to Mr. Herbert, Mr. McIntosh, and all of you helpful
Maps-L readers who replied to my inquiry.  I'm not sure if the message
below which I just received today has been sent to the list as well, but in
case it hasn't, I'm forwarding it for any others who are interested in the
topic.  It is packed with information!

Jane Carlson
Map Collection Assistant
University of Iowa Libraries

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From: "Gregory McIntosh" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: RE: Facsimile available? <fwd>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 09:05:50 PDT

Dear Ms Carlson,

Francis is correct (as usual).  I did not find that the Wenzlick Company was
still in business reproducing antique maps.  Roy W. Wenzlick (1894-1989) was
a prominent and influential real estate analyst, author, publisher, and
investor in the St. Louis area, though he became nationally known through
his speaking on the real estate market, his books, his articles, and his
periodical, “The Real Estate Analyst.”  He received his PhD in Economics
from St. Louis University in 1942.

He had a great interest in old maps and collected a great many examples. He
donated his map collection to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.  Mr.
Wenzlick was a graduate of Westminster College (1916).

He personal and business papers are in the Western Historical Manuscript
Collection, 222 Thomas Jefferson Library, University Of Missouri-St. Louis,
8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63121, 314-516-5143,
[log in to unmask]  The items in the Roy Wenzlick Collection, including
the much more extensive real business material, are available in microform
through interlibrary loan.

Included in these papers are examples of the maps he also reproduced and
other map material:

1424 Nautical Map
1545 North and South America Map
1545 New World Map
1618 World Map
1635 World Map
1673 Mississippi River Map
1679 World Map - Planisphere terrestre, suivant les nouvelles observations
des astronomes. Dresfeet presente au roy tres Chretien par Mr. Cassini le
Fils, de l'Academie Royal des Sciences
1718 Mississippi River Map
1725-1730 Berings Route Map
Walter W. Ristow and Clara E. LeGear, comp., <A Guide to Historical
Cartography: A Selected, Annotated List of References on the History of Maps
and Map Making>, 2d ed., rev., Washington, D.C., 1960.
Articles about Roy Wenzlicks Map Collection, 1971
Historic St. Louis County Map
Map Correspondence, 1955-1971
Map Material, 1953-1980
New York City Wall Map, 1955
New York City Street Maps
Printed Maps of the XVI to XIX Centuries, 1959
Subdivision Plat Map

The 1587 Abraham Ortelius map - Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio –
was also reproduced by Mr. Wenzlick from his collection.  Probably others
also.

Now – as to your question regarding obtaining a facsimile or reproduction of
the 1587 Ortelius map of the New World, I am chagrined to say that I do not
have with me a copy of <Antique Map Reproductions: A Directory of Publishers
& Distributors of Antique Map, Atlas & Globe Facsimiles & Reproductions>,
Lakewood, California: Plus Ultra Publishing Co., 1998, ISBN 0-9667462-0-1,
in which through diligent searching, one might find your map listed.  Your
acquisitions department can, of course, order a copy from your library
service company, e.g., Midwest, Yankee Peddler, etc.  There is available a
color reproduction of the first edition of the same Ortelius map of 1570
with the potato-shaped South America.  It is produced by Historic Urban
Plans in Ithaca, New York.   I happen to have this beautiful map framed and
hanging on my living room wall.

If you wish, <Antique Map Reproductions: A Directory . . . ." may be ordered
from your library service company, Amazon.com, or directly from the
publisher.

Plus Ultra Publishing Company
19615 Donna Avenue
Cerritos, CA 90703-6436
USA
tel: 562-924-4348
fax: 419-781-8409
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Greg McIntosh

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