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Subject: A Year for Ukraine!
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:41:40 -0400
From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
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The Harvard Map Collection, the Boston Map Society and the Harvard
Ukrainian Research Institute recently opened the exhibit: /Visualizing
Ukriane: A Western Cartographic Perspective. /This exhibit displays a
selection of maps from the Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Ucrainica Antique
Map Collection that was presented to the Research Institute and Harvard
University in November 2005. This extraordinary collection includes over
900 maps as well as books, research files, and notebooks. The maps of
the Ukraine, from the fifteenth century to World War II, include maps by
Dutch, French, English, German, Italian, and other cartographers.
A brief description of the collection's holdings gives some idea of
Krawciw's knowledge. It is comprised of early European maps showing the
eastern parts of Ukraine, including those by the English traveler
Anthony Jenkinson dated 1562, and printed first in 1570 in Ortelius's
/Theatrum Orbis Terrarum./ There are also maps of western Ukraine and
neighboring areas by Waclaw Grodecki which appeared in many editions of
Ortelius's atlas, as well as similar maps printed in the 1593 atlas by
Gerard de Jode, and maps encompassing almost all of central Ukraine by
Gerard Mercator. The collection also contains numerous editions of
Guillaume le Vasseur de Beauplan's maps of Ukraine.
A catalogue describing the collection will be published this summer. The
collection is currently being cataloged and digitally imaged for public
distribution. Interested persons can search the Harvard Hollis catalog
with the following title: /Harvard Map Collection digital maps. Krawciw
Collection /to see early samples from our cataloging and digital imaging.
David Cobb
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David A. Cobb
Harvard Map Collection
Harvard College Library
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel. 617.495.2417
FAX 617.496.0440
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