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Subject: New Maps added to David Rumsey Collection
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:34:44 GMT
From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
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The following are highlights from *1148 New Maps* added to the David
Rumsey Collection, www.davidrumsey.com <http://www.davidrumsey.com/>.
The online map collection now totals 14,828 maps and related images.
All titles may be found by launching the Insight Browser or Java Client
and searching under Search/by Publication Author using the author last
names below. Or go to www.davidrumsey.com/recentadditions.html
<http://www.davidrumsey.com/recentadditions.html> to view all 1148 new maps.
*Atlas Nouveau, 1742 *
/Lisle, Guillaume de; Covens & Mortier, Amsterdam /
121 maps and text pages. The Amsterdam edition of De Lisle's maps,
adding maps by Sanson, Jaillot and others.
*Globo Terrestre, Globo Celeste, 1792 *
/Cassini, Giovanni Maria, Rome/
24 globe gores on 8 sheets with 2 additional plates. 12 terrestrial and
12 celestial globe gores from an important Italian map publisher.
*New Universal Atlas, 1802 *
/Kitchin, Thomas; Robert Laurie and James Whittle, London. /
91 Maps. Maps dated 1794-1802. Many of the maps are updated from
Kitchin's 1790 General Atlas, and Thomas Jefferys' 1776 American Atlas.
*New and Elegant General Atlas, 1804 *
/Arrowsmith, Aaron; Lewis, Samuel, Philadelphia/
63 maps. An early American atlas that went through several editions. It
is an interesting example of collaboration between London (Arrowsmith)
and Philadelphia (Lewis) map makers.
*Map of the United States, Exhibiting the Post-roads, 1809 *
/Bradley, Abraham Junior, Washington, D.C. /
Third edition. The map is dated 1804 but the delineation of the
political geography indicates a date of 1809. An important road map
showing the system of postal routes of the emerging United States.
*New and Elegant General Atlas, 1812 *
/Arrowsmith, Aaron; Lewis, Samuel, Boston/
63 maps. A later edition of the Arrowsmith and Lewis atlas.
*Edinburgh** Geographical and Historical Atlas, 1831 *
/Lizars, Daniel; Hamilton, John, Edinburgh and London /
66 Maps. Some of the finest maps of the period. This atlas was very
accurate in this first edition; later editions were not always
sufficiently updated.
* Land Sale Maps, San Francisco, California, 1860-1873 *
/(California) Board of Tide Land Commissioners, Britton & Co, San Francisco/
A group of six maps showing lands for sale in the city of San Francisco
and in the tide-lands around San Francisco Bay.
*Atlas of the Entire City of New York, 1879 *
/G.W. Bromley & Co.; Geo. W. Bromley & E. Robinson, New York/
62 Maps. Bromley published several atlases of New York City and this was
his first. Shows land ownership and building locations in great detail.
Various newspaper articles and other documents are attached to the
versos of many maps, explaining the history of areas keyed in ms on the
maps. Annotations or pasted-on notes are found on most of the maps.
*Allgemeiner Handatlas, 1881 *
/Andree, Richard, Leipzig/
72 Maps. First edition of an important 19th and early 20th century
German world atlas. The maps are printed in color and simplified
compared to the competing Stieler world atlases also published in
Germany at that time. The atlas features many innovative thematic maps.
*Letts's Popular Atlas, 1883 *
/Letts, Son & Co., London/
152 Maps. An inexpensive and highly detailed popular British atlas, with
especially detailed coverage of India and Russia, and many cities of the
world.
*Atlas of New Hampshire, 1892 *
/D.H. Hurd & Co., Boston/
281 Maps and views. This massive state atlas uses a new style of view
with the maps - a cross between photography and drawn views.
*The Times Atlas, 1895 *
/Times (London, England); Andree, Richard, London/
78 Maps. First edition of the Times Atlas of the World, with maps by
Richard Andree of Germany, translated into English. Compare this atlas
to the Andree Handatlas above.
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later editions (1922), The Times used maps published by John Bartholomew
of Edinburgh.
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earlier collaboration with a German publishing house was unusual.
*Atlas California Earthquake, April 18, 1906, 1908 *
/California//. State Earthquake Investigation Commission, Washington, D.C./
41 Maps and diagrams. Detailed maps and geologic profiles of the
devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906, plus reproductions of
seismograms from many earthquake stations.
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Philip Hoehn, Map Librarian
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