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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:51:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: christopher  winters <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: weird numbers on Italian city maps
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We've just acquired about a dozen urban maps published by Litografia
Artistica Cartografica in Florence. In most cases there is LC copy that
matches in every respect but one: the number that appears in one corner of
each map is different. LC's copy of the Palermo map, for example, had a 27
in one corner; ours has 107. Can anyone explain these numbers? Are they a
key to the date of publication or printing? (The only date that appears on
these maps is the date of the relevant copyright law.) Or is this perhaps
just some kind of printer's number? There are, of course, implications for
cataloging the maps.
 
I'd be grateful for any clues.
 
Chris Winters
University of Chicago Library
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