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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:10:24 -0700
From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: New David Rumsey Collection maps

Highlights from 706 new maps added to the David Rumsey Collection, July
1,
2000.  All titles may be found by searching the database
(www.davidrumsey.com) under Search/by Publication Author using the author
names below.

John Arrowsmith. London Atlas, 1844.  65 maps, including his Map of Texas
and 4 important maps of Australia and New Zealand.

Emanuel Bowen. Complete System of Geography, 1747.  70 maps, including 18
early maps of North and South America and the West Indies.

Thomas Bradford. Illustrated Atlas of the United States, 1838.  39 maps,
with his important Map of Texas, and Map of Iowa and Wisconsin.

Mathew Carey.  American Pocket Atlas, 1796.  19 maps, the first American
pocket atlas.

Phillip Carrigain.  Map of New Hampshire, 1816.  Huge and detailed.

William Darby. Map of Louisiana, 1816.  Important, early map published by
Melish.

Guillaume DeLisle.  Atlas de Geographie, 1731.  94 maps.  The second
Paris
edition of this important world atlas.  Includes many early maps of
France,
plus important early maps of the Americas, including his Carte de la
Louisiane, 1718.

Anthony Finley. New American Atlas, 1826.  15 maps.

Geological Survey of Canada. Province of Nova Scotia (Cape Breton
Island),
1884.  24 highly detailed cultural and geological maps of Cape Breton
Island.

Jeremiah Greenleaf.  New Universal Atlas, 1840.  64 maps.  Includes his
Map
of Texas and Map of Oregon Territory.

Reading Howell. Map of the State of Pennsylvania, 1792 and 1811.  The
1792
map is Howell's large and important wall map of the state; the 1811
edition
is a smaller pocket map version.

Thomas Jefferys.  West-India Atlas, 1788.  40 maps.  Includes a digital
composite map of the entire 15 sheet map of the West Indies.

A.J. Johnson. New Illustrated Family Atlas, 1860.  55 maps.  The first
edition.

John Purdy.  Map of Cabotia, 1814.  Huge wall map detailing Canada and
the
US Northeast.

Adolf Stieler. Hand Atlas, 1875.  89 maps.  Perhaps the most highly
detailed
world atlas published in the 19th century.

Phil Hoehn, Map Librarian
David Rumsey Collection
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www.davidrumsey.com