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Subject:        David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Adds More than 1000 New
Digitized Maps
Date:   Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:53:49 -0500 (CDT)
From:   Jim Walsh <[log in to unmask]>
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FYI...  The following was posted to the 4/4/06 Resource Shelf.
The direct link to this is: http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/04/david-rumsey-historical-map-collection.html

Jim Walsh

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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
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Historical Maps
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Adds More than 1000 New Digitized Maps

Review all of the new maps here. Highlights include:

+ Introduction a la Geographie, 1717
Fer, Nicolas de, Paris
6 Maps and plates. An early French geography book. Includes a map of California as an island.

+ Thomas's Library Atlas, 1835
Thomas, Joseph; Fenner, Rest, London
71 Maps. A pocket atlas, also used as a school atlas. Includes 26 classical maps.

+ New General Atlas, editions of 1870, 1880, and 1890
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus, Philadelphia
3 editions of a very popular 19th century American Atlas, showing the political and economic expansion of the United States over three decades. The 1870 edition includes R.A. Campbell's Atlas of Illinois.

+ 8 Atlases of Westchester County and Northern New York City, ranging in date from 1881 to 1914. The atlases show rapid suburban growth over 30 years along the railroad lines running north from New York City. Titles include Bromley, Westchester County 1881 (first edition); Bromley, Westchester County 1910; Bromley, Westchester County 1914 (two volumes); Bromley, Northern New York City, 1893; Hyde, Westchester County 1900; Hyde, Rural District North of New York City, 1908; and Mueller, City of Yonkers 1907.