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Subject: Additions to Rumsey online collection
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 22:35:33 GMT
From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
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The following are highlights from 1218 new maps just added to the David
Rumsey Map Collection, www.davidrumsey.com There are now over 10,000
map images online. 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 follow this link to the web page
listing the new maps and atlases:
http://www.davidrumsey.com/recentadditions.html
Atlas of the Metropolitan District (of New York City), 1891
Bien, Joseph Rudolph; Vermeule, C.C., New York
13 Maps. Covers New York City and the country around it, including
parts of New Jersey and Westchester County, New York. One of the finest
examples of color lithographic map printing from the press of Julius
Bien, noted American map publisher in the second half of the nineteenth
century.
Grand Atlas Universel, 1816
Brue, Adrien Hubert, Paris
50 Maps. Detailed, large scale maps of all the continents and France.
Carte de France, 1750-1815
Cassini, Cesar-Francois, Cassini family, Paris
210 Maps, including 18 digital composite maps joining the original
Cassini maps into groups of up to 16 joined maps for viewing entire
regions of France. The first accurate trigonometric survey of an entire
country, the Cassini maps span three generations of mapmakers and became
the model for later national surveys in England and the U.S.
Cartes et Tables de la Geographie Physique ou Naturelle, 1770
De Lisle, Guillaume; Buache, Philippe, Paris
20 Maps, tables, and diagrams. One of the first physical atlases published.
Atlas of Charts, 1828
E. & G.W. Blunt, New York
4 large charts on 10 sheets. An early atlas of charts of the United
States coast from Maine to Florida.
[General Atlas], 1811
Faden, William, London
60 Maps. Maps of the entire world, variously dated from 1785 to 1811.
Description de L’Egypte, Atlas Geographique, 1826
France, Commission des Sciences et Arts d”Egypt; Panckoucke, C.L.F., Paris
53 Maps. Covers the entire Nile River from its source to the delta, as
well the coast of Palestine. Very detailed maps by Pierre Jacotin in
French and Arabic.
Allgemeiner Hand Atlas der Erde, 1856
Geographisches Institut [Weimar, Germany]
70 Maps and diagrams. Extraordinarily detailed maps of the world,
including three solar system diagrams. The Geographic Institute at
Weimar was one of the finest and most prolific publishers of world
atlases in Germany during the nineteenth century.
Atlas of San Francisco, 1876
Humphreys, William P., San Francisco
60 Maps. A detailed plat book of San Francisco showing all recorded and
surveyed (though not necessarily built on) blocks of the city.
Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena, 1856
Johnston, Alexander Keith, Edinburgh
36 Maps and views. The second edition of an important nineteenth
century physical atlas that is partly derived from the Berghaus Physical
Atlas of 1849, also online.
Historical Atlas Map of Fresno County… California, 1891
Thompson, Thos. H., Tulare, California
105 Maps, views, and plans. Thompson made several county atlases of the
counties around San Francisco Bay, but this (with Tulare County below)
was the only county atlas made elsewhere in California.
Historical Atlas Map of Tulare County … California, 1892
Thompson, Thos. H., Tulare, California
164 Maps, views, and plans. A special sepia toned edition of this atlas
(limited to 150 copies). Thompson lived in Tulare County, which may
explain the great detail shown here, his largest county atlas production.
Atlas Universel: Europe, Asie, Afrique, Amerique Meridionle, Oceanique, 1827
Vandermaelen, Philippe, Bruxelles
400 maps and views. The first lithographic atlas of the world, with all
the maps on the same scale. If all the maps were joined together, they
would form a globe 7.75 meters in diameter (such a globe was made in
Brussels after the atlas was published). The North American volume,
Amerique Septentrionle, was put online previously, and these additional
five volumes complete the online atlas.
Phil Hoehn, Map Librarian
San Francisco -- [log in to unmask]
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