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Subject: Additions to Rumsey online collection
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:21:24 GMT
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The following are highlights from 811 New Maps added to the David Rumsey
Collection, www.davidrumsey.com/recentadditions.html  The online
collection now numbers over 8,800 maps.

      (Plan of the City of Saint Petersburg), 1753
      Akademiia nauk SSSR.
      36 Maps and views. This atlas includes a detailed 9 sheet map of
Saint
      Petersburg, shown as 9 separate images plus a composite image of
all 9
      sheets joined together. It also has numerous views of the city.
This copy
      belongs to the Map Library at the University of Michigan.

      Pictorial St. Louis, 1876
      Compton, Richard J.; Dry, Camille N.
      110 views. An atlas containing the largest bird's eye view of an
American
      city. The 110 sheets of the view appear separately and joined as a
      composite that is approximately 8 feet high and 25 feet wide.

      (Voyages in the Pacific Ocean), 1773, 1777, and 1785.
      Cook, James.
      205 Maps and views. Includes all the maps, charts, views,
portraits and
      other images that appear in the nine volume set of Cook's three
voyages
      published between 1773 and 1785.

      Atlas of the State of South Carolina, 1825.
      Mills, Robert.
      30 Maps. The first atlas of a state published in the U.S. Detailed
maps of
      all 28 Districts (counties) by Henry Tanner.

      (Maps of California and the U.S. West), 1846 - 1859.
      Mitchell, S. Augustus.
      20 Maps. A sequence of maps showing the transformation of the U.S.
West
      from 1846 to 1859. All the maps appeared in various editions of
Mitchell's
      New Universal Atlas.

      A Series of Charts (of) The Bay of San Francisco, 1852.
      Ringgold, Cadwalader.
      16 Maps and views. Some of the earliest and most accurate charts
and
      profile views of San Francisco Bay.

      (Railroad Time Table Maps, Automobile Maps, Airline Maps), various
dates.
      Various Publishers.
      284 images. A group of 19th century railroad timetable maps from
all parts
      of North America, plus early automobile and airline maps.




Phil Hoehn, Map Librarian
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