Wow, this is interesting. If anyone has this 1989 set of Touring Club
Italiano atlas volumes - you might want to check your shelves ...

Angie

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Subject:        Re: Atlante Tematico d'Italia
Date:   Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:43:36 -0400
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Thanks. We've got it. I am taking a look right now (varsol's at the ready).

Cameron Metcalf          Bibliothèque uOttawa Library - GSG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CARTA-L : Canadian Map & GIS Libraries and Archives [mailto:CARTA-
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> Subject: Atlante Tematico d'Italia
>
> Folks
> Just a warning about this atlas.  It's a 4-volume set published by Touring
> Club Italiano in 1989...superb thematic maps of Italy published in four
> volumes in separate boxes.
> I was reviewing our collection of foreign atlases and noticed that the cover
> of one of the volumes in this Italian set appeared to be discoloured.  When I
> removed the volume from the shelf, the box fell apart.  I checked the other
> three volumes..and they are in the same poor condition.   I decided I would
> have new box binders made up and after moving them to the Library office I
> noticed my hands were  covered in a tar-like substance.  This was the source
> of the "discolouration" on the first box i checked.  Now I see a black tarry
> substance on the shelves where the atlas was located and on the table in the
> Library office and on the atlases shelved adjacent to the Italian set.  I
> found the tar very difficult to remove from my hands.  Please note that
> although I am referring to this substance as tar, I have no idea what it is.
>   Richard