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Subject:        New online maps - David Rumsey Collection
Date:   Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:47:23 GMT
From:   Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
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The following are highlights from 1041 New Maps added to the David
Rumsey Collection,  www.davidrumsey.com  The online collection now
numbers 15,869 maps and related images.  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 go
to  www.davidrumsey.com/recentadditions.html for a complete listing.

United States Exploring Expedition, 1845
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842); Wilkes, Charles,
Philadelphia
84 maps, views, and portraits. These illustrations appear in the five
volumes of text that make up the narrative of the United States
Exploring Expedition in the years 1838 to 1842. The large maps of the
expedition were published in a separate volume.

Atlas of Hamilton County, Ohio, 1869
Harrison, Robert H.; Titus, Clarence O, Philadelphia
44 maps and views. There are ten detailed maps of Cincinnati. Colton's
Ohio map is used without attribution and under Titus' imprint. The
plans of towns and counties are typical for the period; no views,
except for the last page which has two views and a description of
Longview Asylum.

Report U.S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian volume 1, 1875
Wheeler, G.M., Washington, D.C.
287 maps, views, diagrams, and text pages. These images comprise most
of the illustraions in the first of the seven text volumes of the
Wheeler survey published from 1875 to 1889. The first volume,
Geographical Report, contains much valuable information on the general
history of western U.S. mapping and specific details on the sources of
the Survey's map sheets.

Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States, 1883
(United States. Census Office); Hewes, Fletcher W.; Gannett, Henry, New
York
161 maps, diagrams, and text pages. First edition, based on the 1880
U.S. Census.

Statistical Atlas of the United States, 1898
United States Census Office; Gannett, Henry, Washington, D.C.
69 maps, diagrams, and text pages. This atlas is based upon the results
of the United States Eleventh Census of 1890.

Twelfth Census of the United States, taken in the year 1900,
Statistical Atlas, 1903
United States Census Office; Gannett, Henry, Washington, D.C.
219 maps, diagrams, and text pages. Maps by Julius Bien & Co. The maps
are in color and overwhelmingly thematic in nature covering the topics
of population, vital statistics, agriculture, and manufacturing.

Atlante Internazionale, 1929
Touring Club Italiano, Milano.
177 maps and text pages. This magnificent atlas is the third edition of
a work orginally published in 1927. It rivales the 1922 Times Atlas of
the World for both international coverage and cartographic excellence.
Each map is accompanied by text that lists the sources of the map, as
well as the terms used, the classification of towns, and a table of
conventional signs.




Philip Hoehn, Map Librarian
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