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Subject:        RE: Atlante Tematico d'Italia
Date:   Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:24:07 -0400
From:   Redmond, Edward James <[log in to unmask]>
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I've just examined our copy and there is some very slight black discoloration where the box meets the box cover.  Thankfully, the atlas pages are not discolored.

The atlas is in four volumes; each volume housed in black plastic/plastic-like covered boxes and, I assume, that the discoloration is the breakdown of the plastic like substance covering the boxes.

Ed

Ed Redmond
Geography & Map Reference Specialist
Library of Congress
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Subject: Atlante Tematico d'Italia

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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> From: CARTA-L : Canadian Map & GIS Libraries and Archives
> [mailto:CARTA- [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Pinnell
> Sent: July 9, 2010 10:25 AM
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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