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Subject: map cataloguing: publisher's name
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:45:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
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Hello, cataloguing colleagues.

I have a map of Turin with a challenging publisher's name.

Title: Torino, in a box with a numbered key called Monumentali principali.
Scale 1:15,000.  Date 1961.  Publisher's name is mostly inscrutable
script.  I can make out either an I or J at the beginning of the first
word, and maybe a V for the second, or it could be a long ligature from
the first word. One possibility is "Ist. Visceglia", but I cannot really
make the legible letters match that, and it does not look like any of
Istituto geografico Visceglia maps I have seen up to now.  The date is in
script as well as the name.  It is preceded by "Diritti riservati" (rights
reserved).

It is a pictorial map, oriented with north to the left.  On the verso is a
street index, a panel stating "benvenuti a torino", and text with the
keyed Monumenti principali, and lists of transit lines:  linee tranviare,
linee filoviare,, and linee di autobus extraurbabe della A.T.M.  In the
lower right, in very small letters is:  "steb bologna 1961".

I have found no possible matches in OCLC.  I've begun a look at some
major British holdings such as Oxford University's OLIS and the British
Library catalog, so far to no avail.

I am trying to make out the name claiming the diritti riservati and to
determine whether this body is located in Bologna.  So far all the
Istituto geografico Visceglia maps have been published in Rome.

Any thoughts one can provide would be helpful.

Ken
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Ken Grabach                           <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA