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Subject: New maps in online Rumsey Collection
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:17:19 GMT
From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
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The following are highlights from 1564 New Maps added to the David
Rumsey Collection at www.davidrumsey.com on October 15, 2005.
The online collection now totals 12,645 maps and 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.
A page providing links to the new additions is at
www.davidrumsey.com/recentadditions.html
31 Children’s' School Atlases ranging in date from 1777 (William Faden,
Geographical Exercises, London) to 1875 (Samuel August Mitchell, Ancient
Atlas, Philadelphia). Highlights include M.B. Moore, Geographical Reader
for Dixie Children (a rare Civil War era school atlas published in
Raleigh, North Carolina); American school atlases published by Morse,
Worcester, Carey, Cornell, Cummings, Woodbridge, Willard, Grigg, Adams,
Goodrich, Huntington, Olney, Fitch, Mitchell, and Smith; a manuscript
school atlas by Francis Bowen, 1810; J.B. Clouet, Geographie Moderne,
Paris, 1787; Delamarche and Lattre, Petit Atlas Moderne, Paris, 1800;
and Edward Patteson, General and Classical Atlas, Surrey, 1804.
A Chart of North and South America, 1753
Green, John; Jefferys, Thomas, London
First Edition of this important chart showing North and South America
and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The first chart to label Behring's
Straits, and the most accurate map of its time in establishing more
correct placements of the coasts of the Americas and Northeastern Asia.
A New General Atlas, 1817
Thomson, John, Edinburgh.
86 Maps and text pages. The first edition of an important atlas of the
World. This atlas was inspired by Pinkerton's Modern Atlas of 1815 (see
our copy), which it resembles.
Atlas Encyclopedique Contenant les Cartes and les Planches Relatives a
la Geographie Physique, 1827
Desmarest, Nicholas; Bury de Saint-Vincent, M., Paris
52 maps, views, and text sheets. An early physical atlas.
Atlas Universel de Geographie Ancienne et Moderne, 1833
Lapie, M. (Pierre); Lapie, Alexandre Emile, Paris
54 Maps and text pages. First edition, dated 1829 on the title page but
with some maps dated 1833. The Carte des Etats-Unis is a magnificent
map, showing the continent from coast to coast.
Traveaux d'Amelioratins Interieures Projetes ou Executes par le
Gouvernement General des Etas-Unis d'Amerique, 1834
Poussin, Guillaume Tell, Paris
14 Maps and text pages. Exceptionally well drawn maps and plans that
detail the ambitious public works projects (primarily canals) undertaken
in the United States in the period 1824 to 1831.
Statistical Atlas of the United States, 1874
Walker, Francis A; United States Census Office, Washington
57 Maps, diagrams, and text pages. The first statistical atlas published
by the United States Government, based on the census of 1870.
Report on a Plan for San Francisco, 1905
Burnham, Daniel H., San Francisco
55 Maps, diagrams, views, and text pages. First edition. Shows an
elaborate plan to redesign San Francisco with the creation of huge
boulevards cutting across the existing street grid. The earthquake and
fire that occurred the following year, 1906, rendered the scheme obsolete.
(Various U.S. State, County, and City Atlases), 1872-1903
Various Authors
G.M. Hopkins & Co.
Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, 1872
White, M. Wood; Gamble, William H.; Miller, M.A..
Atlas of the State of West Virginia, 1873
Martinet, Simon J.; Walling, H.F.; Gray, O.W.; Lloyd, H.H.
Atlas of the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia, 1873
Fuller, Henry; J.B. Beers & Co.
Farm Line Map of the City of Brooklyn, 1874
Hopkins, Griffith Morgan
City Atlas of Providence, Rhode Island (3 volumes), 1875
Everts & Kirk
Atlas of Nebraska, 1885
Beers, F.W.; (Watson, Gaylord)
Atlas of the Hudson River Valley, 1891
Bromley, George Washington; Bromley, Walter Scott
Atlas of the City of Boston, Boston Proper and Roxbury, 1895
Richards, L.J.; J.P. Brown & Co.
Atlas of Dorchester, West Roxbury, and Brighton, City of Boston, 1899
Bromley, George Washington; Bromley, Walter Scott
Atlas of the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1903
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Philip Hoehn, Map Librarian
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