-------- Original Message -------- Subject: map cataloguing: publisher's name Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:45:07 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] ------------------ 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 ___________________________ Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]> Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726 Miami University Libraries Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA