The AGS Library has published a new book, <Manuscript and Annotated Maps in the American Geographical Society Library: A Cartobibliography>. The 77-page soft-cover volume was compiled by AGSL librarian Jovanka Ristić with the assistance of Scott McEathron.

The book offers descriptive entries on maps in AGSL that were drawn by hand dating from 1452 to the 1940's. Many of the maps listed are extremely rare, beginning with the oldest example, the 1452 “Map of the World’” by Venetian cartographer Giovanni Leardo. The <Cartobibliography> also has entries on AGSL’s  printed maps with manuscript annotations, including nautical charts notated by Charles Lindbergh as he planned the first trans-Atlantic flight.

The book has a bibliography, a comprehensive index and several appendices.

Publication of the <Cartobibliography> was supported by grants to the AGS Library.

For more information on AGS Library publications, visit our website: http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/AGSL/publ.cfm

An order form is available here: http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/AGSL/orderpub.cfm

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