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Sue,
 
Wow! Something similar happened to me while working on about four maps
early in the year. One is on Czechoslovakia (OCLC#37859686), another, under
the banner of "Euro City" is on Riga, Latvia (OCLC#35712164). I remember
"Kartografie: GeoData" on at least two titles, and also the phrase
"Laufzeit [date]", which I believe is an edition statement. I think the
Czech map was copyrighted by "Reise- und Verkehrsverlag", so if you do an
author search on OCLC you will turn up similar titles that might help you
with this one.
 
Most frustrating is the fact that all the title info. is on the cover, so,
since we pull off covers because they tend to catch on other maps in a
drawer and tear them and/or take up additional critical space, someone
casually leafing through the folder it is in might not instantly recognize
what he/she is looking at! I feel funny about having a bib. record with a
specific title and then once the cover is tossed the physical piece really
does *not* have a title! Just another complication...
 
Paige
 
At 12:43 PM 2/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>Some contemporary commercial maps can drive you crazy!
>
>I have here a map of Europe, no title on the sheet, itself,
>but the cover it's folded into has: Euro Cart, Euro-
>-Continental Map 1:2,500,000, Europe.
>Also on cover: American Map Corporation, Maspeth NY.
>
>In the margin of the sheet we see that the copyrights are:
>RV Verlag, with another one which has: Kartografie: GeoData.
>No date, but this: " Laufzeit 1998".
>
>A search through OCLC shows that others in the Euro Cart
>series were published by Kummerly and Frey--and RV Verlag
>was involved, also.
>
>Which entity is the real publisher? Is American Map Corp.
>just the U.S. distributor?
>
>More and more we see that one company's maps are issued
>inside a different publisher's cover.
>
>Well, what map cataloguer doesn't love all this complexity!
>
>Sue Haffner
>Map Library
>CSU Fresno
>Fresno, Calif.
>