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July 1, 2000
Highlights from 706 New Maps added to the David Rumsey Collection.
All titles may be found by searching under Search/by Publication Author
using the author names below.
London
Atlas, 1844
John Arrowsmith
65 maps, including his Map of Texas and 4 important maps of Australia
and New Zealand.
Complete
System of Geography, 1747
Emanuel Bowen
70 maps, including 18 early maps of North and South America and the West
Indies.
Illustrated
Atlas of the United States, 1838
Thomas Bradford
39 maps, with his important Map of Texas, and Map of Iowa and Wisconsin.
American
Pocket Atlas, 1796
Mathew Carey
19 maps, the first American pocket atlas.
Map
of New Hampshire, 1816
Phillip Carrigain
Huge and detailed.
Map
of Louisiana, 1816
William Darby
Important, early map published by Melish.
Atlas
de Geographie, 1731
Guillaume DeLisle
94 maps. The second Paris edition of this important world atlas. Includes
many early maps of France, plus important early maps of the Americas,
including his Carte de la Louisiane, 1718.
New
American Atlas, 1826
Anthony Finley
15 maps.
Province
of Nova Scotia (Cape Breton Island), 1884
Geological Survey of Canada
24 highly detailed cultural and geological maps of Cape Breton Island.
New
Universal Atlas, 1840
Jeremiah Greenleaf
64 maps. Includes his Map of Texas and Map of Oregon Territory.
Map
of the State of Pennsylvania, 1792 and 1811
Reading Howell
The 1792 map is Howell's large and important wall map of the state; the
1811 edition is a smaller pocket map version.
West-India
Atlas, 1788
Thomas Jefferys
40
maps. Includes a digital composite map of the entire 15 sheet map of the
West Indies.
New
Illustrated Family Atlas, 1860
A.J. Johnson
55 maps. The first edition.
Map
of Cabotia, 1814
John Purdy
Huge wall map detailing Canada and the US Northeast.
Hand
Atlas, 1875
Adolf Stieler
89 maps. Perhaps the most highly detailed world atlas published in the
19th century.
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