The University of Nevada Reno has added more important works to their online historic Nevada geologic and mining maps collection.

The additions include:

the full volume of Geological  History of Lake Lahontan,  a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada.  1885, Israel  Cook Russell.  USGS Monograph XI;

the complete Atlas accompanying the US Geological Exploration Survey of the Fortieth Parallel, 1876. Clarence King, and

Plate  XIV Geological map of the Steamboat Springs District. In Atlas to accompany a monograph on the geology of the Quicksilver deposits of the Pacific slope.  George F. Becker.  US Geological Survey Monograph XIII, Washington, 1887.

The original focus of the Nevada in Maps web site was to catalog and preserve historic maps of Nevada presenting topographic, geologic, and mining themes found at UNLV and UNR. There are now over 4,000 maps and atlases on this site with many more to be added.

Via: Maps-L

It’s Pittsburgh’s 250th Anniversary this year and as part of the celebrations, a number of maps have been assembled and scanned for online viewing at Pittsburgh 250: Maps from 1759 to Almost Now.

General John Forbes bestowed the name on the Forks of the Ohio in November, 1758, after chasing out the French & Indians and occupying an abandoned Fort Duquesne. The name honors William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and head of government at the time. This selection of maps and views presents a history of the city and region from that moment to near the present; some can be seen on other pages of this website.

As noted on the above web site, Historic Pittsburgh has even more maps of Pittsburgh available for searching and viewing online. Of particular interest are the maps from the 1872 G. M. Hopkins Pittsburgh atlas

Via: MapHist

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A 526-year-old map, stolen from the National Library of Spain last year, has been returned to Spain by Australian authorities. The map was from a rare edition of the atlas Cosmographia. It was recovered in Austraila last year after 18 documents were stolen from Spain’s National Library in a much publicized robbery.

See the full story, ”Australia returns rare 1482 map to Spain” at the Sydney Morning Herald’s web site.

The Austrailian Broadcasting Corporation’s web site also has a news item on the return of the map, including a 3 minute audio clip on the 15th Century map and it’s return to the Spanish.

[tags]map theft, stolen maps, antique maps, Cosmographia, Ptolemy[/tags]

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) has announced the publication of a new atlas: Mapping a Continent: Historical Atlas of North America, 1492-1814:

Written by Jean-François Palomino, map librarian at BAnQ, and historians Raymonde Litalien and Denis Vaugeois, the work outlines the history of the continent and its cartographic representation. Featuring about 40 chapters on subjects as varied as Amerindian cartography, Acadia, North American place names, the Northwest Passage, the hydrography of the St. Lawrence, and England’s conquest of Canada, Mapping a Continent is superbly illustrated with some 200 old maps and prints, taken for the most part from BAnQ’s collections but also from several other famous collections from Canada, the United States and Europe.

Mapping a Continent: Historical Atlas of North America, 1492-1814 (cloth with dust jacket, 300 pages, colour throughout with index and bibliography) will be on sale for $89 at the Boutique of the Grande Bibliothèqueand in bookstores throughout Québec. The book is available in its original French version, La mesure d’un continent : atlas historique de l’Amérique du Nord, 1492-1814. The English version was translated by Kdthe Roth and jointly published with McGill-Queen’s University Press.

In a press release today, Harvard University announces Harvard Map Collection Digitizes Historic Cambridge and Boston Atlases.

Newly digitized atlases of Cambridge include the years 1873, 1885, 1886, 1894, 1900, 1903, and 1916. Due to copyright law, the Map Collection can’t digitize beyond that. Digitized years for Boston atlases include 1867, 1873, 1885, 1887, and 1902, each with seven volumes. In fact, the 1867 item was the very first fire insurance atlas of Boston, made by Daniel Sanborn, a local surveyor from Somerville who founded the Sanborn Map Company.

Digitized maps from the Map Collection can be viewed by searching in HOLLIS using “Harvard Map Collection digital maps” as the title search term.

The digitization of the Boston and Cambridge atlases is part of a larger Library Digital Initiative Project that the division calls “Imaging the Urban Environment” and that involves maps from 30 cities around the world. “We’re going to start with the earliest map of each city we have, usually somewhere in the 1570s or 1580s and then digitally capture another map of the same city approximately every 50 years, up to 1900 or so. These can then be used by students, faculty, and researchers and scholars around the world to see a nice time-series analysis for these various cities.”

Via MapHist

I received the following e-mail this morning and in an effort to get the word out, I am posting it here:

Please be advised that on 20 August an atlas was stolen from a private premises in Normandy in France.
The atlas contains 48 maps in contemp. colours of all parts of the world by Hugo Allardt and F.de Wit.

The atlas has a manuscript index and is bound in contemp. brown calf.
A list of the included maps is to be found at
http://www.loeb-larocque.com/ENGstolen_atlas.html

Please contact us if this atlas will be, or has been offered to you:

Béatrice Loeb-Larocque

Librairie Loeb-Larocque
31 rue de Tolbiac, 75013 Paris France
Tél/FAX +33 (0)1 44.24.85.80
By appointment only / Sur rendez-vous

http://www.loeb-larocque.com/

Cartes Géographiques Anciennes – Livres – Estampes

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