564 new maps and images have been added to the David Rumsey Collection.
Included are Jacob Green’s Astronomical Recreations, an early U.S. celestial atlas published by Anthony Finley in 1824; Finley’s pocket map version of his American Atlas, 1827; the graphically stunning Atlas Elementaire by Soulier and Andriveau-Goujon, published in Paris in 1838; a German atlas version of J. Calvin Smith’s important Map of the United States from 1852; an extensive geography text with maps – Colton’s Illustrated Cabinet Atlas of 1859, also online as a flip book at the Internet Archive; and the Ice Atlas of the Northern Hemisphere showing the extent of sea ice in 1946. All titles may be found by clicking on the View links or images below.
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