Atlases

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Images of maps in the GEOGRAPHY category of DATABASES

Note that some of David Rumsey's maps have individual catalog records in the CUL catalog, such as:

Bolivia or Upper Peru; Chili and the United Provinces of South America or La Plata, ca. 1831.

Olin Map Collection

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History of Cartography

Harley, J. B., and David Woodward, eds. The History of Cartography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. v. 2, bk. 3. Cartography in the traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific societies See especially, the chapter, “Mapmaking in the Central Andes

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