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If you wish to list valuable resources, and keep the digital resources
relatively complete, you would have to include the _Antique Map Price
Guide_ (http://www.oldmaps.com/), which is about 2.5 times the size of
the CD offering noted at Fine Books & Collections Magazine. As Tony
noted, the _Antique Map Price Record_ is now digital, and located at
www.maprecord.com. As to the announcement of the "first catalogue," in
_Fine Books and Collections_, well...
Joel Kovarsky
On 5/11/2010 5:32 AM, Tony Campbell wrote:
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Fine Books & Collections
<http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2010/05/antique-map-catalogue.phtml>
announces (on May 10th) 'Antique Map Dealer Publishes The First
Catalogue Of The World's Printed Antique Maps, >From The Year 1472 To
1850'. This proves to be Map World's Antique Map Catalogue For
Collectors <http://map-world.com/antique-maps.html>. It comprises
25,000 printed maps up to 1850 and, because its context is the thesis
that maps are good investments, it 'gives every map's current
replacement value, from £50 to £6 million'. [No doubt Maphisters will
wish to draw up their own list of the £6 million = $9 million maps.]
My reason for mentioning it is not to promote what is essentially a
commercial exercise but to wonder what - as the first [sic] such work
- it might add to the long established /Antique Map Price Record/
<http://www.maprecord.com/index.html> (AMPR), issued in print since
the early 1980s and in annual editions online since 2002. At a current
total of 133,000 records, this is almost three times the size of Map
World's new offering. Besides its commercial information, the AMPR is
also a valuable, and well illustrated, bibliographical resource.
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2010/05/antique-map-catalogue.phtml
http://map-world.com/antique-maps.html
http://www.maprecord.com/index.html
Tony Campbell
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