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Dear Mariarosa, I don't work in the Newberry Library, but I have done a lot of work in their ancient maps department, which until recently was so competently headed by Robert W. Karrow. The holdings are truly extensive, and there is a separate catalog on the premises for the collection. It is, I believe, the same catalolg which was "semi-published", if I may say that, as typescript leaves, in 1970, as follows: Newberry Library, Chicago. Franco Novacco Collection. Franco Novacco Collection of Sixteenth Century Separately Printed Italian Maps Purchased by Newberry Library, Summer 1967. Chicago, 1970. (136 leaves/31 cm) This catalog also exists in the form of microfilm, and you may be able to order a copy of it from the library. I have a copy of the catalog on film, but my wife and I recently moved, and it is among the things which have not yet resurfaced in our new dwelling, and, in any event, I don't have immediately available to me facilities to have a copy of the film made for you. But you should know that the Newberry has a public online catalog of its map holdings which is very easy to use, and is very comprehensive, including all the Newberry's Novacco holdings, as well as its Ayer Collection holdings, and other maps, and can be searched by author, subject and title. It is called the "Newberry Library Cartographic Catalog: map catalog and bibliography of the history of cartography," and its URL is: [http://www.biblioserver.com/newberry/]. Finally, you should also be aware that the maps which Franco Novacco, a lawyer from Trieste, if my memory serves me well, sold to the Newberry, represent what one could call the "first Novacco collection." After the sale, Mr. Novacco began collecting 16th century Italian maps again, and in 1986 in Milan a book was published, edited by Valeria and Piero Bella, titled Cartografia Rara: Antiche carte geografiche, topografiche e storiche dalla collezione Franco Novacco (163 pp). It contains rather good reproductions of 148 maps from the second Novacco collection. I know nothing of the present disposition of this second Novacco collection. Doug --- On Sun, 12/18/11, Mariarosa CESARI <mrosa.ces...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Mariarosa CESARI <mrosa.ces...@gmail.com> Subject: [MapHist] Newberry Library To: maphist@geo.uu.nl Date: Sunday, December 18, 2011, 11:25 AM This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Dear Maphist, anybody of you is actually employed in the Newberry Library of Chicago which preserves the Franco Novacco Map Collection? I would be very useful for me to have an advise on the library services. Thanks, Mariarosa Cesari _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
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