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Dear Douglas,
thanks to you for the useful information concerning in particular the
existence of the catalogue of the Franco Novacco Collection in the form
of microfilm.
Merry Christmas,
Mariarosa
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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
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From: Mariarosa CESARI <[email protected]>
Subject: [MapHist] Newberry Library
To: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, December 18, 2011, 11:25 AM
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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
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