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THOUGH making no claim to be a complete list of atlases, this work marks a very important step towards a much-needed annotated bibliography of such publications, nothing on a similar scale having ever been attempted before. The collection dealt with is important enough to represent, a large proportion of the whole material in existence, and the information supplied, both in the form of general notes and of complete lists of the maps contained in the more important atlas, will be of great value to students. These lists are of particular service in the case of early works, often found incomplete or broken up into their constituent items, but of great interest from the point of view of the history of geography.
Library of Congress. A list of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, with Bibliographical Notes.
Compiled under the direction of Philip Lee Phillips. Vol. i., Atlases. Pp. xiii + 1208. Vol ii., Author List; Index. Pp. 1209–1659. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909.) Price 2.35 dollars the two vols.
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Library of Congress A list of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, with Bibliographical Notes . Nature 84, 325 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084325a0
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