If either of you (or other Lis-maps readers) have someone who requires to
consult this atlas - without fighting recoiling and recalcitrant paper! -
there is a (contemporary) bound copy here on our large-format atlas shelves.
As the covers are nearly one quarter of an inch thick the atlas is a weighty
tome in more than one sense.
Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Abbott [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 04 January 2001 10:05
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: One Rolled Atlas
>
> Commiserations. The Atlas of Egypt has the some of most intractable rolled
> maps
> I have encountered. The copy here in Birmingham Central Library has been
> kept
> flat between boards for about 60 years, but the separate sheets still roll
> themselves up when taken out. Prolonged flattening of a couple of sheets
> in a
> heated laminating press has achieved limited success, although even these
> sheets still have a tendency to curl!
>
> Richard Abbott
> Local Studies and History
> Birmingham Central Library
>
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>
> Alison Lawson <[log in to unmask]> on 02/01/2001 13:49:50
>
> Please respond to lis-maps - a forum for issues related to map & spatial
> data
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> cc: (bcc: Richard Abbott/LeisureServices/BCC)
> Subject: One Rolled Atlas
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>
> I have been listening with interest to recent advice about flattening
> rolled maps.
>
> My problem is a rolled atlas - Atlas of Egypt : a series of maps and
> diagrams with descriptive text illustrating the orography, geology,
> meteorology and economic conditions
>
> Presented to the International Geographical Congress at
> Cambridge 1928, by command of his Majesty King Fouad I
>
> Survey of Egypt Giza MCMXXVIII
>
> This atlas seems to have been rolled from its creation. It consists
> of about 40 sheets, which are wider than they are long. Everything
> is attached to a stiff dark red cover.
>
> I try not to touch it at all. It tears so easily. This morning I checked
> the details on the title page. I wish I could see more of the pages
> inside.
>
> A little more information is available on our new Webcat at:
> http://www.library.qmw.ac.uk/catalogues/webcat.htm
>
> A Happy New Year to everybody!
>
> Alison Lawson.
>
> Librarianship, Maps, Information.
> Main Library
> Queen Mary University of London
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