This response from the Afriterra Free Library (Boston MA) is wider in
coverage than Remezov's Siberia maps, and may be useful to know about.
FH
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Sent: 06 October 2010 14:57
To: Discussion group for map history
Subject: Re: [MapHist] Remezov's Siberian maps digitized by Harvard
To study other examples of the meticulous Harvard imaging work,
there are over 2000 rare maps focused on Africa at:
http://www.afriterra.org Afriterra Free Library
Gerald J. Rizzo
Afriterra Foundation
Boston MA
Tony Campbell wrote:
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> *Remezov's Siberian maps digitized by Harvard*
>
> October 4.
>
>
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/houghton/2010/10/04/early-maps-of-siberia-d
igitized/
>
> 'Early Maps of Siberia Digitized' (by Emilie Hardman for the Houghton
> Library Blogfrom Boston mA).
>
> A post about the recent digitization of the collection of maps by
Semyon
> Ul'yanovich Remezov in the Houghton Library, Harvard University. They
> form part of the Leo Bagrow Collection
> <http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00027>, given to Houghton
> Library by Curt H. Reisinger in 1956. The blog gives the background to
> Remezov's crowning achievement, the /Khorograficheskaya Kniga
> <http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/18273155>/, the cartographical
> sketch-book of Siberia (1696-7).
>
> http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00027
> http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/18273155
> http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:4435676
>
> Tony Campbell
>
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