CATALOGUE OF THE MAPS AND CHARTS 1N THE LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. Εἰρύονται Κύρβιας, οἷς ἔνι πᾶσαι ὅδοι καὶ πείρατ ̓ ἔασιν CAMBRIDGE: E. W. METCALF AND COMPANY, Printers to the University. 1831. "With care they still recording tablets keep Fawkes's Apoll. Rhod. ADVERTISEMENT. THE public is here presented with a Catalogue of the Maps and Charts belonging to the University, exclusive of those which are to be found in books. Comprising, as it does, the productions of all who have been most eminent in geographical delineations since the revival of letters, it will be regarded as not the least valuable part of the general Catalogue of the Library. Nearly all of them were formerly the property of the celebrated Professor Ebeling of Hamburg, and were included in the splendid donation, noticed in the Preface, of the liberal and distinguished merchant, the Honorable Israel Thorndike. That remarkable collection which is believed to be altogether unique, was the work of many years; and appears, by the following title of the manuscript Catalogue which came with it, to have been undertaken by Dr. Brandes, and continued by Professor Ebeling: "Catalogus Mapparum Geographicarum, séparatim collectarum a Dre G. F. Brandes, Regi M. Britanniæ et Electori Brunsvicensi a Consiliis Aulicis, Hanoveræ anno 1792 defuncto. Collectionem continuavit, supplevit, auxit C. D. Ebeling, Professor Hamburg." Soon after Professor Ebeling's decease, which took place in 1817, his American Library, with all his Maps and Charts, were purchased by Col. Thorndike's agent in Germany, for the noble purpose to which they were applied. While the Maps and Charts were a most valuable accession to its means of geographical information, the books |