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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Maps and Charts in the Library of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts 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 Profes sor Ebeling of Hamburg, and were included in the splen did donation, noticed in the Preface, of the liberal, and dis tinguished merchant, the Honorable Israel Thorndike. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.