Lecture II: Geography is better than divinity. The practitioners' story

This is the second of three lectures given on 5,6 and 8 March 2007 as the Sandars lectures for that year at Cambridge University Library. The text is as read at the time, but includes some later revisions and citations to works used within the text. The slides shown are listed in a separate document.Cambridge University Library, Sandars Readership in Bibliograph

Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1968-1978, Map Library

Between 1968 and 1978 the Map Library has acquired a number of important and unusual atlases, maps, and globes dating; from c. 1500 to 1850. Although all acquisitions are entered in the published Map Catalogue and in its subsequent accessions parts, this article provides fuller descriptions of some of the more interesting items acquired which, it is hoped, will reach a wider audience. A second article will complete the listing of notable acquisitions for the period 1968-78