Overview The Reverend William Dunbar, D.D., who had been employed as a tutor prior to his ordination in 1807, served as the minister of Applegarth in Dumfries, Scotland until his death aged 82 in 1861. This manuscript geography textbook illustrated with engraved prints (1 time diagram and 5 maps: World, Europe, England, Asia and Africa) suggests that teaching may have been a continuing activity for him. The title page is inscribed "Wm. Dunbar, Applegarth Manse, 1818" in the same hand as the text, so...

Overview This collection contains research papers gathered by Barbara Backus McCorkle, 1977-2000, while compiling the book A Carto-Bibliography of the Maps in Eighteenth-Century English and American Geography Books, published in electronic format on the University of Kansas' platform ScholarWorks in November 2009. The papers include paper printouts of ESTC (English Short-Title Catalog) records for the books listed in the carto-bibliography and two sets of photocopies...