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Publication Formats > Pictorial Work > Map
Publication Components > Book Illustrations > Map

Preferred term

Map  

Type

  • Publication Type

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Entry terms

  • Maps

Note

  • This heading is used as a Publication Type. Use for geographic atlases. Do not also use the publication type ATLASES. Maps as a subject are indexed under the main heading MAPS AS TOPIC. INDEXER: Do not use

Scope note

  • Works consisting of representations, normally to scale and on a flat medium, of a selection of material or abstract features on the surface of the earth. They may be used also in delineating the heavens and celestial bodies. (From Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2d ed, p619)

History note

  • 2008 (1997)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019532

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