Non-Supplement Map Indices

[George Thomas Wilson]

I have just acquired my second Non-Supplement Map and Index to add to my collection.  This one is titled "Lands of the Bible Today".  The map is dated 1963 while the index is copyrighted 1962.  The map is a revision of the 1956 map supplement that incidentally was also indexed.

As you can see in the map title below, the map is dated simply 1963 and not January 1963 as per Nathan in his collectors guide.

Comparing this map to the 1956 map, it is obvious that the same map was used and augmented.  This is in contrast to my first Non-Supplement Map and Index: the 1960 Soviet Union map and 1961 index.

By comparing this map to the 1944 USSR map it is obvious that this is not a revision.  They have different sizes, borders, and layouts.

Nathan documents three other Non-Supplement map indices (all revisions of supplement maps):

1967 World (original 1965)

1978 World (original 1975)

1980 USA (original 1976)

These were not included in Mike Christie's XYZ web site due to lack of corroborative evidence.  I'd like to think that they exist, but I am an optimist.

I know for a fact there are other Non-Supplement map indices out there.  Another of our members, Dale, has two of them and knows of eight others from a list by Bill Cole (see the discussion Post-Nathan Map Indexes).  In that discussion, Dale and I have a friendly disagreement as to whether his map indices are revisions or reprints.  His Non-Supplement map indices are:

1958 Central Europe, Including the Balkan States (original 1951)

1968 Classical Lands of the Mediterranean (original 1949)

Nathan documented many more revisions to maps many of which were indexed (see attached list).  I do not know if any of the revisions on the list were indexed but I am hopeful that, at least some are and that I might, one day, find one or more.

Tom Wilson

[Scott T. Shier]

I saw (and was watching) this Bible Lands Index last week....Congrats. Honestly, I wasn't watching it close enough, because I didn't note that it was one of the non-NGM issued variety. 

The one in particular that I would want to get sometime is the 1960 Soviet map and index, because I find that interesting and "important" for the time it came out. Just haven't prioritized it...yet. Wouldn't mind the 1980 world map/index set either...