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[Miniature Map of northern Scotland]
Petrus Bertius.
Scotia Septentrion.
Amsterdam, 1616. 100 x 135mm. Coloured. Worm hole in wide margin.
Scotland north of Montrose, after Mercator, published in an edition of Camden's 'Britannia'.
BERT0022 |
£140 |
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[The First Issue of Jansson's Map of Scotland]
Johannes Jansson.
Scotia Regnum.
Amsterdam, 1636, German text edition 390 x 505mm. Coloured. Small repair to centrefold verso.
Decorative map of Scotland with two large cartouches and an inset of the Orkneys. The first issue of this map: the English edition of the same year used the old Mercator map.
JANS0046 |
£980 |
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[Early map of northern Scotland.]
Tomaso Porcacchi.
Isle Hebride et Orcade.
Padua, Lasor à Varea, 1713. 110 x 150mm, set in a page of text. Coloured.
Northern Scotland, engraved by Girolamo Porro for Porcacchi's 'Isole del Mondo', 1572. The islands are shown far larger than they should be and tightly packed.
PORC0009 |
£225 |
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[Map of Southern Scotland]
Robert Morden.
A New Map of the South of Scotland.
London, 1722. 360 x 460mm. Coloured.
Scotland south of Inverness, divided into counties. Drawn and engraved by Andrew Johnston.
MORD0034 |
£150 |
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[Map of Scotland with allegorical cartouches]
Johann Baptist Homann.
Magnæ Britanniae Pars Septentrionalis qua Regnum Scotiæ...
Nuremberg, c.1730. 570 x 485mm. Original colour. Slight creasing.
Scotland in bright original colour, with allegorical cartouches for the title and scale, both in full colour..
HOMA0029 |
£425 |
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[Map of Scotland]
Antonio Zatta.
La Regno di Scozia...
Venice, 1776. 310 x 410mm. Original colour.
Scotland, with a vignette title cartouche and a scroll-line inset of the Shetlands, published by Zatta in his 'Atlante Veneto'.
ZATT0073 |
£225 |
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[Large Scotland]
Reilly, Franz von.
Karte von Scotland.
Vienna, 1795. 480 x 660. Original colour. Some damp staining, mainly in margins.
Large map of Scotland, with an inset of the Orkeys and Shetlands.
REIL0005 |
£225 |
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[Two-Sheet Map of Scotland]
Antonio Zatta.
La Scozia Settentrionale...; La Scozia Meridionale...
Venice, 1795. Two plates, each c.320 x 420mm. Original colour.
Two sheet map Scotland, each with a vignette title cartouche, published by Zatta in his 'Atlante Veneto'.
ZATT0072 |
£400 |
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[A Turner Landscape of the River Clyde.]
J.M.W. Turner,
Clyde. In the Possession of J.M.W.Turner.
London, Charles Turner, 1809. Mezzotint & etching, printed in sepia. 205 x 275mm. Laid on card.
Women bathing under a waterfall on the Clyde, the river that flows through Glasgow, Scotland's most important maritime city. Published in Turner's 'Liber Studorum', a collection of views by the English master of landscape, with plates engraved by Charles Turner (no relation).
TURN0002 |
£225 |
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[Dumbarton according to the Reform Act.]
R.K. Dawson.
Dumbarton.
London, 1832. 310 x 290mm. Original colour. Slight print offset.
A ward map of Cambridge according to the Reform Act of 1832.
DAWS0002 |
£49 |
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[Fine Vüe d'Optique of Edinburgh Castle]
Basset.
Vue du Château d'Édimbourg.
Paris, Basset, c.1770. 300 x 430mm. Original hand colour.
A view looking up at Edinburgh Castle from the streets of the city. Vüe d'optiques were designed to be looked at through an optical viewer called a zograscope, which reversed the image. This accounts for the title engraved backwards above the image.
BASS0001 |
£255 |
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[Brandt view of Edinburgh]
J. Brandt.
Edinburgh.
Leipzig: G. Schubert, c.1860. Lithograph, printed area 305 x 405mm.
View of Edinburgh from near Arthur's Seat.
BRAN0001 |
£195 |
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[Edinburgh]
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
The Environs of Edinburgh.
London, SDUK, 1838. Steel engraving, printed area 340 x 410mm. Original colour.
Map of environs of Edinburgh
SDUK0017 |
£45 |
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[View of Glasgow]
Thomas Kelley.
Glasgow.
London, Kelly, 1817. 195 x 240mm.
View of the city from across the Clyde River.
KELL0003 |
£65 |
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[Timothy Pont's map of the Hebrides]
Johannes Blaeu.
Æbudæ Insulæ Sive Hebrides; Quæ Scotiæ ad occasum prætenduntur, lustratæ et descriptæ a Timotheo Pont. The Western Iles of Scotland.
Amsterdam, 1654, 390 x 540mm. Coloured.
Shows western Scotland from Kintyre to Rosshire, with the islands of Islay, Jura, Mull, Skye, Uist and Lewis. One of the first detailed maps of the Hebrides.
BLAE0104 |
£450 |
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