Printed map. "Publish'd by J. Knox, Septr. 13th. 1782." No scale given. Displays numerous paragraphs of text about the history of Scotland, its size, population and natural products, distances and navigation information. Acquired as part of the Lord Cholmondely collection.
Printed map. Two visual scales [193 mm = 30 English Miles and 1 inch = 4 English Miles]. The imprint: "London. Published June 25th. 1807 by A. Arrowsmith 10 Soho Square" appears twice in the lower margin, suggesting that the map was originally published as separate sheets.
Printed map. Two visual scales [193 mm = 30 English Miles and 1 inch = 4 English Miles]. The imprint: "London. Published June 25th. 1807 by A. Arrowsmith 10 Soho Square" appears twice in the lower margin, suggesting that the map was originally published as separate sheets.
Printed map. Four visual scales [95 mm = 70 Milliaria Anglicana]. Names in Latin with English translations after or under. Hadrian's wall is called "Vallum Severinum". Originally published in: “The Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain” by William Roy (London : Printed by W. Bulmer and co., and sold at the apartments of the Society ..., and by Mssrs. White, Robson, Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, Brown, and Egerton, 1793). Author and source information from Charting the Nation http://www.chartingthenation.lib.ed.ac.uk/ (accessed June 26, 2003). McMaster owns a similar map, in The military antiquities of the Romans in Britain / By the late William Roy ... Published by the order, and at the expence of, the Society of antiquaries of London. (London : Printed by W. Bulmer and co., and sold at the apartments of the Society ..., and by Mssrs. White, Robson, Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, Brown, and Egerton, 1793), McMaster University Research Collections, F49, Plate No. I. The copy in this book has minor variations to imprint: PERVETERUM rather than PER VETERUM, and additional imprint information: á Gmo. Roy London 1774. Acquired as part of the Lord Cholmondely collection.
Printed map. Two visual scales [43 mm=25 "Milliaria Scotica"]. Elaborate cartouche with Scotland coat of arms and text, "Est nobilis ira leonis." Includes inset, "Orcades Insvlae". Two pages of text on verso in Dutch under heading, "Het Koninckrijck Schotlandt." Described in Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. II, Me 48, p. 392-394, map [409], which indicates that the map is from the atlas, Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii, Appendix Atlantis..., published 1637.
Printed map. "Drawn from the best authorities, by Eman. Bowen Geogr. to his late Majy." "Engrav'd for the General Magazine of Arts & Sciences; for W. Owen at Temple Bar 1762." Prime meridian: London. Includes inset: Shetland Islands. Originally published in Benjamin Martin's The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, 14 volumes (London: Printed for W. Owen, 1755-1765). Acquired as part of the Hodsoll Collection.