Lot 123
Scotland
Collection of maps & prints, 17th & 18th centuries
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
5 hand-coloured engraved maps of Scotland, framed and glazed, taken from the 1654 Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, based on Timothy Pont's 16th-century manuscript maps, showing lochs, rivers and tributaries, settlements and estates:
[ 2 copies] Glottiana Praefectura Superior … The Upper Ward of Clyds-dayl. [Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1654]. Map of Upper Clydesdale, first copy (56.8 x 68cm, mount aperture 40.5 x 54.5cm), central fold in sheet has been repaired on back, some soiling around the edges, second copy (55 x 67 cm), some creasing and browning;
Tvedia cum vicecomitatu Etterico Forestae, etiam Selkirkae dictus, Twee-dail with the Sherifdome of Ettrik-Forrest [sic] called also Selkirk. [Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1654]. Map of Tweeddale and the Ettrick Forest (51.5 x 59.8cm), some minor soiling and discolouration;
Mercia, Vulgo vicecomitatus, Bervicensis … Merce, or, Shirrefdome of Berwick. [Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1654]. Map of Berwickshire (49.5 x 59.5cm) mounted on paper, some browning;
Nithia Vicecomitatus. The Shirifdome of Nidis-dail. [Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1654]. Map of Nithsdale (58 x 73cm, mount aperture 41 x 55cm), some browning and minor spotting;
Keulen, Johannes van. Pascaert vande Westkust van Schotlant, als mede een gedeelte van de Lewys Eylanden. Amsterdam: van Keulen, [1712]. Hand-coloured engraved map (65 x 71cm, mount aperture 50.5 x 57.5cm), framed and glazed, of North West Coast of Scotland, showing Lewis, St. Kilda, North Rona, minor staining and browning;
[Slezer, John]. The Prospect of the Town of Sterling from the East. [London, 1693]. Engraved print of Stirling, one of the plates from Slezer's 'Theatrum Scotiae,' framed and glazed (43.5 x 58.8cm, mount aperture 28.5 x 43.5);
[Slezer, John]. Bogen-gicht: being the seat of His Grace the Duke of Gordon near Aberdeen. [London, 1719?]. Engraved print of Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, wrongly named as Bogengicht [Bog of Gicht], the seat of the Duke of Gordon, one of the plates used in two later editions of Theatrum Scotiae (1719 and 1728/29), framed and glazed (45 x 62cm) (8)