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Maps. Cartographic materials.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to graphic or photogrammetric representations of the Earth's surface or a part of it, including physical features and political boundaries, where each point corresponds to a geographical or celestial position according to a definite scale or projection. The term may also refer to similar depictions of other planets, suns, other heavenly bodies, or areas of the heavens. Maps are typically depicted on a flat medium, such as on paper, a wall, or a computer screen.

Found in 680 Collections and/or Records:

A small map of Eskdale and Liddesdale., [?1636-?1652.]

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 64)
Dates: [?1636-?1652.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscript maps of Robert and James Gordon, and with three of Timothy Pont.

[A translation of the title [and] other particulars belonging to the adjoined map Adv.MS.46.10.1(55), 'Carta Militar da Parte do Reino de Portugal...'], Circa 1811.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(56)
Scope and Contents

Letterpress.

Dates: Circa 1811.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray. / Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed. / Collection of maps.

'Aberdeen, Banf [sic], Murrey [sic] [Etc.] to Inverness : [and] Fra the north water to Ross / Robertus Gordonius a Strathloch describebat 1640.' , [?1636-?1652.]

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 25)
Dates: [?1636-?1652.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscript maps of Robert and James Gordon, and with three of Timothy Pont.

Abernethy [and] ye draught of Spey...all Straspay in Mappe...Auymoir., [?1583-?1596]

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.9(6)
Dates: [?1583-?1596]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Maps of Scotland by Timothy Pont - the 'Pont maps'.

Account of the captivity of Alexander Scott in the Sahara between 1810 and 1816 after having been shipwrecked on the African coast opposite the Canary Islands as set down by Professor Thomas Stewart Traill and William Lawson from conversations with Scott., [1816, or after.]

 File
Identifier: MS.19390
Scope and Contents

This detailed account of Alexander Scott's life with nomadic Arabs provides a wealth of sociological and geographical information. Includes a map and geographical appendix by the geographer, James Rennell, and related correspondence.

Dates: [1816, or after.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family. / Literary papers chiefly of Professor Thomas Stewart Traill.

Account, with plan, of the division of Langton Common and Langton Moor.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5318
Dates: 1769.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Afbeeldingh van de Zype... Jan Dirckss Zoutman. 1665., 1665.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(132)
Scope and Contents

MS note Jas P Murray Aid de Camp Lt Gen… Pultenby [?] 1799. Coloured map.

Dates: Other: 1665.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray. / Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed. / Collection of maps.

Alexander Nimmo`s copy of his account of the survey made by him in the summer of 1806 of the northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Inverness-shire, which he undertook on Telford`s recommendation, whilst rector of Inverness Academy, for the parliamentary commission appointed to fix the county boundaries of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.20
Scope and Contents The copy is in Nimmo’s own hand, written up in the form of a journal, from the notes which he took in his pocket-book whilst engaged upon the survey. It is written on the rectos of the leaves, the versos being left for maps (folios 11 verso, 12 verso), notes, bearings, and additions to the text. It appears to be incomplete, for it ends rather abruptly (folio 50). It is followed by an explanatory letter to John Rickman, who at the time was secretary to the commissions for making roads and...
Dates: 1806.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

An outline map of the Firth of Tay and the coast to Fife-ness., [?1636-?1652.]

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 46)
Dates: [?1636-?1652.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscript maps of Robert and James Gordon, and with three of Timothy Pont.

An outline map of the Tay estuary round Fife Ness and on to Kirkcaldy., [?1636-?1652.]

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 47)
Dates: [?1636-?1652.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscript maps of Robert and James Gordon, and with three of Timothy Pont.

'Anguss [sic] / R.G.', [?1636-?1652.]

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 41)
Dates: [?1636-?1652.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscript maps of Robert and James Gordon, and with three of Timothy Pont.

Annotated photocopy, 1989, of xerox copy of map of Orkney in 1931, in two parts.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9965
Scope and Contents

Annotations by Peter MacDonald indicate World War II military installations, together with explanatory correspondence, 1989.

Dates: 1931-1989.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Anonymous description of a proposed route from Port Patrick, Wigtonshire, to Edinburgh for Sir Edward Baker, formely Littlehales, 1st Baronet of Ashcombe, Surrey, with maps and mileage tables.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17958
Scope and Contents

This is a carefully planned tour. The writer states his reasons for the selection of the route and for rejecting the alternatives, and comments on the history and contemporary situations of the major settlements en route.

Dates: 1819.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Another copy of [Map of the area about Denain, Bouchain-Prouvy, Abson-Noyelles]. [Signed] Alex Thomson, Capt. Royal Engineers. Oct. 13th, 1816; with ms notes, dated Oct. 22, 1816., 1816.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(118)
Scope and Contents

Scale 4 inch to 1 mile

Dates: Other: 1816.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray. / Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed. / Collection of maps.

Another copy of [Map of the area about Denain]. October 22, 1816., 1816.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(120)
Scope and Contents

Scale 3 inches to 1 mile

Dates: Other: 1816.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray. / Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed. / Collection of maps.

Architectural plans and drawings of the Elliot family of Minto., 1783-1905.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13456-13469
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703. Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates: 1783-1905.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto. / Maps, plans and architectural drawings of the Elliot family of Minto.

'Athol ... and Renna...' ; 'Atholl Rennach wt. all the bordering waists'. , [?1636-?1652.]

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 40)
Scope and Contents

Part of this area is described in the Pont texts: page 134, and page 144.

Dates: [?1636-?1652.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscript maps of Robert and James Gordon, and with three of Timothy Pont.

Atlas of plans, 1813, of Ulva, Gometra and Little Colonsay.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9442
Scope and Contents

Includes other plans, undated.

Dates: 1813 and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Atlas of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9374
Scope and Contents

A volume of county maps outlined in colour, with decorative cartouches in pen and wash. They are preceded by an index (folio i) and a map of the whole of Scotland showing the counties. The maps are based on ‘A general map of Scotland and Islands’ by James Dorret. They include a number of estates and the sites of several battles. The paper has the shield watermark with GR appendage used by James Whatman the younger from about 1762.

Dates: 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

'Barony of Ranfrew'., [?1636-?1652.]

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 55)
Dates: [?1636-?1652.]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscript maps of Robert and James Gordon, and with three of Timothy Pont.

Battle of Albuera May 16th 1811. W Warrington, 15 March 1820., 1820.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(65)
Scope and Contents

Ms note "Forwarded by Warrington 17/3/20".

Dates: 1820.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray. / Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed. / Collection of maps.

Battle of San Marcial fought on the 31st of August 1813. London: J Wyld., 1813.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(87)
Scope and Contents

"On zinc by by H.C. Maguire from a drawing by Major Sir T.L. Mitchell, Kt."

Dates: 1813.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray. / Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed. / Collection of maps.

Battle of Vimiero fought on the 21st of August 1808. J Wyld. London., 1808.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.1(43)
Scope and Contents

"Printed by Day [and] Haghe, Lithographers to the Queen…".

Dates: 1808.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray. / Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed. / Collection of maps.

Battles and sieges of the War of Liberation (1813). [Small plans of towns fought over or besieged 1813, pasted into scrapbook]. , 1813

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.46.10.2(144)
Scope and Contents

1: Luneburg, Czenstochau, Thorn, Dannigkow, Spandau, Gr Gorschen, Bantzen, Haynau, Hoyerswerda, Luckau, Lowenberg, Goldberg, Gr 2: Beeren, Katzback, Dresden, Hegelsberg, Plagwitz, Kulm, Dennewitz, An der Gohrde, Wartenburg, Dohna, Liebertwolkwitz, Lindenau, Mockern, Wachau, Dresden, Leipzig, Freiburg, Hanau, Schonebeck, Hockheim, Modlin, Dresden, Zamosk, Stettin, Doestburg, Zutphen. 3: Arnheim, Zara, Breda, Gertrundenburg, Friedrichsort, Danzig, Torgau.

Dates: Other: 1813
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of General Sir George Murray. / Collection of maps (several in duplicate), approximately two-fifths manuscript, the remainder printed. / Collection of maps.

Both ye sides of Dee fra Kinkairn to Aberdeen., [?1583-?1596]

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.9(11)
Dates: [?1583-?1596]
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Maps of Scotland by Timothy Pont - the 'Pont maps'.

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