COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Composite: Scotland or North Britain.
Obj Height cm:
126
Obj Width cm:
106
Scale 1:
447,000
Note:
Engraved map printed on 4 sheets. Counties in outline color. Shows classified roads with distances, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Inset map: The islands of Shetland or Zetland laid down on the same scale as the map. Includes distance table. David Rumsey Collection sheets mounted together as 2 sheets. (W 8 30--W 1 00/N 60 50--N 54 35)
Reference:
P4300.
Full Title:
(Composite of) A new and correct map of Scotland or North Britain, with the post and military roads, divisions &ca. Drawn from the most approved surveys, illustrated with many additional improvements, and regulated by the latest astronomical observations by Lieut. Campbell. London, printed for Robt. Sayer, no. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 10 Jany. 1790.
List No:
0411.013
Page No:
8-9
Series No:
15
Pub Date:
1790
Pub Title:
A general atlas, describing the whole universe: being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the latest discoveries. The whole being an improvement of the maps of D'Anville and Robert. Engraved in the best manner on sixty-two copper-plates, by Thomas Kitchin, Senior, and Others. London: printed For Robert Sayer, no. 53, Fleet-Street, (1790).
Pub Reference:
P4300.
Pub Note:
Late issue. Many of the maps are double sheet. This atlas was later expanded to become the New Universal Atlas (see David Rumsey Collection copy). Some of these maps also appeared in the American Atlas by Jefferys. There are actually 23 large maps, on 35 connected sheets, produced from 62 copper plates. Maps are hand painted with outline and full color and bound in half leather tan marbled paper covered boards with "General Atlas" stamped in gold on the spine. Inscription inside front cover in pen-and-ink: R. Sayer pub, 53 Fleet ... 8th, 1791 ...
Pub List No:
0411.000
Pub Maps:
35
Pub Height cm:
55
Pub Width cm:
41
Image No:
0411013
Institution:
Rumsey Collection
Ownership Statement:
Copyright 2005
Publisher Location:
London
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Type:
Atlas Map
Type:
Composite Map
Country:
Scotland
Publication Author:
Kitchin, Thomas
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Author:
Campbell, Robert, Lieutenant
Date:
1790
Composite: Scotland or North Britain.
