This beautifully engraved hand coloured
original map of Kintyre Peninsula, Scotland was published in the 1657 Spanish
edition of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Novus.
When the Blaeu's published
Volume five of his Atlas Novus in 1654, Scotland became one of the best-mapped
countries in the world. The volume contained forty-eight plates showing
forty-nine separate maps of Scotland (plus a map of Ptolemy British Isles and
six maps of Ireland). The first two plates from the atlas show the entire
country ancient and modern, whilst the remaining forty-six plates cover most
Scotland in forty-seven regional maps. In total the regional maps locate some
20,000 different place names. A clue as to the reason for this extraordinary
explosion of geographical information is to be found on thirty-six of the
regional maps, which all carry engraved credits to Timothy Pont (1524-1606)
Pont was responsible for surveying the greater part of Scotland between
1583-1600, the resulting Pont Manuscript maps were never published but were put
to good use some fifty to seventy years later by Robert Gordon and Joan Blaeu.
(Ref: Koeman; Tooley; M&B)
General Description:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy
Paper color: - White
Age of map color: - Original
Colors used: - Yellow, pink, red, blue, green
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: - 24in x 20 1/2in (610mm x 520mm)
Plate size: - 20in x 16 1/2in (510mm x 420mm)
Margins: - Min 1in (25mm)
Imperfections:
Margins: - Light dis-colouration
Plate area: - Very light soiling and creasing
Verso: - None
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