Campbell's map of Scotland
By CAMPBELL, Lieutenant [Robert] , 1790
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A New and Correct Map of Scotland or North Britain. with all 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 Lieutenant Campbell.

British Isles Scotland
  • 作者: CAMPBELL, Lieutenant [Robert]
  • 出版地: London,
  • 出版商: Printed for Robert Sayer No. 31 Fleet Street,
  • 发布日期: 1790.
  • 物理描述: Engraved wall map, with contemporary hand-colour in part, laid down on linen in 24 sections
  • 方面: 1210 by 1030mm (47.75 by 40.5 inches).
  • 库存参考: 16491

笔记

This large and detailed map of Scotland is based upon Dorret's of 1750. Several additions and amendments have been made including new roads, and military roads, market towns are marked by a sloping capitals, towns that return a member of Parliament are marked with a star. To the lower left is a table denoting the 'Distances of the Principal Stages on the Graet Roads Leading from Edinburgh.

Lieutenant Robert Campbell (fl1790 - 1825) was an Scottish cartographer and surveyor employed with the British Admiralty, he would go on to produce charts of St. Kilda (1809), African Islands (1811), and Ascension Island (1825). The map was published in Thomas Kitchen's 'A General Atlas, describing the whole universe...', in 1790.

Scale: 14 statute miles to one inch.

参考书目

  1. Moir p.42.
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