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Joan Blaeu Engraved Map from the Atlas of Scotland - Kintyre and the Isle of Gigha

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Joan Blaeu Engraved Map from the Atlas of Scotland - Kintyre and the Isle of Gigha
Joan Blaeu Engraved Map from the Atlas of Scotland - Kintyre and the Isle of Gigha
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BLAEU, Joan (1596-1673).
Cantyra Chersonesus / Cantyr a Demie-yland.
Engraved map with original hand color.
Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1654-1662. [Dutch Text on verso].
20 1/4" x 24 1/2" sheet.

Map of Kintyre and the Isle of Gigha, situated off Glasgow and off the western coast of Isle of Arran.

In 1654 Joan Blaeu applied for a privilege to publish maps and descriptions of Scotland and received privileges from the State of Holland and West Friesland, Oliver Cromwell, and Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III. His source was a series of manuscript maps by Timothy Pont from his survey of 1596 to about 1600 with information added by Robert Gordon.

Ref.: The Early Maps of Scotland to 1850. 3rd. ed. By D. G. Moir and a Committee of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. (Edinburgh, 1973) and Peter van der Krogt, Koeman's Atlantis Neerlandici. New Edition: II, 266-294.

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