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Very Scarce Two-Sheet Map Of Scotland
TAYLOR, Thomas.
'A New Mapp OF SCOTLAND or NORTH BRITAIN With Considerable Improvements according to the
Newest Observations 1731.' 'Printed and Sold by Tho:s Bowles Print and Map Seller next the Chapter House
in S.t Pauls Church yard and Iohn Bowles Print and Map Seller at the Black Horse in Cornhill London.'
London: Thomas Bowles (II) & John Bowles, 1731 [but ca. 1733]; copperplate engraving, border: 580 x 1001
platemark: - x -mm, on two sheets joined, in original outline colour.
Long horizontal tear from the right hand border to the Northumberland coast restored, one area of paper
loss in the map.
Very scarce copy of Herman Moll's two-sheet map of Scotland, from the 'World Described', published by
Thomas Taylor, a London printseller, working from a shop in Fleet Street, who dabbled in maps.
This map was first published in 1720; after Taylor left business circa 1729, the plates for this map passed to
Thomas (II) and John Bowles, great acquirers of second-hand plates, who republished it dated 1731,
although John's address is given as 'at the Black Horse in Cornhill', where he moved in 1733, which may
imply there was an intermediate printing.
In place of Moll's decorative insets, Taylor inserted an extensive 'Alphabeticall Table of all the CITIES and
Market TOWNS &c. in NORTH BRITAIN or SCOTLAND ...', in the blank areas of the sea. Within the map,
Taylor shows the roads of Scotland as straight-lines, marking the distances between the towns.
As Taylor's stock was not large enough to compose atlases, this map is appreciably rarer than Moll's original.
Although the map can be found in the British Library, National Library of Scotland and at the Bodleian and
Cambridge, it is rare in the trade.
Moir: Early Maps Of Scotland, I, p.181: 1720, notes.
£3,000
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