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Rare Broadsheet Of The Roads In The Highlands During
The '45 Rising
WILLDEY, Thomas.
'A Map of the KING'S ROADS, Made by his Excellency
GENERAL WADE in the HIGHLANDS of SCOTLAND;
from Sterling to Inverness, with the Adjacent Countries &c.'
'T. Kitchin sculp.' 'To his Excellency Henry Hawley, Esq.r
Lieu.t General and Commander in Chief of his Majesties Forces
in Scotland &c. This PLATE is humbly Dedicated by His Most
humble Serv.t Tho.s Willdey.' 'Publish'd according to Act of
Parliam.t Jan.y 4.th 1746. By [erasure].'
London: [Thomas Jefferys Sr. ?], Jany. 4th. 1746 [but ca. 1749];
copperplate engraving, border: 456 x 382 widest: 461 x 382
platemark: 472 x 396mm, in black and white.
The paper a little creased, with one restored tear in the margin,
but a good example.
Broadsheet map of the roads through the Scottish Highlands
built by General Wade after the Jacobite Rising of 1719.
After abandoning the march on London, the Jacobite Army
had retired to the Highlands to besiege Stirling Castle. While the Jacobite Army was pretty mobile, the
Hanoverian Army, with its baggage and artillery train, depended on the roads to pursue the Highlanders.
The map is dedicated to Henry 'Hangman' Hawley, the Royal Commander in Scotland, who was soundly
defeated by the Jacobites at the Battle of Falkirk, a fortnight after this map was first published. This example
is the second state of the map, with the original publishers' names erased from the imprint, leaving only the
date. The Battle of Culloden is now marked in the map, with the lines of battle of the opposing forces.
Hodson: County Atlases, I, 184, notes, referring to an example in the National Library of Wales.
£3,500
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Scarce Plan Of Aberdeen During The '45 Rising
PATERSON, G. & W.
'A SURVEY of OLD & NEW ABERDEEN, with
y.e Adjacent Country between y.e Rivers DEE
and DON. Inscrib'd to y.e R.t Hono.ble D. FORBES
Esq. L.d President of y.e Sessions in SCOTLAND.
By G. & W. Paterson. Sold by J. Millan Bookseller
next Scotland Yard Whitehall 1746.'
'Printed according to y.e Act Jan.y 20. 1746,
for J. Millan next Scotland Yard Whitehall. Price
1.s 6.d Plain. 2.s Colour'd. Navy & Army
Establishment 13.s Mathews & Lestocks Tracts
9.s 6.d Plans Sea Fights 10.s 6.d Kanes Campaigns
& Discipline, Cuts 6.s I. Jones's Designs 10.s 6.d
Gothic Architecture 15.s'
London: John Millan, Jan 20th. 1746 [but later ?];
copperplate engraving, border: 361 x 446 widest: 364 x 446 platemark: 367 x 453m, in black and white.
Minor staining affecting the top left corner, otherwise a good example.
Rare broadsheet plan of Aberdeen, published during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-1746. During the rising,
Aberdeen was held by Lord Lewis Gordon, who busied raising both men and money for the Jacobite cause.
The Hanoverian commander in Scotland sent a force of clansmen to attack Aberdeen. The two armies met
at Inverurie (marked 'Inverury' on the inset map) to the north of Aberdeen, on 23rd December 1745.
The Jacobites won the day, driving off the Hanoverians, the battle taking place just a month before this
detailed plan was published.
COPAC records two examples of the map. The British Library example is in the King's Topographical Collection,
bound with a manuscript version. The National Library of Scotland's example is bound in volume 5 of 'Bibliotheca
Topographica Britannica', 1790. It seems likely that this example, which was folded once into a book, is a later printing
also. £1,800
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