... with the mapping survey of Timothy Pont (a minister in Caithness but also an enthusiastic map maker). The maps were not published in his lifetime (he died before 1615) but then taken up in the 1630s by Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580‐1661) and Sir John Scot of Scotstarvit in Fife (who held several important...

...Paul Rolfe Paul Robert   Magocsi . Historical Atlas of Central Europe: From the Early Fifth Century to the Present . London : Thames and Hudson   2002 . xiv + 274 pp. , ISBN: 0 500 28355 9   £24.95 Revised and expanded edition Maps History Central Europe...

...Stuart James Ian C.   Cunningham (Ed.) . The Nation Survey’d: Essays on Late Sixteenth‐Century Scotland as Depicted by Timothy Pont . East Linton : Tuckwell Press   2001 . xviii+172 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 1 86232 198 1 (paperback)   £20.00 (paperback) Maps Scotland...

...Pete Walker Maps Libraries Edited by R.B.   Parry and C.R.   Perkins . The Map Library in the New Millennium . London : Library Association Publishing   2001 . 288 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 1 85604 397 5   £55.00 In today’s technological world, the nature of map...

...Stuart James All these aspects are discussed directly and immediately in the fascinating introduction to a book which, intended as a single‐volume introductory account of English maps, adopts “the revisionist perspectives of the ‘new’ history of cartography” and examines not just the antiquarian...