L'Escosse delà le Tay : divisée en toutes ses provinces : tirées des cartes particulieres de Timot. Pont, de R. Gordon a Straloch etc. /
Sanson, Nicolas,1600-1667
Pont, Timothy,1560?-1614?
Gordon, Robert,1580-1661.
Paris : chez le Sr. Robert,
1741.
Map showing Scotland from the River Tay northwards, with county boundaries.
First appeared in Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville's "Cartes generales de toutes les parties du monde", Pierre Mariette, Paris, 1665, but based on Timothy Pont's and Robert Gordon's maps in "Geographiae Blavianae", Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1662.
In top right hand corner: ornate cartouche with title, attribution to Timothy Pont & Robert Gordon, author's name, date and publisher.
In bottom left hand corner: 4 equal-length scale bars labelled "Echelle".
Scale statements read: "Mille Pas Geom.", with scale bar graded 0-30; "Milles d'Angleterre", with scale bar graded 0-24; "Milles d'Escosse", with scale bar graded 0-21; "Lieues Communes de France", with scale bar graded 0-12.
Relief shown pictorially.
Features include: rivers, lochs, settlements; county boundaries coloured, towns picked out in red.
Moir, D.G., "The early maps of Scotland",
Shows Scotland from the River Tay northwards, with county boundaries.