Scozia.
L'Isle, Guillaume de,1675-1726.
Albrizzi, Girolamo,active 1673-1697.
[Venezia : G. Albrizzi,
1750]
Relief shown pictorially.
Shows rivers, lochs (shaded), woods, settlements (with and without churches), place names, territorial boundaries (single dotted lines) and the border Scotland-England.
Scale statements read "Leghe Comuni di Germania 15 in un grado", with scale bar graded [0]-10; "Leghe Comuni di Scozia 50 in un grado", with scale bar graded [0]-34; "Leghe di Francia. Ore di Cammino 20 in un grado", with scale bar graded [0]-14.
Borders filled in with graduations of longitude and latitude.
Decoration: at top left corner, two mermaids sitting on the beach hold a piece of cloth where the title is inscribed, they are surrounded by shells, birds, seaweed etc.; on the top right corner, a view of a beach; the coasts are shaded outwards; includes a very simple compass rose on the right hand side.
This map is based on Visscher's map but has fewer place names.
Map first issued in "Atlante Novissimo" by Girolamo Albrizzi, Venice, ca. 1720 : this map originally in the ca. 1750 edition.
Scale taken from Moir's description; map measurements and imprint from National Library of Scotland old card catalogue.
Moir, D.G., "Early maps of Scotland to 1850", 3rd. ed.
Koeman, C., "Atlantes Neerlandici".
Shows Scotland including the Hebrides and Orkney islands; also part of England and northern Ireland.
Held at National Library of Scotland