Atlases
A brief list of our main atlases - bound volumes of maps relating to Scotland and the World. We have yet to scan most of our atlases.
Atlases of Scotland
Including maps of counties in Scotland, Scotland's first road atlas, an archaeological atlas of Roman sites in Scotland, and general atlases of the country:
- Joan Blaeu's 'Atlas of Scotland' - Theatrum orbis terrarum sive Atlas Novus, vol. V, 1654
- John Adair's Description of the Sea Coast and Islands of Scotland, 1703
- Herman Moll's Scotland delineated; : or Thirty six new and correct maps of North Britain, 1745
- George Taylor and Andrew Skinner's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland, 1776
- William Roy's Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain, 1793
- John Thomson's Atlas of Scotland, 1832
- John Murray and Laurence Pullar's Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909
- John George Bartholomew's Survey Atlas of Scotland, 1912
Atlases of the World
Including atlases of the Classical world based on Ptolemy, and atlases of the contemporary world from the 16th to the 20th centuries: