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Maps. Cartographic materials.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to graphic or photogrammetric representations of the Earth's surface or a part of it, including physical features and political boundaries, where each point corresponds to a geographical or celestial position according to a definite scale or projection. The term may also refer to similar depictions of other planets, suns, other heavenly bodies, or areas of the heavens. Maps are typically depicted on a flat medium, such as on paper, a wall, or a computer screen.

Found in 680 Collections and/or Records:

Maps of regions of Scotland by John Adair; the 'Adair maps'.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MS.70.2.11 [Map Library]

Maps of the lands of Stow and Stagehall.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7172
Scope and Contents

With a detailed plan of Stow village, by William Hall.

Dates: 1780.

Maps originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1: Manuscript of the English text of the 'Atlas Scoticus, or Description of Scotland ancient and modern' by Sir Robert Sibbald., 1595-[Circa 1682].

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.1a
Scope and Contents List of maps originally inserted in Adv.MS.15.1.1.Folios 6-7. Printed map: ‘Britannicarum insularum typus’ (Abraham Ortelius, 1595).Folios 8-9. Printed map: ‘Insulæ Albion et Hibernia cum minoribus adjacentibus’.Folios 10-11. Printed map: ‘Scotia regnum’.Folios 12-13. Printed map: ‘Scotia regnum cum insulis adjacentibus’ (Robert Gordon of Straloch).Folios 20-21. Printed map: ‘Scotiæ provintiæ inter Taum fluvium et septentrionales...
Dates: 1595-[Circa 1682].

Maps used by Aylmer Haldane during the First World War., 1914, 1916-1919.

 File
Identifier: MS.20258
Scope and Contents

Chiefly maps produced by the Ordnance Survey, together with some maps produced by the army for use in the field. A few are composite, made up from portions of adjacent sheets. Most have a few marks made apparently by Aylmer Haldane in the field.

Dates: 1914, 1916-1919.

`Memoirs, of [Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of] campaigns on the Peninsula from 1st April 1812`., 1812.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23630
Scope and Contents The volume contains an account of the Battle of Salamanca, 22 July 1812, and a detailed description of 42nd Royal Highlanders stationing in Valladolid.Contained at the start of the memoirs is a map of Spain and Portugal highlighting geographical regions, and an engraving of the Duke of Wellington.There are four pages of sketches contained in the volume depicting the native Spaniards and their dress. Included at the back of the volume is a list of the...
Dates: 1812.

`Memoirs of [Captain James Stirling, 42nd Royal Highlanders, of the] campaigns of 1808 in Spain under Lieut General Sir John Moore, and of 1809, in the Islands of Zealand. Holland.`, 1808-1811.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23629
Scope and Contents James Stirling served during the 1808 Spanish campaign under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, culminating in the battle of Coruña, 1809. The memoirs start on 12 August 1808 and end on 23 January 1811 when the army returns to Spithead, England.The memoirs also contain an account of Stirling`s deployment to the Islands of Zeeland, Netherlands, during the Walcheren campaign which begins in June 1809 and ends in 1810 when the 42nd Royal Highlanders were brought home...
Dates: 1808-1811.

Microfilm of Gordon Maps.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.71

Microfilm of sketches, maps, and various other papers of, or concerning, James Augustus Grant., 1850-[1872, or after].

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.557
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Album of sketches, 1860-1863, chiefly watercolour, some pencil or pen and ink, of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke. (MS.17919);Album of sketches, 1860-1863, chiefly watercolour, some pencil or pen and ink, and lithographs of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke (MS.17920);Unmounted sketches, 1860-1863, of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition...
Dates: 1850-[1872, or after].

Military papers of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale as Quartermaster-General to the army in the Spanish Peninsula, including financial papers, ration vouchers and campaign maps., [Circa 1811]-1813.

 File
Identifier: MS.14556
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Accounts, April-July 1812, of Lieutenant Collet Barker, 39th Foot, and Lieutenant Benjamin Hobhouse, 57th Foot, employed on special service (folio 1);

(ii) Ration vouchers, 1812-1813 (folio 29);

(iii) Receipts, 1812, for horse-shoes and nails (folio 174);

(iv) Campaign maps, circa 1812-1813 (folio 198);

(v) Miscellaneous military papers, circa 1811-1813 (folio 214).

Dates: [Circa 1811]-1813.

Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20768
Dates: 16th century-1914, undated.