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Mercator's Nuevo Atlas de los Reynos de Escocia e Irlanda (1662)
Blauer’s Atlas novus, which incorporates Mercator's cylindrical projection, condenses the astounding evolution that cartography had gone through since the earliest printed Ptolemee. Surely, the ornamentation in the representation of this region of…
Hector Boece's Scotorum historiae (1575). Ff. 285v-286r
This History of the Scottish people by Hector Boece, which reconstructs the political and ecclesiastical history of Scotland up to 1438, was one of the first to be published. It was read all over Europe, including Spain, with great success. The note…
Thomas Smith's Respublica, sive status Regni Scottiae et Hiberniae (1627). Frontispice
Compilation of histories and descriptions of ancient Scotland and Ireland, written by sixteenth-century English and Scottish antiquaries, published in miniature by Elzevier in his collection of petites républiques. The expurgatory note, which…