. Scottish Geographical Magazine. d cartes de Grande-bretagne imprimé à la charge à partir de 1546 par AntonioLeferi, la première imprimante (après la Grande-Bretagne Ptolemys de 1478) de cartes des thiscountry, nous trouvons, comme on pouvait s'y attendre, que Leslie a obtenu sa carte ofScotland d'un d'Angleterre par ce célèbre cartographe à Lomé, wherehis livre était en cours d'impression. À la Scott de Largs vente, une copie de la première impression (après Ptolémée) et très rare carte des îles Britanniques, byGastaldi datée 1546 Rome, taille 30x22 cm, vendu pour £26 (seemap, p. 300). John Leslie est né en 1527, est devenu évêque de Ross, et a été conseiller et afriend

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. Scottish geographical magazine. d maps of Great Britain printed at Borne from 1546 by AntonioLeferi, the first printer (after Ptolemys Britain of 1478) of maps of thiscountry, we find, as might be expected, that Leslie got his map ofScotland from one of Britain by this famous map-maker in Lome, wherehis book was being printed. At the Scott of Largs sale, a copy of thefirst printed (after Ptolemy) and very rare map of the British Isles byGastaldi, dated Rome 1546, size 30x22 inches, sold for £26 (seemap, p. 300). John Leslie was born in 15 27, became Bishop of Ross, and was afriend and adviser of Queen Mary, with the result that he was compelledto go to the Continent, where he died 1596. Scotland, by Nicolay DArfeville and Alexander Lyndsay, Paris, 1583.This map is from a very rare little book published in French, atParis, in 1583. The work is the log-book of the voyage of James V.round his kingdom of Scotland in 1540. 300 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. The book in the original is a small quarto of 37 double pages, . Map of Scotland, printed 1556 from a Map named BRITANNIA • INSULA • QUAE • DUO •HEiNA • CONTINhNT • ANULIAM • ET • SCO-TIAM • CUM ? HIBF.KNIA ? ADIACENTE • By Jacopo GastaldL Published by Antonio Leferi at Rome from 1546.Map measures 20 x 14 inches. and the reprint is a small octavo; copies of the first edition have been THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAP OF SCOTLAND. 301 sold at sales from £4 7 to £140, and at the Scott of Largs sale a copywas sold for £22. Alexander Lyndsay, tailed excellent Scotch pilot, was the navi-gator who gathered the informationwhich helped most map-makers from1540. This map was brought out by XicolayDArfeville, cosmographer to the Kingof France in 1583, forty-three yearsafter the voyage; it is well to mentionthat this Frenchman was not with Jamesv. on his voyage, and that the map wascompiled from information supplied bythe Scotch navigator. John Adair, in 1688, at Edinburgh, engraved and republished this map. Gou

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