Old Map of the Inner & Outer Hebrides in 1690 by Valk & Schenk - Mull, Skye, Lochaber, Uist, Harris, Barra iconic railway lines Major landmarks

Major landmarks

A must-have for lovers of English history

described as a mixture of cartoon

making it an invaluable resource for maritime historians

Beyond the data lies an era of ocean liners and wooden trawlers

Old Map of the Inner & Outer Hebrides in 1690 by Valk & Schenk - Mull, Skye, Lochaber, Uist, Harris, Barra iconic railway lines Major landmarksAmsterdam, rather than Edinburgh or London, was where much of Scotland's coastline first reached print in reliable detail, and this 1690 map of the Hebrides was issued by the Dutch map publishing partnership of Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk, who acquired and reissued a considerable stock of plates from earlier Dutch workshops. Much of the underlying geography derives from surveys gathered decades earlier by the Scottish laird and cartographer Robert