New online, more than 100 maps of Great Britain and the wider world added to the Signet Library map collection (1580ss–1950s).
This fine collection of 494 maps, comprises the main sheet maps held by the Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet, Parliament Square Edinburgh. The greater part of the collection – 402 items – relate geographically to Scotland, and date from the late 16th century through to the mid-20th century. Of these, there are 91 county or district maps, 47 plans of towns, with a focus on Edinburgh, 23 estate plans (including 6 in manuscript), 16 coastal charts, and a remaining 9 maps which relate to the whole of Scotland. There are also two Ordnance Survey One-Inch to the mile series of Scotland, the 2nd edition with coloured parishes and a third outline edition (1903-1912).
Non-Scottish maps include 32 maps of England, Wales and Ireland, 20 Ordnance Survey One-Inch Old Series maps, and 43 international maps.
For Canada there’s
- Signet.b.03(1) – Map of Central Canada showing transportation and commercial development / (prepared by Natural Resources Intelligence Service, Dept. of the Interior).
- Signet.b.03(2) – Map of the Dominion of Canada, exclusive of northern regions, indicating main natural resources / prepared by National Development Bureau.
- Signet.b.03(3) – Map of the southern portion of the Dominion of Canada indicating vegetation and forest cover… / (prepared by the Natural Resources Intelligence Service).
- Signet.b.03(4) – Map of the Dominion of Canada, exclusive of northern regions, indicating vegetation and forest cover… / [prepared by] National Development Bureau.
- Signet.b.03(5) – Southern Alberta. Scale 1:792,000…Map showing disposition of lands / [prepared by the] Natural Resources Intelligence Service…
- Signet.b.03(6) – Northern Alberta. Scale 1:792,000…Map showing disposition of lands / [prepared by the] Natural Resources Intelligence Service…
- Signet.b.03(7) – Southern British Columbia showing disposition of lands within the railway belt.
- Signet.b.03(8) – Manitoba. Scale 1:792,000 … map showing disposition of lands / [prepared by the] Natural Resources Intelligence Service …
- Signet.b.03(9) – Map of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta showing the number of vacant quarter sections in each township / prepared by the Natural Resources Intelligence Service.
- Signet.b.03(10) – Map of Nova Scotia indicating natural resources, motor roads and transportation routes … / prepared by the Natural Resources Intelligence Service … 1924.
- Signet.b.03(11) – Saskatchewan. Scale 1:792,000 … Map showing disposition of lands / [prepared by the] Natural Resources Intelligence Service …
- Signet.b.03(12) – Saskatchewan. Scale 1:792,000 … Map showing disposition of lands / [prepared by] Natural Resources Intelligence Service …