Old Map of Aberdeen, Inverness, Moray & Angus in 1690 by Valk & Schenk - Dundee, Perth, Fraserburgh, Loch Ness Size:A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED history buff

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Old Map of Aberdeen, Inverness, Moray & Angus in 1690 by Valk & Schenk - Dundee, Perth, Fraserburgh, Loch Ness Size:A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED history buffStretching from the Great Glen to the North Sea coast, this 1690 map takes in a wide cross section of north east Scotland, published by the Amsterdam partnership of Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk, who acquired and reissued a large body of Dutch map plates covering the British Isles toward the end of the seventeenth century. Like other Scottish sheets from this Amsterdam workshop, it draws heavily on cartography assembled decades earlier for Joan