Collecting Antique Maps - A Small Scotland c1831

The wonderful thing about these smaller antique maps is its a good place to start if you're not sure about how you want to move forward with a collection. You can pick up many of these maps very cheaply online. Also they are perfect for the inexpensive gift idea. Obviously even though small the rare items will demand a higher price however its an area where many new collectors can get a foothold.

Above: MAP OF SCOTLAND SOUTH PART Pl.2 By Sidney Hall c1831. From A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain & Ireland by John Gorton 1833. Published by Chapman & Hall, No 186 Strand Dec 1st 1831.

Sidney Hall (1788?–1831) was a British engraver and cartographer well known and popular for his early nineteenth century atlases containing maps of the United Kingdom and of the ancient world reproduced from Hall's engravings. Hall made engravings for a number of international atlases at a time when cartography and atlases were very popular.

​John Gorton was an English writer, known as a compiler of reference works. His works include: A translation of Voltaire's Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1824; A General Biographical Dictionary, new edition, with a supplement by Cyrus Redding, bringing the work as far as 1850, in 4 vols. More info on Scotland by Sidney Hall.

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