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Mackenzie (Murdoch). Orcades: or, a Geographic and Hydrographic Survey of the Orkney and Lewis Islands, in Eight Maps ... The third edition, with additional soundings, and some corrections, London: printed for the author, by M. Say, and sold by K. Mackenzie, 1776, [2] 6 pp., 8 engraved large folding maps by Emanuel Bowen after Murdoch Mackenzie (various dimensions: see note) each with title and dedication within separate rococo cartouches (map 1 title within figural cartouche), bar scales, and inset coastal profiles, text and maps all mounted on stubs, title-page with lower margin excised (removing an old inscription, the printed text unaffected), soiling, and short closed tear at lower inner corner, the maps with contemporary manuscript captions in black ink rectos (inside and outside plate-marks) and versos, variable light dust-soiling, browning, and offsetting, early paper-reinforcement along folds verso, maps 1-3 and 7 closely trimmed along at least one edge (to neat line in cases, cropping top neat-line in map 7), map 1 with shallow chip to left-hand edge affecting plate-mark but not neat line and with short closed tear to lower margin, short closed tear to lower inner corner of maps 2 and 6 affecting frame only, map 5 with outer section reattached at an early date with concomitant darkening and disruption to image, map 7 with short (3cm) split to foot of one old fold and a little fraying along close-trimmed top edge, minor paper-disruption and soiling along one fold of map 8 (the fold with old paper-reinforcement verso as noted), a few other marks, nicks and chips, modern red-brown half morocco binding, atlas folio (binding dimensions 62.2 x 42.2 cm) (Qty: 1) THE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Very rare: not in ESTC, which cites only the first edition of 1750, for which six copies are traced. 'Mackenzie set new standards for hydrographic surveying in Britain' (ODNB). The maps are dated 1750 at the foot, indicating that the original plates were used; most are signed by Emanuel Bowen Some of them bear interesting dedications: map 5 is dedicated to 'Alexander Mackenzie of Hampton in Virginia', map 7 to the governor and adventurers of the Hudson's Bay Company. Titles and dimensions are as follows: 1) The Orkney Islands (57.8 x 78 cm). 2) The South Isles of Orkney (60.2 x 67 cm). 3) Pomona or Main-Land (55.5 x 78 cm). 4) The North East Coast of Orkney (68 x 55.2 cm). 5) The North West Coast of Orkney (52.7 x 57 cm). 6) The Lewis, or North Part of Long-Island (58.7 x 65 cm). 7) The North Part of the Lewis (60 x 85 cm). 8) The South East Coast of the Lewis (63 x 60 cm).