The only map by Timothy Pont published in his lifetime

The first published map of Lothian and Linlithgo, as surveyed by Timothy Pont, a Scottish clergyman. It is decorated with large cartouches for the title and dedication to James I & VI, a compass rose and two vignette galleons. Unusually for the period, it marks several roads to Edinburgh, Pont's 1595-1608 survey of Scotland made that country the best mapped in the world. However it was not until Blaeu issued the maps as Volume V of his 'Theatrum' in 1654 that the core of his work was published. Robert Gordon, who revised the maps for Blaeu, wrote that Pont 'was defeated by the avarice of printers and booksellers, and could not bring it to a conclusion. While waiting for better times, he was snatched away by premature death'. This map of the environs of Edinburgh is the only map engraved before he died, sometime between 1611 and 1614, aged 50. The Edinburgh bookseller Andrew Hart paid for it to be engraved by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam, just prior to Hondius's death in 1612. Whether it was published at the time is doubtful. It eventually appeared in the Mercator/Hondius atlas in 1630, still with the dedication to James I who had died five years before. This example comes from the second state, post-1633, with the names of Jodocus Hondius & Hart removed and 'Henricus Hondius excudit' in their place.