Pick of the week: 'Oldest accurate map of coastal Scotland' becomes auction trailblazer

'La Navigation du Roy d’Ecosse' by the French cartographer Nicolas de Nicolay (1517-83) is said to be the oldest accurate map of coastal Scotland.

Drawn following a voyage James V took to the limits of his dominions in 1540, a copy of the first …

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