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[This message is copied from my posting of 1 minute ago to Lis-maps] Francis Herbert -----Original Message----- From: Francis Herbert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 28 April 2011 15:42 To: 'A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship' Subject: Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832): civil engineer, surveyor, geologist: new (2011) book Alexander Nimmos Inverness survey & journal, 1806 / edited by Noël P. Wilkins. 1st ed. - Dublin : Royal Irish Academy, 2011. xv [i.e. xiv], 192 [i.e. 191]p. : ill., maps, portr. [photogr. of bust in Roy. Dublin Soc.] ; 19 cm. Bibliogr.: p.174-82. Topographical and placename index (to the Inverness survey): p.186-92. Notes at end of each chapter. - Contents: Introduction : the original manuscript and its transcription / N.P. Wilkins (p.1 12) Alexander Nimmo : Rector of Inverness Royal Academy / Robert Preece (p.18 29) - The Scottish Highlands and Ireland in the time of Alexander Nimmo / James Hunter (p.30 47) A cartographic perambulation around Alexander Nimmos Inverness-shire journal / Christopher Fleet (p.48 65) On becoming an engineer : Alexander Nimmos survey and his engineering career / N.P. Wilkins (p.66 - 88) Journal along the North East & South of Inverness Shire. Ends at Fort William / Alexander Nimmo (p.[89] or [90] [!] - 173). - ISBN 978-1-904890-74-4
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