Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has 1776 edition of "The American atlas” by Major Holland & Thomas Jefferys

Added at 06:22 on 04 July 2025

4 July is America's Independence Day, celebrating the Declaration of Independence of the United States from Great Britain in 1776. The Leighton Library has a contemporary 1776 edition of "The American atlas : or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America composed from numerous surveys by Major Holland et al Engraved on forty-nine copper-plates, by Thomas Jefferys."

Samuel Holland was First Surveyor General of British North America, and Thomas Jeffreys was Geographer to King George III. The atlas features maps of the Americas from the Arctic to Cape Horn.

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