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    "label": "A new description of the shyres Lothian and Linlitquo",
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    "title": "A new description of the shyres Lothian and Linlitquo",
    "description": "Relief shown pictorially.",
    "date": "[\"[1610]\"]",
    "year": 1610,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_007020",
    "creators": [
        "Pont, Timothy, 1560?-1614?"
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Lothian (Scotland)--Maps--Early works to 1800"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "Europe",
        "Lothian",
        "Scotland"
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    "publisher": "Sumptibus Andreae Hart"
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        "Shows rivers and tributaries, lochs, trees, roads, settlements (with churches), towns, main buildings, enclosures, ruins, and boundaries.",
        "With dedication by T. Pont to King James I.",
        "On dedication cartouche: \"93.\"",
        "Decoration: at top right corner, the dedication is inscribed in an elaborated frame ornated with the Royal Crest and two children holding open books; on the left bottom corner the title in fretwork cartouche; elaborated compass rose with rhumb lines radiating; some large names in flourished script; the coasts are shaded outwards and coloured; two ships in the Firth of Forth.",
        "Shows the area currently comprising East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian with parts of neighbouring counties (Fife, Lanarkshire, Berwickshire and Peeblesshire); shows as far south as the Lammermuir Hills and west to the river Avon.",
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