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Gordon, Robert, of Straloch

Biography: Cartographer, mathematician, composer, poet and geographer. Born Kinmundy, Aberdeenshire 1580. Educated in Aberdeen, and is noted as the first graduate of Marischal College,1597. Travelled to Paris 1598. Returned to Scotland by June 1601 and purchased the estate of Straloch. Justice of the Peace for Aberdeenshire 1636. Asked by Charles I in 1641 to alter and correct Timothy Pont's proof maps of various shires of Scotland for inclusion in Blaeu's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
Biography Date: 1580-1661
Biography References: LOC; DNB; Fasti 185;

Book List

6 Items Ordered by Owner, A to Z

Owner (other form of name)	Book Title	Author	Publication Place	Date
Gordon, R.	Theatrum Imperii Magnae Brittanniae; exactam regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et insularum adjacentium geographiam ob oculos ponens: una cum comitatibus, centuriis,...	Speed, John	London	1616
Gordon, Robert	Theatrum orbis terrarum	Blaeu, Willem Janszoon	Amsterdam	1644-45
Gordon, Robert	Scotia, quae est Europae liber XII. (Theatrum orbis terrarum, vol.5)	Blaeu, Jan	Amsterdam	1654
Gordon, Robert	Epistolae.	Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20.	Basel	1492
Gordon, Robert, of Straloch	Protomathesis : Opus varium, ac scitu non minus utile quàm iucundum, nunc primùm in lucem foeliciter emissum. Cuius index universalis,...	Fine, Oronce	Paris	1532
Gordon, Robert, of Straloch	The lawes and actes of Parliament, maid be King James the First, and his successours Kinges of Scotland.	Scotland. Parliament.	Edinburgh	1597