A new book, Scotland: Mapping the Nation, brings together historic and unusual maps as a "window into Scottish history". The Ptolemy map is the earliest known depiction of Scotland in a map. Ptolemy was a 2nd Century Roman geographer. This map first appeared in a book in 1654. The maps come from the National Library of Scotland.

Following the Tramways Act of 1870, which allowed rails to be laid along public highways, horse-drawn tram routes expanded rapidly in Scotland’s main cities. This map shows the routes in 1908, by which time electric traction had been introduced.

This Edinburgh image dates from about 1582. The city is shown in bird’s-eye view, with the houses, streets and open spaces. It was taken from George Braun and Franz Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum.

This German bombing map of Edinburgh from 1941 provides a chilling insight into the military technologies of World War II.

A Soviet map of Greenock pinpointing factories and military installations is captured in the collection.

The lines of the North British Railway, the main rival to the Caledonian. The map also shows the newly-completed West Highland Line to Fort William (in 1894), and the dashed lines show railways under construction.