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Heron - A Map of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, Comprehending the Spanich Provinces of East and West Florida… by Joseph Purcell - This historic map engraving is from Robert Heron's A New and Complete System of Universal Geography . The work was published in 1796 in Edinburgh by R. Morison & Son. Robert Heron (1764-1807) was a Scottish writer. He attended the University of Edinburgh in 1780 where he supported his studies working for booksellers. He went to jail as a debtor, but released when he began to write History of Scotland . Provenance: Bookplate of Richardson of Pitfour; From Library of the Stevenson Lighthouse Engineers