Lot 68
Edinburgh Maps and Plans - Collection, including
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Plan referred to in the reports respecting a tunnel under the Forth. 1806, with one leaf of The Scots Magazine; Knox, James Plan of Edinburgh and its Environs. 1824. Dissected and backed on linen; Johnston, W. & A.K. The city of Edinburgh drawn and engraved for Gray's annual directory. 1837. Backed on linen; Lizars. W.H. Plan of Edinburgh and Leith. Engraved expressly for the Post Office, Directory. [c.1845]; another copy [c.1846], tear repaired, very slight marginal loss; another copy [c.1855]; Plan of the City of Edinburgh and environs with the town and port of Leith, Newhaven and Granton, [c.1850], neat repairs to verso; [Weekly Dispatch Atlas] Edinburgh, drawn & engraved by B.R. Davies, [c.1853], some loss at central fold; Bartholomew, John Plan of Edinburgh & Leith with suburbs, from Ordnance and actual surveys. 1868, repaired on verso; another copy 1869, two short repairs on verso; another copy 1870, two small repairs on verso; another copy 1871; another copy 1872, 1873, 1875, 1877, 1886-7; Johnston, W. & A.K. Post office plan of Edinburgh, Leith and Portobello. 1896-97, coloured, slight loss to NE corner; another edition 1910-11, hand-coloured in outline; another edition 1913-14, hand-coloured in outline; another edition: New Parliamentary Divisions, 1918, laid down; and a map with caption cropped with the Railways and Tramways marked in ink, most maps with a little dust-soiling (21)