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London : Baldwin & Cradock, 1834. A finely worked town-plan of Edinburgh, giving good detail at a scale of some eight inches to the mile. With an inset view of the castle and detail of the proposed extension off Leith Walk. Arrayed along the lower edge of the map are thumbnail elevations of the principal buildings. Engraved by Edmund Turrell (fl.1815-1838) from a drawing by the architect W.B.Clarke, as part of a series produced for the "Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" (1831-1843).
Steel line engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface 309 x 390mm (approx. 12-1/8" x 15-3/8"). Two small and faint spots, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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London & Edinburgh : A. Fullarton & Co., [1857]. An attractive antique map - Edinburgh and the hills to the south on a scale of just over six miles to the inch - the map displayed within a decorative border. Originally produced for John Marius Wilson's "The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland", published in parts between 1854 and 1857.
Lithograph on paper. Original hand colour. Printed surface 119 x 175mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 6-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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[Frankfurt : 1685]. A striking antique print offering a pleasant panoramic image of seventeenth-century Edinburgh - from the French mathematician, engineer and surveyor Allain Manesson-Mallet. Originally produced for Mallet's "Description de l'Univers" (Paris : 1683) and here in a slightly later impression produced for the German edition, published as "Beschreibung des Gantzen Welt-Kreisses" (Frankfurt : 1684-1685).
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 155 x 104mm (approx. 6-1/8" x 4-1/8"). A few slight marks to outer blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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