'Edinburgh Castle from the Grass Market, 1890.'
Reproduction of an illustration, mounted in a window frame.
'[ ]ms Blair'
'Edinburgh Castle from the Grass Market, 1890.'
Reproduction of an illustration, mounted in a window frame.
'[ ]ms Blair'
View of the city from the West.
'John Blair 1890'
'Edinburgh, published July 1st 1892 by Mess[ieu]rs Aitken, Dott & Son, 26 Castle Street Copyright registered Printed in Paris'
'John Blair' signature in lower margin.
'5' numbered in lower margin left.
Small architectural sketch in lower margin.
From John Blair, 'Blair's Edinburgh Views', being thirteen plates by Gompil & Cie. of Paris after water colours by John Blair (Edinburgh: Aitken, Dott & Son, 1892).
'Ordnance Survey of Scotland Glasgow Sheet 30'
'Engraved at the Ordnance Survey Office Southampton under the direction of Colonel Cameron, R.E. The outline by W. Newnam, the writing by J.A. Harrison, the hills by G. de Gorlieb. Published by Colonel Sir Henry James [...] Superintendent March 1866'
'Railways inserted to January 1893'
Various authors.
Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile.
'Board of Agriculture Ordnance Survey Dec. 94' relief stamp in top margin.
'Edinburgh Improvement Plans and Sections in Parliament, session 1893.'
Volume with thirteen plans mainly concerning proposed widening of streets in Edinburgh.
'John Cooper, Burgh Engineer, Edinburgh, William Skinner, W.S. Town-Clerk, Edinburgh'
Scale: 3 cm to 100 feet.
Perspective view of the Mound from Ramsay Garden to Bank Street showing the improvements proposed by Patrick Geddes.
George Shaw Aitken after Patrick Geddes.
Zonder titel'Views from Ben Nevis to G[ ] [ ] [from] [ ]'
Title inscription and dedication partially removed.
Album with 53 photographs taken from the Ben Nevis Observatory, mainly showing landscapes, but also people, cloud formations etc. The photographs are mounted in pairs on cardboard pages.
'Oct. '93' caption underneath one photograph.
Anon.
Possibly associated with William Speirs Bruce, polar explorer and oceanographer who was resident in University Hall Edinburgh and was in charge of the Ben Nevis Observatory 1895-1896.
Perspective view of the Mound from Ramsay Garden to Bank Street showing the improvements proposed by Patrick Geddes.
'G.S. Aitken May 1893'
Illegible endorsement in manuscript in pencil in lower margin.
Two photographs of Edinburgh.
Anon.; George Washington Wilson.
Zonder titelPhotograph of northern part of Ramsay Garden under construction.
Anon.
'Bailie Macpherson, [ ] Mann, Students/Allan Ramsay's House' endorsed underneath photograph in manuscript in pencil, from left.
'Herbertson, Thomson, Oliphant, Dawson, Mackenzie, Salmon' endorsed on left side of photograph in manuscript in pencil, from top.
'View of Glasgow [ ] 1793'
'Supplement to the Glasgow Weekly Herald, 5 May 1894'
'Mollison, Ness & Co. Lithographers, Glasgow'
Anon.
'Moubray House' endorsed in manuscript in ink.
Four photographs of various parts of Edinburgh, each mounted on cardboard, all originally mounted together on one sheet.
Anon.; James Valentine; Alexander Inglis.
(No. 720)
'J.V.' monogram
'Eton Terrace from Dean Bridge' endorsed in manuscript in ink.
Zonder titel(No. 388)
'A I' monogram.
'Site of proposed barracks' endorsed in manuscript in ink.
Zonder titel