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'Veduta del Tempio di Cibele a Piazza della Bocca dell Verità'
'Piranesi Archit. dis. ed. incise'

From 'Vedute di Roma' (late 1740s to after 1760) (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, no. 183).

'Veduta degli Avannzi del Tempio della Pace.'
[Basilica of Maxentius (or Constantine)]
'Piranesi Architetto fec.'

'Ed. Yates' endorsed in bottom right corner in manuscript in pencil.

'[ ]' [monogram endorsed on reverse in bottom right corner in manuscript in pencil.

Watermark (French Lilly in oval) in half of sheet.

Traces of former backing on reverse.

From 'Vedute di Roma' (late 1740s to after 1760) (Wilton-Ely, John, 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings' (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1992-1994), 1, no. 161.
Wilton-Ely lists this engraving with the title "Veduta degli avanzi del Tablino della Casa Aurea di Nerone, detti volgamente il Tempio della Pace", earlier impressions appeared under the title as noted above in the catalogue entry.

'A Map of the Theatre of the King of Prussia's Campaign: Engraved for Gen[era]l Lloyd's History of the Seven Years War in Germany.'

Anon.

Scale: 1° to 15 German leagues

Includes lists of Glasgow College professors, term dates and procedures.

'Plan of New Streets & Squares intended for the City of Edinburgh'
'Ja.[mes] Craig Arch[itect] inven. et delin.'
'Published according to Act of Parliament Jan 1[s]t 1768'

Scale: 1 inch to 200 feet.

'This plan was begun to be carried into Execution Anno 1767 The Right Honour[a]ble Gilbert Laurie Esq Lord Provost' inscribed in lower margin.
Dedication to George III in lower margin.
Annotations in manuscript in pencil in lower margin and in plan.

Incomplete, minor parts outside engraved image missing, part missing left of cartouche in top margin, right end of plan missing completely.

The volumes list the apparatus required for each experiment, which Anderson's laboratory assistant or 'operator' would be expected to set out for him. One volume (MS 30.4) has also been used for notes on astronomy.

Lists room preparation and apparatus required for experiments in somatiology, electricity, magnetism, gravitation, mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics and astronomy. The same notebook has been used to record notes on astronomy.

MS letter. Discusses his work, 'Observations on the nature of evidence' and his reading of Castruceii Bonanimicii, 'Commentarium de bello Italio'. Also tells an allegoric fable of Squire H-----'s black bitch. Anderson's correspondent is the author of an essay on miracles.

'Tanjore reduced from an exact Survey.'

Anon.

Scale: 1 inch to 200 yards

Engraving shows positions of English (1758) and French (1771) attacks on Tanjore.

Papers relating to Professor Anderson's law plea with Glasgow College.

'La Topografia di Roma Di Gio Batta Nol[l]i Dalla Maggiore in Questa Minor Tauloa Dal Medesimo ridot[t]a E Da Ignazio Benedetti Incisa'

Scale unspecified.

Dedication to Cardinal Gio. Carlo Boschi in top left corner.

'3' endorsed top left corner in manuscript in pencil.

[Cities Exhibition.]

This is the second edition of Giovanni Battista Nolli's small map of Rome (1748), (Denison, Cara D., Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles, 'Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries' (Montréal: Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1993), p. 84).

Wilson asks Anderson to discount a bill of William Stevenson's for £3/12/- held by Messrs Glendy and Clark, divinity students.

Glasgow students who wished to attend Balliol College, Oxford for further study were able to compete for exhibitions, or bursaries.