Bird's eye view of the city of Senlis.
'Senlis'
'lob Peeters delin.'
Bird's eye view of the city of Senlis.
'Senlis'
'lob Peeters delin.'
Anon.
Item cropped, was originally top part of larger engraving.
'The Province of Ulster'
Anon.
Scale unspecified.
Some additional inscriptions and lines in manuscript in ink.
'Pagoda near Calcutta, June 1704 G.H.'
G.H. [monogram]
Title in manuscript in ink on reverse.
Traces of former backing on reverse.
Photographs, glass slides, postcards, maps, plans, illustrations, diagrams and drawings of individual towns, cities and regions in India.
This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner'Dr. Edn: Brown's Travells thro Diverse parts of Europe.'
'One sheet with illustrations referring to pages 501-509.
-'A True Draught on the Borders of Scalvonia & Lower Hungary'
-'An Hungarian'
-'A Bulgarian Woman'
-[View of Larissa in Greece]
Anon. [Edward Brown, i.e. John Campbell]
From John Harris, 'Navigantiam atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca: or, a complete collection of voyages and travels: consisting of above four hundred of the most authentic writers' 2 vols (London, 1705), 2, facing p. 502.
Various maps and city views in Portugal and Spain.
To the above map was added the southern part of Portugal and Spain from a different map with roughly the same scale:
To the above maps were added in the right and left margins city views and plans. Opposing items in the margins formed originally one sheet, which was cut in two halves, then mounted beside the maps.
Left margin top: 'Olivenca [ ... ]'; 'A Paris chez le Sr. de Fer dans l'lsle du Palais sur le [ ]'. Right margin top: 'Setuval ou Setubal'; '[ ] Quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale avec privil. du Roy.'; 'A. Coquart sculp.'
Left margin centre: 'Etremos' and 'St. lulien ou St. Giao'; 'A. Coquart sculp.'; 'A Paris chez le Sr. de Fer dans l'lsle du Palais sur le [ ]'. Right margin centre: 'Villa Viçiosa' and 'Aronches'; '[ ] Quay de l'Orloge a la Sphere Royale avec privil. du Roy.'
Left margin bottom: 'Elvas'; 'A Paris du Palais chez le Sr. de Fer a la Sphere Royale avec Privilege du Roy.'. Right margin bottom:
'Evora'; 'A. Coquart sculp.'
The above city views and maps probably from Nicolas de Fer, L'Atlas Curieux, vol. 6, 1705, map 179: Olivença / Setuvial, map:.177: Estiemos I Villa Viçiosa / St. Lulien ou St. Giao / Aronches, and map 178: Elvas / Evora (Pastoreau, Fer I, p. 177).
Along the top margin of the above maps two further engravings were added:
Top margin left: 'Palais Royale de Lisbonne.' and 'Le Chateau de Belem.'
Top margin right: 'Lisbonne'
Nicolaus de Fer after Pedro Teixeira Albemaz; P[ ] Starck-man after Nicolaus de Fer; A[ ] Coquart.
'Cities Exhibition.'
Coquart, A, fl. 1696, engraverGeneral maps, plans, diagrams and views of Paris.
This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner'Le Mont Cassin'
'Dessine sur le lieux par M. de la Salle'
'A Paris chez le S.r de Fer dans L'Isle du Palais a la Sphere Royale avec privil. du Roy. 1705'
A[ ] Coquart (plan 1-7); Nicolas de Fer (plan 8).
Scale unspecified.
'Cities Exhibition No. 936'
Both Nicolas de Fer, 'Suite de I Atlas Curieux' (Paris, 1714-1716), and N. de Fer, 'Les Beautés de la France' contained a set of seven maps of Paris. The titles are the same as maps 1 - 7 above, but the dimensions are different. (Pastoureau, Fer IC, p. 179; Fer IVB, p. 195).
Coquart, A, fl. 1696, engraverCollection of books, journals, maps and yearbooks. Also SMC library register (1 volume) recording books borrowed from the collection from 1935-2007.
It includes historical and current publications by the Scottish Mountaineering Club and Scottish Mountaineering Trust along with a vast library of books on: technical and philosophical aspects of mountaineering, climbing, skiing, hill walking and other outdoor pursuits; fiction and literature; biographies and autobiographies; travel and exploration from all over the world which includes an extensive collection of Scottish texts; history of mountaineering; antiquarian collection of 18th century Scottish travel and tour books.
Scottish Mountaineering ClubTwo bird's-eye views of country houses with adjoining gardens, mounted on one sheet.
'Cities Exhibition No. 894'
'Plan de Paris [... ]'
Scale unspecified.
Inset: [plan of the city's environs and of its water supply network].
'Cities Exhibition No. 271'
Bullet, Pierre, 1639-1716, architect'Nouveau Plan des Ville, Chateau et Jardins de Versailles'
'Dessine sur les lieux en 1714, avec la marche que le Roy à ordonée pour faire voir le Jardin, les Bosquets et les Fontaines du dit Chateau Royal de Versailles'
'Se vend a Paris chez [le] Sr. [mondhatech] rue St Jacques'
Anon.
'No. 98' endorsed in manuscript in ink in bottom left and top right corner.
'19' endorsed in manuscript in ink in top left corner.
[Cities Exhibition.]
[Publisher probably L. Mondhare, publisher at Paris, Rue St. Jacques près la Fontaine St Sévérin (Tooley, Ronald, ‘Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers’ (New York: Alan R. Liss, 1979), p. 445).]
Mondhare, L., publisherProbably a title illustration for an atlas or a historical account.
Anon.
'B. Picart inv. et fecit 1720'