Ink and water-colour drawing of Edinburgh and the Forth Estuary, entitled, Bird's-eye View from South showing Advantages and Disadvantages of Site.” Hand drawn in watercolour copy of Coll-1167/B/2/4 but with analysis of site.

Ink and water-colour drawing of a bird's eye view showing the hill fort associated with sea port (Leith) signed by Frank C. Mears

Diagrammatic Plan of the new Royal Burgh showing the probable extensions and boundaries prior to the grant of ecclesiastical settlements around 1230. The central street or market-place of Edinburgh was laid out one hundred feet wide with low galleried houses on each side.

Diagrammatic Plan of the new Royal Burgh showing the probable extensions and boundaries during the thirteenth century. The central street or market-place of Edinburgh was laid out one hundred feet wide with low galleried houses on each side.

Ink and water-colour drawing by Frank C. Mears, 1910, showing showing the Castle and the spine of the High Street form the south. Also depicts medieval developments of Castle and Royal Burgh, with Holyrood Abbey and beginnings of the aristocratic Burgh of Canongait.

Ink and water-colour drawing by Frank C. Mears, 1910, showing medieval developments of Castle and Royal Burgh, with Holyrood Abbey and beginnings of aristocratic Burgh of Canongait. It also shows the Grassmarket and the "Nor Loch" and the city walls.

Plan showing secular institutions on sites of monasteries etc., and carrying on some of their functions (largely educational).

Print from an etching by William Lizars showing the remnant of the Great Gable, the highest in Edinburgh, from the Cowgate at one o’clock on Saturday 20th November 1824. Written in ink, "1824".

Large photograph after David Octavius Hill. The First General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, signing the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission, at Tanfield, Edinburgh, 23 May 1843.