Box PC6/2

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A coloured engraving showing Dunfermline Abbey and Palace, east of Dollar, inland Fife. Drawn in 1788 by J. Farrington R.A. Engraved by C. Catton, Jnr. London. Published Feb 1 by F. Jukes, No. 10 Howland Street.? Nicely coloured. (Number in corner 411; on back Thur 3 Feb 1950.) [In previous catalogue: ?Catton after Farrington 1792? -note dated 3 February 1950.

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A plan of the Park Inch and Midd Chingle Fisings on the River Dee in the Process of Declarator before the Court of Session at the Instance of Sir Robert Burnett of Leys, Baronet, and others Pursuers, against the Earl of Aberdeen and others deffenders. Made out by the authority of the Court.

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Second copy of a litograph showing the foot of the West Bow, engraved by James Duffield Harding and drawn by George Cattermole but with larger margins (See Coll-1167/B/6/2).

Scope and Contents Duplicate copy of Coll-1167/B/8/7a. A duplicate copy or print of Joseph Nash's lithograph of Moray House, Edinburgh which depicts a battle or skirmish outside Moray House at Canongate, Edinburgh. Moray House was built in the 1620s by Mary, Dowager Countess of Home. It served as Cromwell's Edinburgh lodgings and was the scene of some of the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Union in 1707. The building is now part of the University of Edinburgh's Moray House School of Education. The...

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Coloured Print, copy of an engraving by John Le Conte, etched by Thomas Dobbie, published by Alexander Hill, 67 Princes Street, Edinburgh, 1 October 1844.

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9 photographs of Edinburgh by Thomas Begbie on 1 mount. 1. Cardinal Beaton’s House, Cowgate. (demolished) 2. Site of Alan Ramsay’s Shop, north side of High Street. 3. Entrance Gate, Moray House, Canongate. 4. Lower End of Canongate, North side (demolished). 5. Canongate Tolbooth, North side of Canongate. 6. Huntly House, Canongate, South side. 7. Queen Mary’s Bath, (tenement on right demolished) 8. Abbey Hill (demolished) 9. Abbey Strand, Holyrood.

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The plan of the city and castle of Edinburgh by William Edgar Architect anno 1742. Appears in Geddes' "Edinburgh Survey", no. 118 (i).

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Likely to be a duplicate reproduction of an engraving by William Lizars, showing the state of the Parliament Square at day-break on Wednesday 17 November 1824.

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Print from lithograph, showing the Old Assembly Close on the second day of the Great Fire of Edinburgh. inscribed in ink. No attribution.

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Print from an etching by William Lizars, showing the view from the Old Fish Market Close.