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Forth, Firth of (Scotland)

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Locator = 56.058117;-3.021256,Other = OS,Created For = Scotland

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Proof copy of article on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History', 1881

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/8/4
Scope and Contents First proof copy of an article by Sir Archibald Geikie on 'The Geological Influences which have Affected the Course of British History' from printers Clay, Sons and Taylor, for Macmillan the publisher in 1881. This looked at ancient peoples and legendary figures, puting them in the context of the evolution of the natural world. Including elements such as the impact of the devlopment of commerce and the move from an agricultural to an urban industrial society, Sir Archibald Geikie mapped them...
Dates: 1881
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Publication proofs and lecture syllabuses

Tantallon Castle, 1838

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/209
Scope and Contents

Tantallon Castle. Line engraving. 1838. Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872, Artist; Sands, Robert, 1782-1855, Engraver; Virtue, George, 1793?-1868, Publisher.

Published in: W. Beattie, Scotland Illustrated in a Series of Views (1838), vol. I.

Dates: 1838
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

The Bass, 1744

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/202(iii)
Scope and Contents

The Bass. Line engraving. 1744. Slezer, John, -1714, Artist; Knapton, John and Paul, Publisher.

Published in: Views of the Principal Towns and Castles in Scotland For Mr Tindal's continuation of Mr Rapin's History (1744).

Note: Ink inscription below title: 'Tyndale's [sic] Rapin'.

Dates: 1744
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

The Bass Island, 1686

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/203
Scope and Contents

The Bass Island. Etching. 1686. Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702, Artist; Place, Francis, 1647-1728, Engraver; Bowles, John, 1701-1779, Publisher.

Publisher statement: I Bowles ex.

Published in: Portfolio: Various Birds and Beasts Drawn from the Life, Plate 3.

Note: Date as original. The Bowles edition 'is in a late state from the 1720s' (BM 1850,0223.854).

Dates: 1686
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

The Bass Isle from Tantellon Castle, 1774

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/202(i)
Scope and Contents

The Bass Isle from Tantellon Castle. Line engraving. 1774. Griffith, Moses, 1747-1819, Artist; Mazell, Peter, active 1761-1797, Engraver.

Published in: Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland MDCCLXIX. Third edition (1774).

Note: Pencil inscription: 'Pennant's Scotland'.

Dates: 1774
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

View of Leith from the East Road, August 1751

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/35
Scope and Contents

View of Leith from the East Road. Etching. August 1751. Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, Artist, Engraver; Sandby, William, -1799, Publisher; Hamilton, Gavin, 1703-1767, Publisher.

Publisher statement: Published according to Act of Parliament … sold by Wm, Sandby Bookseller overagainst St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street, London & Gavin Hamilton Bookseller in Edinburgh.

Dates: August 1751
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian

View of Leith in the County of Mid-Lothian, 1784

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/34
Scope and Contents

View of Leith in the County of Mid-Lothian. Line engraving. 1784. Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, Artist; Hogg, Alexander, active 1778-1819, Publisher.

Published in: G. A. Walpoole, The New British Traveller (1784).

Dates: 1784
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 2. Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian