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Marseille, France

 Subject

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Harbour Towns: plans, panoramas, views and comparative elevations, 1832-1840, c.1914

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/A/5/15
Scope and Contents

Set of 8 prints showing plans of towns with panoramas, views and comparative elevations of principal buildings to same scale. All published for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Top row, left to right: 1. Liverpool, 2. New York, 3. Genoa, 4. Lisbon. Second row, left to right, 5. Marseilles, 6. Naples., 7. Bordeaux, 8. Copenhagen.

Dates: c.1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / The Cities and Town Planning Exhibitions / Renaissance Cities

Marseille, 1840, c.1914

 piece
Identifier: Coll-1167/A/5/15/e
Scope and Contents

Plan of Marseille showing layout and elevations of principal buildings to scale.

Dates: c.1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / The Cities and Town Planning Exhibitions / Renaissance Cities / Harbour Towns: plans, panoramas, views and comparative elevations, 1832-1840

Notebook No.13, 24 July 1828 - 23 August 1828

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 1: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/13
Scope and Contents This brown leather notebook is written in daily entries with full page detailed sketches, and contains notes on geology of Montpellier and Nice, reflections on geological processes and the extension of Rhone delta. On pp.76-78 Lyell writes an analogy between history and geology; p.79 is titled "One state of Nature dependant on another". Front plate: No 6, France, Montpelier, to Grosail. July 24th to Aug 23rd 1828. Written in pencil and ink. ...
Dates: 24 July 1828 - 23 August 1828
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks