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Reproduction of a plan de la Ville de Paris by Nicolas Maire, engineer to King Louis XVIII. The plan shows changes made by Royal decree. Drawn up in the reign of Napoleon I. Added insert shows the city walls up to 1813. Added lists give road names that were new in 1815 and states the positions of newly driven roads in 1816. Appears in Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition, exhibit number 274.

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A series of 67 items, made up of plans, drawings, photographs, collotypes, and illustrations which include original exhibits from Patrick Geddes' (1914 replacement) Cities and Town Planning Exhibition and which specifically form the exhibition sections entitled or themed 'Great Capitals' and 'American Cities.'

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Reproduction of a plan of Paris by Louis Bretez, engraved by Claude Lucas. This is one of the plans included in entry Coll-1167/A/6/1 above, the so-called Turgot Plan, drawn up in the reign of Louis XV.

Scope and Contents Journal of a tour made by Sir Charles Lyell in 1818 with his father, mother and his two older sisters. Pages are unnumbered, but there are dates throughout and the route is given at the top of every page. Lyell writes in a journal style, describing his excursions to geological sites, visits with his father - to visit botanists and a charity school - other people joining their trip (their encounter with a lady at Freiburg noted as 'one of the singular events of our tour'), and witnesses Lord...

Scope and Contents Travel journal detailing tours with Professor Buckland, covering Kinnordy (1819), Paris (1823), and Cornwall with Prevost, (1824).The pages are unnumbered. In July, Lyell travels from Exeter to Lyme, Honiton to Axminster. Comments on beauty of area. On Saturday 3rd July he is at Lyme and 'called on Mary Anning' who discovered a large ichthyosaur 'a fortnight ago'. Prevost sketches it, and Anning states she think it will sell for £120. While there, Lyell witnessed 'entry of a newly discovered...

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Image of the Venus D'Arles sculpture of Venus held by the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. 1.94 metre high sculpture in Hymettus marble dating to the end of the 1st century BC.