ORDNANCE SURVEY OF EDINBURGHSHIRE FINELY BOUND SIX INCH FIRST EDITION MAP OF THE EDINBURGH AREA Southampton: Ordnance Map Office & Lt. Col. H. James [1853-1855]. Elephant folio, with index sheet, double page maps showing battle sites, another view of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth, with 24 (of 25) sheets (sheet 21, mostly blank, lacking; sheets 8, 17, 20 & 24 each lacking one half which is usually blank); [bound with] Kerr, R.E. Ordnance Plan of the Parishes of Dalmeny and Cramond. Southampton: The Ordnance Map Office, 1856. Comprising a selection of 12 double-page hand-coloured sheets from the map; impressive brown morocco gilt by Wiseman with a gilt acanthus border and the arms of Trinity College Cambridge to the upper cover, and a scallop shell and cross border overlaying the acanthus motif border on the lower cover, with scallop shell motifs and arms depicting scallop shells within a St Andrews cross to the lower cover
ORDNANCE SURVEY OF EDINBURGHSHIRE FINELY BOUND SIX INCH FIRST EDITION MAP OF THE EDINBURGH AREA Southampton: Ordnance Map Office & Lt. Col. H. James [1853-1855]. Elephant folio, with index sheet, double page maps showing battle sites, another view of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth, with 24 (of 25) sheets (sheet 21, mostly blank, lacking; sheets 8, 17, 20 & 24 each lacking one half which is usually blank); [bound with] Kerr, R.E. Ordnance Plan of the Parishes of Dalmeny and Cramond. Southampton: The Ordnance Map Office, 1856. Comprising a selection of 12 double-page hand-coloured sheets from the map; impressive brown morocco gilt by Wiseman with a gilt acanthus border and the arms of Trinity College Cambridge to the upper cover, and a scallop shell and cross border overlaying the acanthus motif border on the lower cover, with scallop shell motifs and arms depicting scallop shells within a St Andrews cross to the lower cover
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