The History Of Edinburgh, From Its Foundation To The Present Time; Containing A faithful Relation of the publick Transactions of the Citizens; Accounts of the several Parishes; it Governments, Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military; Incorporations of Trade and Manufactures; Courts of Justice; State of Learning; Charitable Foundations, &c.
Edinburgh: Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, 1753. First edition. Hardcover. 518 pages. Large 4to, 35 x 22 cm. Twenty full-page copper engraved plates by Fourdrinier [see: RUSSELL --GUIDE TO BRITISH TOPOGRAPHICAL PRINTS, p.190], folding plan of Edinburgh, plus two additional 19th century maps of Edinburgh bound-in: one dated 1828 (Drawn and..... More