[Untitled Chart of Leith]

£500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

From Collins’ Great Britain’s Coasting Pilot , 1736, the first printed English sea-atlas of British coastal waters, the charts engraved from surveys made by Collins himself. The chart has a fine ‘Prospect of Leith from the East’, with shipping in the foreground, and engraving of the town’s arms.

• Year: 1736

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