Nichols (J. publisher). Antiquities in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Scotland and Wales..., 1790

Nichols (J. publisher). Antiquities in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Scotland and Wales. being the Fifth Volume of the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica,.., 1790, title page detached with old library blind stamp, half-titles throughout, 8 uncoloured engraved plates 6 genealogical tables and 8 uncoloured maps, including G. & W. Patersons "A Survey of Old and New Aberdeen with ye Adjacent Country between ye Rivers Dee and Don..., dated 1746 but most likely a 1790 impression, bookplate of the Free Public Library Wigan, hinges and joints cracked and weak, endpapers detached, near contemporary calf, crude library re-back in cloth with manuscript author's name and the remains of the contemporary morocco label affixed to the spine, scuffed and worn, 4to

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The map of Aberdeen was first published during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 - 46. Aberdeen was held by Lord Lewis Gordon who raised both men and money for the Jacobite cause. The Hanoverian commander sent an army of clansmen to attack Aberdeen and the two armies met at Inverurie - north of Aberdeen - on 23rd December 1745. The Jacobites won the day, the battle taking place just a month before this detailed plan was published. Copac records only two examples of the map of Aberdeen. The British Library's copy is in the King's Topographical Collection, bound with a manuscript version, and The National Library of Scotland's example is bound - as is this example - in volume 5 of the 'Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica'. Other maps contained within this volume include The Isles of Zetland by T. Gifford, and Nichols' Plan of the Stourbridge Fair taken in 1725.

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