| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 6521 |  | Details | Nautical Warehouse | 1830 |
| Rare trade card Nautical Warehouse Leith Scotland harbor map |
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Nautical Warehouse |
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| 1830 |
| LOC:300 |
| $375.00 | Nautical-Warehouse | Rare-trade-card-Nautical-Warehouse-Leith-Scotland-harbor-map | Rare lithographed trade card c. 1830 for the Nautical Warehouse in Leith, Scotland. 4.5" x 3". As a logo a naval officer ("the Little Midshipman") is shown with a sextant taking a sighting atop a bracket shelf bearing the name "Hume."
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Verso with a plan of Leith Harbor. The plan shows the East and West piers, a Martello Tower offshore, two wet docks and a small number of depth soundings leading to the entrance into the harbor between the two piers. The map includes an arrow showing the set off the ebb tide, an important consideration for mariners entering the harbor given the small entrance.
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Recto reads:
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AT THE NAUTICAL WAREHOUSE 57 SHORE, Sign of the NAVAL OFFICER are sold Charts of North Sea, Baltic, Atlantic, English, and St. Georges Channel &c
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The trade card goes on to list many of the items sold at the Nautical Warehouse:
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<li>Nories, Riddles, and Moore's Navigations</li>
<li>Bibles</li>
<li>Tonnage tables</li>
<li>Mathematical instruments</li>
<li>Log books</li>
<li>Coaster's guides</li>
<li>Shipmaster's Assistant</li>
<li>Parallel Rules</li>
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Lithographed by Hume. |