Where Tsar Peter worked as a shipwright, Zaandam, Netherlands rejoicing A horizontal scale of 4

A horizontal scale of 4 miles is noted in faint pencil beneath the image

The oath of Walter l'Espec

Plate 24 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain

Inscribed verso in ink: 'ùheley Velra Brit Buck Grose'

Sir David Gill was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1883

Where Tsar Peter worked as a shipwright, Zaandam, Netherlands rejoicing A horizontal scale of 4Where Tsar Peter worked as a shipwright, Zaandam, Netherlands, c1934. Russian czar Peter the Great stayed here in 1697. Illustration from La Hollande by Henry Asselin, (Van Munster's Uitgevers Maatschappij, Amsterdam, c1934).