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Auction: 15023 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 3637

Great Britain
Postal History
1779 (June) Peter Williamson's "List of all the streets, wynds, squares, and closes, of the city of Edinburgh" (340x460mm.) and with "Edinburgh printed and sold by Peter Williamson, at his penny post office, Luckenbooths, where Letters and Parcel, are regularly delivered within a mile of the cross of Edinburgh, and as far as North and South Leith, for one Penny each. N.B. Burial letters are delivered for one halfpenny each, when the publisher is employed to print them" imprint; fold and some stains. The only recorded example in private hands and with no other copy located in institutions. A Scottish postal history rarity of major importance. Photo

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Estimate
£2,000 to £2,500