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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/331
Title:: 'Mapp of the Mallabar Coast and of the Costa di Pescaria No. 3. Rec'd 13th November 1705 by ye Dutchess via Fort St. George.'
Scope & Content:: The map bears no title but is endorsed as above; the verso bears the same note. Portrays coastal hydrography, pictorial relief, coastal settlements and indigenous land divisions.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1705
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/340
Title:: 'Map of India. Engraved and printed by A. Arrowsmith.' 1818.
Scope & Content:: Map bears the inscription 'To The Right Honorable John Sullivan M.P. one of His Majesty's Commissioners of the Affairs of India, whose Life has been devoted to the improvement of the British Interests in the Last. This Map of India is inscribed by his sincere and affectionate Friend, A. Allan'. ...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1818
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/345/1-16
Title:: 'Atlas of the North West of India. Part 1st Containing Maps of the Countries between the Latitudes of 28º50' & 32º North & the Longitudes of 75º50' & 81º30' East. Constructed from Recent Surveys by J.A. Hodgson Surveyor Genl. of India. 1823'.
Scope & Content:: Comprises 1 title page and 15 map sheets numbered I to XV, all signed by J.A. Hodgson and dated 1823. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and either shading or hachures, roads and pathways, settlements, place names, trigonometrical stations with observed rays, and includes topographical ...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1823
Extent:: 15 map sheets and 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/347/1
Title:: 'Map of India'. Drawn and engraved by John Walker. Published by Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen. 1825.
Scope & Content:: Map bears the inscription 'This Newly constructed and extended Map of India from the Latest Surveys of the best Authorities, Published principally for the use of Officers of the Army in India, is respectfully Inscribed to Major General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., K.L.S. &c.' Originally a sing...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1825
Extent:: 1 map sheet and 1 pocket

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/348/1-2
Title:: 'A General Map of India. Compiled from the Latest Authorities. Drawn & Engraved by J. Walker.' Published by James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the Hon[oura]ble. East India Company. 1825.
Scope & Content:: 1 map on 2 sheets. Portrays hydrography, relief by hachures, settlements, place names, British Territories and States under British Protection.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1825
Extent:: 2 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/350
Title:: 'A new Map of the Ancient Division of the Deckan Illustrative of the History of the Hindu Dynasties with Discriptions of the Principal Places is respectfully dedicated To The Hon[oura]ble Sir Charles Grey Kt. By C.V. Ramaswamy. 1827.'
Scope & Content:: Note spelling 'Discription' [sic] in title. Covers India south of Calcutta. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures, settlements, place names, temples, pagodas, diamond mines, gold coins, copper coins and administrative boundaries. 'Printed at the Asiatic Lithographic Press. Calcutta'. The ori...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1827
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/369
Title:: 'Districts & Divisions of India. 1862.' Signed by H.E.L. Thuillier, Surveyor General of India and published by the Survey of India.
Scope & Content:: Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights, settlements, place names and administrative boundaries. The original map, printed on paper, has been further mounted on paper (backed with linen) for the purposes of conservation.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1862
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/371
Title:: 'India'. Fifth Edition. Compiled in the Surveyor General's Office 1862 and lithographed 1864.
Scope & Content:: Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and shading, roads, railways, settlements, place names, telegraph stations and administrative boundaries. Sheet history notes give names of additional surveyors, cartographers and lithographers. 'Lady Canning's Map' - India Office map catalogue The or...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1862-1864
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/372/1-6
Title:: 'Sketch Map of India by John Walker. Surveyor Gen[era]l's Office Calcutta 1864.'
Scope & Content:: One map on 6 sheets. [Sheet 1, north-western India, was not present on transfer.] Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures, roads, railways, canals, telegraphs, settlements, place names and administrative boundaries, and includes a brief compilation note. Manuscript additions depict supplementary ...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1864-1867?
Extent:: 5 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/376
Title:: A companion atlas to those published by Major James Rennell in 1779 and 1781, containing reprints of existing maps made by Rennell not published in his atlases nor in the Surveyor General's reprint (1910) of the 1781 atlas, illustrated by a memoir by F.C. Hirst and F.D. Ascoli, describing all the extant remains of Major Rennell's Surveys.
Scope & Content:: Imprint: Bengal, Government Press, 1914. The text accompanying this atlas was published as: A Memoir upon the maps of Bengal constructed from 1764 onward by Major James Rennell. Calcutta, Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1914 (catalogued separately)
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1914
Extent:: 1 volume

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