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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/X/1-4999

11. IOR/X/376

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

12. IOR/X/377

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/377
Title:
'Index to the Districts and Divisions of India 1868 Fifth Edition'. Compiled in the Surveyor General's Office 1862 and lithographed 1866.
Scope & Content:
Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights, railways, settlements, place names and administrative boundaries. Manuscript additions depict British territories, dependent, subordinate and protected states, and independent states. The original map, printed on paper, has been further mounted on ca...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1866-1868
Extent:

1 map sheet

13. IOR/X/378

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/378
Title:
'Hand Map of India 1869. Published under the direction of Colonel H.L. Thuillier R[oyal].A[rtillery]., F[ellow of the].R[oyal].G[eographical].S[ociety]., Surveyor General of India'.
Scope & Content:
Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights, roads, railways, telegraph stations, settlements and place names. The legend also states that British states, dependent, subordinate and protected states, and independent states are distinguished by colour, but such colour is not present. Compiled by J...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869
Extent:

1 map sheet

14. IOR/X/379/1/1-6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/379/1/1-6
Title:
'Sketch Map of India Shewing Political and Revenue Divisions 1869. 3rd Edition with corrections to 1869.' Published by the Survey of India.
Scope & Content:
Map series in 6 sheets numbered 1 to 6. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and hachures, roads, railways, settlements, place names and administrative boundaries. Sheet 6 has an inset of the Tenasserim Provinces. While the printed date is given as 1869, manuscript additions to railways su...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869-[1871]
Extent:

6 map sheets

15. IOR/X/393/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/393/1
Title:
Barometrical Sections: Nagpoor to Jaulna; Goa to Bellary; and Madras to Mysore. Created by the British East India Company, 1844.
Scope & Content:
Comprises 3 relief cross-sections: Nagpoor to Jaulna Goa to Bellary Madras to Mysore Portrays place names and barometrically derived altitudes, and includes notes on topography, climate and health. Vertical scale 1:12,000. The verso bears the note 'In Madras Public Letter 13 August No 14 1844, ...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844
Extent:

1 map sheet

16. IOR/X/393/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/393/2
Title:
Barometrical Sections: Cape Comorin to the source of the Taptee River near Mooltye; and Caves of Elloora to Masulipatam. Created by the British East India Company
Scope & Content:
Comprises 2 relief cross-sections: Cape Comorin to the source of the Taptee River near Mooltye Caves of Elloora to Masulipatam Portrays place names and barometrically derived altitudes, and includes notes on topography, climate and health. Vertical scale 1:12,000. The verso bears an affixed la...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844?
Extent:

1 map sheet

17. IOR/X/394

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/394
Title:
'Barometrical Section from Madras to Bellary. By Captain W. Cullen Artillery.'
Scope & Content:
Comprises 1 geological cross-section in 2 parts. Portrays rock types, place names and barometrically derived altitudes. Vertical scale 1:12,000. Date derived from information in Related Material. The verso bears an affixed label of the Examiner's Office, British East India Company.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
between 1822-1823
Extent:

1 map sheet

18. IOR/X/395/8-14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/395/8-14
Title:
'Hodgson's Series of Vertical Sections. Signed by J.A. Hodgson, Surveyor General of India, 1822.'
Scope & Content:
Comprises 6 relief cross-sections portraying heights and place names. Sheets as follows: X/395/8 'No. 8. Section of the Mountain Provinces between the Sutluj and Ganges Rivers. By Captain J.A. Hodgson and Lieut[enan]t. J.D. Herbert. Copied by D.H. Chill.' Horizontal scale approximately 1:126,720...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822
Extent:

6 map sheets and 1 cover

19. IOR/X/396/1-308

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/396/1-308
Title:
'The Spirit Levels and Trigonometrical Heights of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, combined with Spirit Levels of the Department of Public Works (also Canal, Revenue, and other surveys). Expressed in feet and referred to the datum of the mean sea level of Karachi harbour.' - India Office map catalogue.
Scope & Content:
The following note is copied from the India Office catalogue: 'This title [see Title field above] (except the part in parentheses), appears at the head of the Second Editions of sheets 1 and 3 of the series; and as it seems to be well adapted to the general scope of the work, it is adopted here...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869-1908
Extent:

44 map sheets and 39 folios

20. IOR/X/397/1-2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/397/1-2
Title:
'Karte von Alt-Indien zu Prof[essor]. Chr[istian]. Lassens Indischer-Altherthumskunde, bearbeitet und gezeichnet von Dr. H. Kiepert. A Map of Ancient India, with the Indian Classical and Principal Modern Names, to Illustrate Pof[essor] Lassen's Indian Antiquities. Drawn by Henry Kiepert L.L.D. at Berlin. 1853.'
Scope & Content:
IOR/X/397/1 and IOR/X/397/2 are identical copies of the same map. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures, settlements, modern and ancient place names, and ethnographic regions, and includes linguistic notes. Also contains insets entitled 'Sketch of the Boundaries of Languages Now Existent in In...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1853
Extent:

2 map sheets