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City of Calcutta
Survey of India ; Burra...
City of Calcutta
1912
10403.000
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[Survey of India, Burrard, Sidney Gerald]
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City of Calcutta. Published under the direction of Colonel S.G. Burrard, R.E.F.R.S.. Officiating Surveyor General of India. September 1911. With additions & corrections to April 1912.
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10403.000
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"A rare, spectacular, and meticulously surveyed large format 1912 city plan or map of Calcutta, or Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Issued in the year after the capital of British India, facing local religious and political unrest, relocated to New Delhi. Centered on Fort William, this massive map extends north as far as Chitpore, south to Parganas, and from the Botanical Gardens and Civil Engineering College in the west, east as far as Kohdaganj, Pagladanga, and Tangra. The Hooghly River features prominently at center with docks and piers noted throughout. The map offers extraordinary detail throughout, with every street, statue, monuments, theater, market, offices, church, hotel, hospital, press, and much more note. This map was issued during a transformative period for Calcutta. Bengal was partitioned in 1905 along religious lines, separating the Muslim eastern Bengal form the largely Hindu, Western Bengal. While intended to reduce strife, the partition proved unpopular, leading to radical nationalism among Bengali Hindus, who turned to terrorism to vent their frustrations. The partitioning was undone in 1911, largely to assuage Bengali Hindus - to the annoyance of Muslims. Calcutta became increasingly tense and emerged as major hub for nationalism, religious conflict, and revolutionary organizations. While the capital of British India was removed to New Delhi in 1911, Calcutta remained an important regional center. There can be little doubt that this meticulous survey, completed in the year of the reunification, was ordered as an advance reconnaissance of the ciyt in anticipation of revolutionary and terroristic activity. The three villages, in particular Kalikata, where Calcutta is located, came into the possession of the British East India Company in 1690, when they established a trading factory on the shores of the Hooghly River. To defend against French and indigenous rivalries, the EIC began constructing Fort William in 1689 - marking the beginnings of Calcutta as a major city. Calcutta became the capital of British India in 1772 and remained so until 1911, when this map was first issued. In 1912, the date of this issue, the capital of British India was moved to New Delhi, but Calcutta remained the capital of Bengal until independence in 1947. This map was first issued by Sidney Gerald Burrard and the Survey of India in 1911. The present example is the second edition, with updates to 1912. Other later editions are known, including one from 1919 and a 50% reduced variant in 1925. While 1911 appears on the map as the date of the first issue, we have been unable to identify any surviving examples with this imprint - the present map being the earliest known surviving example of this important map. The map was both engraved and published at the Survey of India offices in Calcutta. We are aware of one other example (1919 edition) in private hands, and a further 4 examples in institutional collections, including the archives of the University of Oxford, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and Zentralbibliothek Zürich. No surviving examples of the 1911 first edition are known. No other examples of the 1912 edition, as here, are known. Sidney Gerald Burrard (August 12, 1860 - March 16, 1943) was a British Baronet and army officer who served as the Survey General of India. Burrard was born on the Isle of Wright at his hereditary estate, The Mount. He studied at Lymington and then Uppingham School where he exhibited a proficiently at mathematics. From 1874 he attended Wellington College from whence his mathematical talents earned him an April 6, 1879 commission in the Royal Engineers. As part of the Royal Engineers he studied at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham. Completing his education he was dispatched to India in 1992 to join the Bengal Sappers and Miner at Roorkee. He accompanied the 1884 Zhob Valley Expedition to Baluchistan. Also in 1884, he joined the Survey of India where his worked focused on correcting triangulation errors. He severed for a time in the Red Sea before becoming Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey of India in 1889. In 1908 he was promoted to Surveyor General. He was honored as a Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) in 1911, and promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in 1914. In 1913 he received the Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographical Society. Burrard retired from military life in 1919. He succeeded to his family Baronetcy in 1933. After his second wife died in 1938, he fell into despondency and died in 1943. Survey of India (1767 - Present) is India's central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying the country. It was founded in 1767 by Major James Rennell, who took the post of first Surveyor General, with the mission to map and consolidate the territories of the British East India Company. The Survey undertook the Great Trigonometrical Survey between 1802 and 1852 in an attempt to accurately measure the Indian Subcontinent - considered one of the greatest feats of mapping of all time. It also sponsored clandestine survey times, disguised as Buddhist pilgrims, to infiltrate and map Tibet, then a closed country. With India's independence in 1947, the Survey was folded into the new Indian government, which it remains part of to this day." (Geographicus)
Calcutta (Docks).
France. Ministère des t...
Calcutta (Docks).
1890
14306.151
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[France. Ministère des travaux publics. Administration des routes, France. Direction des cartes, plans et archives et de la statistique graphique, École nationale des ponts et chaussées (France)]
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Calcutta (Docks). 6e Série. Pl. VIII. Ministère des Travaux Publics. Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées. Lith. A. Simon, 13, R. du Val-de-Grâce. Paris.
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14306.151
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Map showing the port of Calcutta, India, in 1890. Features railways, streets, bridges, canals, drainage and docks. Includes a bar scale and compass rose, with north oriented toward top of sheet. Descriptive text throughout. Lithograph in black, white and blue. With inset map: [Auckland and vicinity]. Together, maps are 39 x 24 cm, on fold-out sheet 24 x 25 cm. Appears in Sixième livraison.
Calcutta.
Society for the Diffusi...
Calcutta.
1842
0890.168
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Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
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Calcutta. Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London, published by Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand, Novr. 1842. (1844)
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0890.168
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Engraved map. Hand col. Includes inset views: Writers Buildings -- Government House -- Esplanade Row.
Calcutta and environs. Plate 37
Bartholomew, J. G. (Joh...
Calcutta and environs. ...
1893
11794.042
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Bartholomew, J. G. (John George), 1860-1920
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Calcutta and environs. Plate 37. The Edinburgh Geographical Institute. Copyright John Bartholmew & Co. (to accompany) Constable's Hand Atlas of India : a new series of sixty maps and plans ... J. G. Batholomew ... Westminster : Archibald Constable & Company, MDCCCXCIII (1893).
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11794.042
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Color map of Calcutta and surroundings. Showing towns, roads, forests, port cities, rivers and canals.
Calcutta. Plate 38
Bartholomew, J. G. (Joh...
Calcutta. Plate 38
1893
11794.043
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Bartholomew, J. G. (John George), 1860-1920
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Calcutta. Plate 38. The Edinburgh Geographical Institute. Copyright John Bartholmew & Co. (to accompany) Constable's Hand Atlas of India : a new series of sixty maps and plans ... J. G. Batholomew ... Westminster : Archibald Constable & Company, MDCCCXCIII (1893).
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11794.043
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Color plan of the city of Calcutta. Showing city blocks, streets, parks, post office, police stations, fortress, rivers and canals. Includes reference to landmarks, office buildings, museums and theaters.
Calcutta
Church Missionary Socie...
Calcutta
1862
13242.035
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Church Missionary Society.
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Calcutta. (to accompany)The Church missionary atlas :.. Third edition. London : Published for the Society, by Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday. 1862.
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13242.035
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Color map. Shows buildings, landmarks, roads, forts, churches and rivers. Stations of the Church Missionary Society are underlined in red. Includes reference.
No. 47A. Peking. Kalkutta
Sydow, Emil von., 1812-...
No. 47A. Peking. Kalkut...
1943
13558.124
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[Sydow, Emil von., 1812-1873, Wagner, Hermann, 1840-1929]
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Peking. Kalkutta. Innerasien, Indien, China. Gotha : Justus Perthes. Sydow-Wagners method. Schul-Atlas. XXII.
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13558.124
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2 city plans on 1 sheet.
No. 47A. Peking. Kalkutta
Sydow, Emil von., 1812-...
No. 47A. Peking. Kalkut...
1944
13559.130
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[Sydow, Emil von., 1812-1873, Wagner, Hermann, 1840-1929]
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Peking. Kalkutta. Gotha : Justus Perthes. Sydow-Wagners method. Schul-Atlas. XXIII.
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13559.130
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2 city plans on 1 sheet.
172. Pendzhab, Kal'kutta, Bombey
Baranov, Anatolij Nikol...
172. Pendzhab, Kal'kutt...
1954
13682.184
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[Baranov, Anatolij Nikolaevič, Soviet Union. Glavnoe upravlenie geodezii i kartografii]
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Пенджаб, Калькутта, Бомбей = Pendzhab, Kal'kutta , Bombey. Atlas Mira : 1954. .
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13682.184
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3 city maps on 1 sheet. Including Punjab, Calcutta and Bombay. Relief shown by gradient tints, contours and spot heights. Depth shown by bathymetric tints, isolines and soundings.
Calcutta, (1880). (Indes).
France. Ministère des t...
Calcutta, (1880). (Inde...
1886
14306.150
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[France. Ministère des travaux publics. Administration des routes, France. Direction des cartes, plans et archives et de la statistique graphique, École nationale des ponts et chaussées (France)]
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Calcutta, (1880). (Indes). 6e Série. Pl. VII. Ministère des Travaux Publics. Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées. Lith. A. Simon, 13, R. du Val-de-Grâce. Paris.
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14306.150
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Map showing the port of Calcutta, India, in 1880. Divided into two sections on one sheet. Features streets, bridges, drainage, docks and soundings, with depths given in meters. Includes a bar scale and compass rose, with north oriented toward top and top-right of sheet, respectively. Descriptive text throughout. Lithograph in black, white and blue. Together, maps are 30 x 76 cm, on fold-out sheet 33 x 80 cm. Bookplate title pasted to verso: Pl. VII. Calcutta. Appears in Sixième livraison.
136. Punjab. Calcutta. Bombay. The World Atlas.
USSR (Union of Soviet S...
136. Punjab. Calcutta. ...
1967
1603.147
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USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
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136. Punjab. Calcutta. Bombay. The World Atlas.
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1603.147
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City vicinity maps at scale 1:250,000.
Calcutta, India
Cram, George; Wood Brot...
Calcutta, India
1893
1773.122
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[Cram, George, Wood Brothers]
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Calcutta (India). (to accompany) The Columbian World's Fair atlas ... Published for: Wood Brothers Cash Store ... Unadilla, New York.
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1773.122
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Detailed color map. Shows roads, prominent buildings, monuments, forts, etc.
Cities, costumes.
Goodrich, S.G.
Cities, costumes.
1831
2468.005
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Cities. Ispahan, Calcutta, Pekin. (Costumes) N. American Indians, Nootka Sound Indians, Mexican, English, Austrians, Spaniards. (Boston: Gray & Bowen ... 1831)
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2468.005
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Nine illustrations on 2 pages.
Calcutta.
Letts, Son & Co.
Calcutta.
1883
5371.094
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Letts, Son & Co.
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Plan of the city of Calcutta. Letts's popular atlas. Letts, Son & Co. Limited, London. (1883)
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5371.094
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Colored map. Shows buildings (with key), Fort William, Race Ground, canals, railroads, etc.
Calcutta (Kolkata). Madras (Chennai). Bombay (Mumbai). Aden. Perim.
W. & A.K. Johnston Limi...
Calcutta (Kolkata). Mad...
1906
6921.083
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W. & A.K. Johnston Limited
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Calcutta and Environs. Madras and Environs. Bombay Island and Town. Aden. Perim.
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6921.083
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