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- [Srinagar] Kashmīr & Jammu. / 1:63.360. / Kashmir North (Bāramūla), Kashmir South (Anantnāg) / No. 43 J16.
- 550.00€
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- Srinagar, Kashmir, India / Indian Urbanism / Calcutta Imprint An extremely rare map of Srinagar and environs, the capital of Kashmir and famed as one of the most beautiful places in the world, the map full of intriguing cultural details, published in Calcutta by the Survey of India. Colour heliozincograph (Very Good, clean and bright with attractive colours,…
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- AGRA, INDIA: Agra Guide Map.
- 400.00€
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- A very rare ‘Restricted’ map of Agra made during World War II, when the city was feared to be a target of Japanese bombing, such that the dome of the Taj Majal was covered in camouflage, published in Dehra Dun by the Survey of India. Colour print (Good, some wear along old folds, some conspicuous toning to lower…
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- Asia, Central Asia, China, India, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020, South-East Asia
- ASIA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آسيا [Asya]
- 320.00€
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- 8°. 15-21 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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- Bombay (Mumbai), India: Map of Bombay and Twenty Miles Around.
- 1,400.00€
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- A rare, large format map depicting Greater Bombay just before World War I, when it was one of the busiest ports in the world and the ‘Gateway of India’, drafted by the office of the ‘Times of India’ and published in London by the venerable firm of Edward Stanford. Colour lithograph, mounted upon original linen, folding, contemporary hand-stamp…
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- CALCUTTA – FIREFIGHTING: The Town and Suburbs of Calcutta (including Howrah) / Map Illustrating the Annual Report of the Calcutta Fire Brigade showing the Positions of Fires, Fire Stations etc. during the Year ended March 31st 1913.
- 1,600.00€
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- An extremely rare, large format map of Calcutta, depicting the revolutionary fire prevention and control infrastructure devised by its new Fire Chief, Bernard Westbrook, giving the city one of the most advanced fire systems in Asia, saving untold lives and properties. Zincograph in colours by the Vandyke Process, mounted upon original linen and folding into original black cloth…
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- DABHOL, India: Dabul
- 120.00€
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- Early Automotive Map / Madras Imprint: Map of the Madras Presidency. Showing the Roads & Distances.
- 550.00€
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- Very Rare – an attractive, large format work that represents one of the earliest automotive maps of the Madras Presidency (today’s Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh), showing roads fit for cars and gas stations, created from the best sources at the Madras Survey Office under the supervision of the Tamil cartographer, Rao Bahadur M. Raman Avargal. Heliozincograph…
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- GOA: Gezigt von Goa
- 150.00€
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- INDIA – BOMBAY / POONA REGION, MAHARASHTRA: Bombay / Deccan States. / Poona & Bombay / Bombay City, Bombay Suburban, Kolāba, Poona, Ratnāgiri, Sātāra & Thāna Districts, Bhor & Janjīra States.
- 350.00€
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- A very rare scientific survey of the crucial Bombay-Poona (Mumbai-Pune) corridor, issued by the Survey of India in Dehra Dun just after World War II and in the twilight days of the British Raj; showcasing a wealth of information on urban development in one of India’s fastest growing regions at critical historical juncture.
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- India, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- INDIA – HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Municipal Survey Map.
- 2,000.00€
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- Extremely rare – no other examples traced – the authoritative city plan of Hyderabad created in the twilight days of Mir Osman Ali Khan’s transformative rule when the city was one of India’s leaders in urban planning and industrial modernization, the result of over a generation of ultra-advanced, continuously updated surveys made under the direction of the…
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- India, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- INDIA – SATARA DISTRICT MAHARASHTRA: Map of the Satara Territory, Shewing the Territories of the Jageerdars and that Lapsed to the British Government. Scale Six Miles to an Inch. Compiled in the Quarter Master General’s Office from Maps received from the Political Secretary to Government and other Sources in the Office.
- 650.00€
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- A sophisticated topographical map, of charmingly crude ‘provincial’ printing style, of the strategically key district of Satara, in today’s southwestern Maharashtra, expressly made for the British colonial regime to depict the recent developments in local administration, but to also satisfy important military and infrastructure mandates; created by J.W. Windsor of the Quarter Master General’s Department (Bombay Army), and printed…
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- INDIA (NORTHERN) / PAKISTAN / BANGLADESH: Vicariati e prefetture Apostoliche nell’ Indostan.
- 1,500.00€
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- Extremely Rare – a pair of large-format maps respectively depicting Northern and Southern India, featuring the ecclesiastical divisions of the Roman Catholic on the subcontinent, prepared for the Vatican’s State Secretariat by Girolamo Petri, issued within his monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’.
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- INDIA / BURMA: 國帝度印 [The British Raj].
- 650.00€
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- A rare large format Japanese map of India and Burma, ‘pirated’ from a British map by the venerable bookseller Maruzen, issued during the height of World War II, as Japan conquered Burma and before its (ultimately ill-fated) invasion of India during ‘Operation U-Go’ (1944). Colour print, folding into original printed paper sleeve (Very Good, some toning along old…
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- INDIA: Map of India Constructed with Great Care and Research from all the Latest Authorities and intended more particularly to facilitate a reference to the Civil and Military Stations. Dedicated to Sir James Rivett Carnac, Bart. …Arranged under the direc
- 1,200.00€
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- A fine early, edition of example of James Wyld’s highly important wall map of India, made under the direction of the artist and banker Robert Melville Grindlay, attractively mounted in wall map format with rollers.
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- Ottoman Cartography / Asia: يكى اسيا [Yeni Asya / New Asia]
- 1,400.00€
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- A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Asia, that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major Asia and Middle Eastern states. Colour lithograph, 61 x 92 cm (soft folds with tiny tears and holes, small tears…
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- PASSAGE TO INDIA / THEMATIC MAPPING / INDIAN OCEAN / HYDROLOGY / IMPORTANT ENLIGHTENMENT CARTOGRAPHY: Carte du Sisteme des Courants des Mers de l’Inde dans le Tems de la Mousson du N.E. au N. de la Ligne. Publiée par le Vicomte Grenier.
- 750.00€
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- Highly Important and Rare – a great monument of Enlightenment Era thematic cartography - Vicomte Grenier’s of sea chart showcasing his new, faster sailing routes across the Indian Ocean, discoveries which revolutionized European-Asian transportation and geopolitics.
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- Punjab. / Scale 1/1,000,000.
- 1,200.00€
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- A stellar example of the extremely rare, large format official map of Punjab issued in Calcutta by the Survey of India at the beginning of the last generation of the British Raj; predicated upon the latest scientific surveys, it grants an unparalleled overview over what was one of India’s largest, wealthiest and most culturally important provinces. Heliozincograph in…
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- The Calcutta Journal, or, Political, Commercial, and Literary Gazette, vol. III, no. 71.
- 1,200.00€
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- [Including the Maps:] Sketch of the positions taken up before the Fort of Nowah 1819 and Plan & Sketch of the Fort of Nowah 1819. An important issue of ‘The Calcutta Journal’, one of the highest quality, most influential and controversial newspapers in India of the first third of the 19th century, notably featuring an authoritative and detailed eyewitness…
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