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Title(s)
Overland route to India [cartographic material] / the map drawn & engraved by J. Rapkin ; the illustrations by H. Warren & engraved by J.H. Kernot.
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Published/Created
London ; New York : John Tallis & Company, [1851]
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Physical Description
2 maps on 1 sheet : color ; maps 14.8 x 21.6 and 13.6 x 22 cm, on sheet 37 x 26 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2015 3o
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972
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Classification
Maps & Atlas (printed)
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Scale
Scale [ca. 1:21,000,000] -- (W 11°--E 40°/N 58°--N 27°).
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Notes
The first map shows routes from London to the Red Sea: the mail steam packet route; the Marseilles overland routes; the German overland route; and the Euphrates route. Each route is delineated in a different color . The second map shows routes from the Red Sea to Bombay or Colombo and then Calcutta and also a route from Cyprus to the Persian Gulf and Bombay. Also included are vignettes along the margins featuring Post Office, London; Gibraltar; Malta; Suez; Aden; Madras; and Bombay. Relief is shown by hachures.
Prime meridian: Greenwich.
From p. [30]: Tallis's illustrated atlas and modern history of the world : geographical, political, commercial and statistical / edited by R. Montgomery Martin. London ; New York : John Tallis & Co., 1851. -
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