Historical Records of the Survey of India.

£2,750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Presentation copies, Phillimore has inscribed volumes 1 (“To my fellow members of the United Service Club”) and Vol 3. (“With the Author’s Compliments”). Volume 2 has the R.U.S.I. label noted in ms. “Presented by Colonel Phillimore*.*” This famous work of scholarship is an invaluable source for the cartographic history of India. In particular it has biographies of all the principal surveyors, chapters on instrumentation etc.

• Year: 1945

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