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WILLIAM WILSON HUNTER

ATLAS OF INDIA CONTAINING SIXTEEN MAPS AND COMPLETE INDEX, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR W W HUNTER, K.C.S.I


Estimate: Rs 80,000-Rs 1,00,000 ( $1,030-$1,285 )


Atlas of India containing sixteen maps and complete index, with an introduction by Sir W W Hunter, K.C.S.I


William Wilson Hunter, Atlas of India containing sixteen maps and complete index, with an introduction by Sir W W Hunter, K.C.S.I, London: W & A K Johnston, 1894

pp.vi + 38 pages including 1 colour frontispiece (index map) + 16 maps + 20 index pages at the end along with marble end papers; cloth mount with intricately ornamented cover
12 x 8.5 in (30.6 x 21.5 cm)

A very scarce first edition of this sought after atlas looking in depth at the geography of India. With an introduction by Sir William Wilson Hunter, a Scottish Historian, a member of the Indian Civil Service. He is best known for 'The Imperial Gazetteer of India', a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire.

A collection of maps of India, being an atlas showing Lower Bengal, North-West Provinces, Oudh, and Nepal, East Punjab and Kashmir, West Punjab, British Baluchistan, and North-Western Frontier, Rajputana and Ajmer-Merwara, Central India, Central Provinces, Hyderabad and Berar, North Bombay and Baroda, South Bombay, South Madra, Mysore and Coorg, North Madras, South Orissa, and Ceylon, North British Burma, Assam and Manipur, South British Burma, Andaman, Nicobar Islands, and plans of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay.

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