This is a lovely example of the 1854 Pharoah and Company map of the District of Mergui in Burma (Myanmar). Corresponding to part of the modern day southern Tanintharyi Region, the map covers the region in beautiful detail, noting important towns, rivers, mountains, caves, and beautifully rendered vegetation.
The regions south of the Salween or Thanlwin river was annexed by the British following the First Anglo-Burmese War in 1826 and included the Tenasserim province which at the time consisted of modern day Mon State, Kayin State, the Taungoo District, and Tanintharyi Region. The district of Mergui included the Mergui Archipelago consisting of over 800 islands. Most of the islands are identified in this map.
This map was engraved by J. and C. Walker and issued as plate no. 44 by Pharoah and Company in their 1854 Atlas of Southern India.
Source
Pharoah and Company, An Atlas of the Southern Part of India including Plans of all the Principal Towns and Cantonments, reduced from the Grand Trigonometrical Survey of India shewing also The Tenasserim Provinces, (Madras) 1854.
The Pharoah and Company Atlas of Southern India was published around 1854. The medium format 4to atlas contained some 70 maps focusing on the southern part of Indian and the Tanasserium Province, or Burma. The atlas was engraved an printed in London by J. and C. Walker, but seems to have been issued only in Madras, India, by J. B. Pharoah and Company. The atlas claims to have been "reduced from the Grand Trigonometrical Survey of India," and, in fact the survey did provide a framework for the atlas, but little of the actual cartographic detail. The atlas is rather novel in that it has universal scale of 16 miles to the inch (1 : 1013760) for most of its regional maps. In addition to its regional maps, the atlas also contained 21city plans. These plans are some of the only obtainable mid-195h century maps of many South Indian cities. It also contained a rare map of Singapore.
Very good. Minor foxing. Minor wear along original fold line.
OCLC: 711966872.