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1854 Pharoah and Company Map of the Travancore and Cochin States, Kerala, India

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1854 Pharoah and Company Map of the Travancore and Cochin States, Kerala, India

TravancoreCochin-pharoah-1854

Map of the states of Cochin and Travancore in British India.

Title


Travancore and Cochin States.
  1854 (undated)     13.5 x 9 in (34.29 x 22.86 cm)     1 : 1013760

Description


This is an uncommon 1854 map of the Travancore and Cochin States in the modern day state of Kerala, India. Issued by Pharoah and Company, it covers from Cape Cormorin (Kanyakumari) north along the western coast to Ponany (Ponnani). Includes important towns, roads, lakes, rivers and topography. Cochin city (Kochi) is identified.

Travancore was a Kingdom before it became a princely state of British India in the early 19th century. Cochin, also a Kingdom of the Chera Empire became a Portuguese protectorate in 1503. It later became part of the Dutch East India Company in 1663 and the East India Company in the 19th century. It is now part of the state of Kerala.

This map was engraved by J. and C. Walker and issued as plate no. 5 by Pharoah and Company in their 1854 Atlas of Southern India.

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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.

Condition


Very good. Minor foxing.

References


OCLC: 710980991.