1854 Pharoah and Company Map of the District of Trichinopoly, Tamil Nadu, India

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1854 Pharoah and Company Map of the District of Trichinopoly, Tamil Nadu, India

DistrictTrichinopoly-pharoah-1854

Map of the Trichinopoly district in British India.
$250.00

Title


District of Trichinopoly.
  1854 (undated)     10.5 x 8.5 in (26.67 x 21.59 cm)     1 : 1013760

Description


This is a nice example of the 1854 map of the District of Trichinopoly in the modern day state of Tamil Nadu, India, issued by Pharoah and Company. It covers from Karur east to Chidambaram. Includes important towns, roads, lakes, rivers and topography.

The district was part of the Madras Presidency when India was under British Rule and was one of the oldest inhabited regions in southern India, dating back to the Stone Age. Uraiyar, a suburb of the modern day city of Trichinopoly (renamed Tiruchirappalli after independence) was the capital of the Early Chola Dynasty.

This map was engraved by J. and C. Walker and issued as plate no. 4 by Pharoah and Company in their 1854 Atlas of Southern India.

CartographerS


J. B. Pharoah (fl. c. 1838 – 1869) was a Madras, India, based bookseller and publisher of educational books and map active in the middle of the 19th century. He maintained a bookshop on Mount Road. The form was a general emporium for European published work. They also published a weekly English language newspaper called The Athenaeum and Statesman (in 1864 renamed, he Athenaeum and Daily News). They also published the The Madras Quarterly Medical Journal and The Madras Journal of Literature and Science. Little more is known of Pharoah. More by this mapmaker...


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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: 710807643.