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British Library : India Office Records atlases & gazetteers
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British Library : 19th century European sheet maps
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British Library : Ministry of Defense maps
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1840-1935In 1853, Basil Jackson, a graduate of the British Royal Military College who had served twenty years as a field engineer and taught military surveying at the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe, published the fourth edition of his Treatise on Military Surveying. "Military surveying, " he said, is the "art of describing the face of country with reference to its capacity for warlike operations." In general, he argued, "it should abound in details, and be extremely minute and particular respecting mountains and their passes; points at which a river or morass may be crossed; localities offering military positions; nature of forests, " (p. 1). The sections of his book summarize the instruments and methods available to mid-century military mapping: "On Military Sketching with the Prismatic Compass, " "On Surveying with the Theodolite, " "On Levelling, " "Military Reconnoissance [sic], " and "Tables for Computing Altitudes, from Observations with the Mountain Barometer." Reflecting the already extensive global responsibilities of the British military, he noted that it mattered not whether the war was to be fought in a "semi-barbarous country" or in Europe, where there were to be found authoritative maps and statistical reports: in either case, a particular knowledge would have to be acquired on the ground through military reconnaissance. Such reconnaissance necessarily included places where combatants could ford rivers, move artillery over bridges, avoid unsurpassable obstacles, anticipate fortifications, commandeer the heights, secure food and water, find lumber for construction, and so on. The maps accumulated by the Ministry of Defence and selected for this cartographic survey of the long nineteenth century include maps and plans created by the most sophisticated cartographers with the greatest corporate and governmental institutional support and hand-drawn sketches rapidly drafted in secret in preparation for combat. They will be of great interest to scholars tracing the development of skills in the accuracy and conventions of topographical mapmaking, to students of the major conflicts in which Britain was engaged between 1780 and the end of the First World War, and to those mainly interested in the relationship of mapmaking to national and ethnic identity formation
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A topographical map of the northn. part of New York Island : exhibiting the plan of Fort Washington, now Fort Knyphausen, shewing the several attacks of the Royal army
Sauthier, Claude Joseph1793Relief shown by hachures. Includes descriptive index. In upper right margin: to face page 210, vol. I. "Published April 12th, 1793." Probably issue...
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A new map of Italy distinguishing all the sovereignties in it, whether states, kingdoms, dutchies, principalities, republicks &c. With the post roads, and many remarks not extant in any map. According to ye newest and most exact observations
Moll, Herman, -17321730Relief shown pictorially. Insets: Caesium -- Mont Vesuvius -- Mount Aetna or Mongibello in Siciliy. "Note: the post roads in this map are taken fro...
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The south part of Great Britain, called, England and Wales : containing all ye cities, market towns, boroughs: and whatever places have ye election of members of parliament with ye names of ye rivers, seaports, sands, hills, moors, forests &c. All ye great or post roads, and principal cross roads &c. with ye computed miles from town to town and all ye post towns as they are at present regulated by the Postmasters Genl. of the General Post House according to ye most approved surveys and accurate observations
Moll, Herman, d. 17321730Relief shown pictorially. Advertisement. Having perused Mr. Ogilby's most useful survey of ye roads of south Britain, with his description of its r...
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