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A mileage table, top right, has been coloured so that it can be read to show distances from either Delhi or Calcutta, and there is a wealth of practical information printed in the borders.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis map was compiled with the help of Robert Melville Grindlay, a retired army officer with extensive banking and travel interests in the Subcontinent.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur example belonged to Lieutenant (later Captain) William Hodges Tylden Pattensen (1822-1894), who spent 8 years in India with the 25th Regiment of Foot, returning to England in 1852. He then married Eliza, daughter of the Rev. James Boys, who was Rector of Biddenden, Kent, for 40 years until his death in 1882; the couple settled nearby. Pattenson’s father was a veteran of the Light Division in the Peninsular War, and other family members also served in the military.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEngraved folding map, sheet size 100 x 67 cm, original hand colour, dissected into 24 panels, toning to bottom right panel (presumably mis-folded at some point in the past), lacks slip-case. Ownership inscription of Lt. Pattenson, H.M. 25th Regiment, on printed advertisement label to verso.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bryars \u0026 Bryars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45119011586263,"sku":"9823","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2550\/1126\/files\/9823.jpg?v=1715956068"},{"product_id":"great-rebellion-era-map-of-india","title":"Great Rebellion Era Map of India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMap of India and Birmah\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis map of India and Burma features an inset location map with British possessions coloured red, next to a distance table showing the overland route to India (pioneered by Thomas Fletcher Waghorn in the 1830s). The Indian Rebellion of 1857 broke out on 10 May. The underlinings and other markings on this map suggest its owner was following events from home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur example is undated, but in the imprint Wyld styles himself ‘Geographer to the Queen \u0026amp; Prince Consort’, a title which Albert was granted formally in June 1857; Wyld also includes his ‘model of the earth’ as one of his addresses. His ‘Great Globe’ occupied the centre of Leicester Square between 1851 and 1862.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrevious owner the Rev. James Boys was Rector of Biddenden, Kent, for 40 years until his death in 1882. In 1854 his daughter Eliza married Captain William Hodges Tylden Pattensen, who had spent 8 years in India with the 25th Regiment of Foot, returning to England in 1852. Pattenson (1822-1894) belonged to a military family, and Boys therefore had an informed interest.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e   \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEngraved folding map, sheet size 51 x 70 cm, original hand. colour, dissected into 21 panels and laid on linen, contemporary ink underlining and small annotations, folding into green cloth covers with printed paper label. Contemporary ownership inscription of J. Boys, Biddenden, dated August 10 1857.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReferences\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWorldcat locates 3 similar examples: 1857 edition: OCLC: 557736421 (BL); OCLC: 750507292 (NUKAT - Polish libraries); another edition dated to 1855: OCLC: \u003ca href=\"tel:1293968987\"\u003e1293968987\u003c\/a\u003e (Berlin).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Bryars \u0026 Bryars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45119016698071,"sku":"9824","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2550\/1126\/files\/9824.jpg?v=1715954295"},{"product_id":"bertius-miniature-map-of-gujarat-and-northern-india","title":"Bertius' Miniature map of Gujarat and Northern India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis miniature map of Gujarat and northern India was published in one of the earlier editions of Bertius’ \u003ci\u003eTabularum Geographicarum Contractum\u003c\/i\u003e issued between 1598 and1612. The plates were entirely renewed for the 1616 edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCopper engraving, printed area measures 12.7 x 8.9 cm. Modern hand-colour, short closed tear, Latin text on verso\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bryars \u0026 Bryars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55389007413630,"sku":"9900","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2550\/1126\/files\/9900.jpg?v=1744121333"},{"product_id":"the-malayan-emergency","title":"Malayan Emergency Map","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis map of Malaya has an inset regional map locating Malaya\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003ein the context of ‘adjacent terrritories’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA previous owner of this, map Lieutenant David H. Fielding, served in the Royal Hampshire Regiment with Malaya Command during the Malayan Emergency, 1953-56 (a National Service Commission; he was awarded the ‘Malaya’ bar with his GSM).\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFielding went on to read geography at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1956-59, and in 1960 served a tour with the Colonial Service as a District Officer in North Borneo (immediately before independence, experiences he recounted in a published work, \u003ci\u003eBorneo - Jewel in a Jade Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e). For most of his subsequent teaching career he was Head of Geology at Radley College.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFolding map of Malaya, sheet size 92 x 72 cm. Printed in colours, with ownership signature of D.H. Fielding. Laid on linen, folds into blue cloth covers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bryars \u0026 Bryars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55389129539966,"sku":"9920","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2550\/1126\/files\/9920.jpg?v=1744121796"},{"product_id":"sduk-map-of-calcutta","title":"SDUK Map of Calcutta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis map of Calcutta includes inset views of the Writers’ Buildings, Government House and Esplanade Row.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCalcutta expanded rapidly under the Governor-Generalship of Wellesley at the beginning of the nineteenth-century. By the time our map was engraved, Calcutta was considered the second city of the Empire, boasting public architecture which led to the further epithet: ‘City of Palaces’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of making 'useful' information available to self-taught members of the working and lower middle classes (and possibly to steer them away from anything politically controversial or less improving…).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSome of the material was decidedly abstruse, subscribers fell away and the Society was wound up in 1848; however, the series of 209 maps published over a 14 year period from 1829 onwards were highly praised for their superior quality, accuracy and aesthetic appeal and remain an outstanding achievement.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Materials\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSteel engraving, sheet size 34 x 40.5 cm. Original hand colour, left hand margin cut close as usual (this is one of the larger single-page plates in the series), blank verso.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bryars \u0026 Bryars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55389258350974,"sku":"9934","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2550\/1126\/files\/9934.jpg?v=1744210537"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2550\/1126\/collections\/ASC_ct.jpg?v=1628603042","url":"https:\/\/bryarsandbryars.co.uk\/collections\/asia-south-central.oembed?page=2","provider":"Bryars \u0026 Bryars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}