Historic Map : Survey Book, Geometrical projection of two third of the sphere 1857 - Vintage Wall Art

Historic Map : Survey Book, Geometrical projection of two third of the sphere 1857 - Vintage Wall ArtGeometrical projection of two third of the sphere by Lieut. Colonel H. James, R. E., F. R. S. M. R. I. A. &c. Engraved at the Ordnance Survey Map Office Southampton, 1857 from a reduction made by photography. (insets) Projection of Central Station ; Projection of Central Meridian Station. (to accompany) Report on the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom for 1855 56. (with) Ordnance Survey. Treasury minute, dated 18 May 1855, and previous papers,

Geometrical projection of two third of the sphere by Lieut. Colonel H. James, R.E., F.R.S. M.R.I.A. &c. ... Engraved at the Ordnance Survey Map Office Southampton, 1857 from a reduction made by photography. (insets) Projection of Central Station ; Projection of Central Meridian Station. (to accompany) Report on the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom for 1855-56. (with) Ordnance Survey. Treasury minute, dated 18 May 1855, and previous papers, relating to the Ordnance Survey. Session 1856. | Ordnance Survey. Treasury minute, dated 18 May 1855, and previous papers, relating to the Ordnance Survey. (Presented to Parliament by Her Majesty's Command.) Session 1856. (with) Report on the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom for 1855-56. (Signed) Henry James, Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Engineers. | Two papers bound in one volume, 19 & 27 pages, 28 maps (some color) and plans. With 15 page manuscript notice demonstrating different printing methods: electrotype, photographic reduction, hill sketching, hill shading, engraving, lithography, zincography, and anastatic process. And 10 pages of insert at the end of volume. Includes indexes to the Ordnance Surveys of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Bound in brown covers measuring 32.5x22, with "Report of the Ordnance Survey -- 1855-56." stamped in gold on the black leather spine. Treasury minute includes memorandum by Sir Charles Trevelyan, Lord Elcho, and Sir Henry James. Inside front cover: page signed by Henry James, L'General ... 1875. We have two copies of this volume and have combined variant images from both.

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