Saunders, Trelawney; An Atlas of India. Twelve Maps with Tables and Notes. Illustrating the Mountain and River Systems; the Irrigation; Civil Divisions, Population, and Languages; Railways, Roads, Telegraphs, Post Offices, Ports, etc., Military Commands and Posts; Famines; Meteorology; Crops; Forests; and One-Inch Surveys. Accompanied with Tables and Notes. London, Edward Stanford, 1889. Folio, pp. 37, a large folded colored map of India and 11 colored double page maps.
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The atlas is complete and in the original cloth with a linen spine and gilt titles. Light soiling to spine, inner spine edges nicely re-enforced, theology seminary embossed stamp on title page. The maps are very clean with archival re-enforcement on verso of the large map. In very good condition.
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Saunders atlas is quite rare. It was first issued in a much smaller size as part of a Parliamentary Paper in 1885 and then as the 1889 stand alone folio atlas. Besides the large map of India, the other maps include a map of the rivers, river basins and irrigation works; a map of India’s population distribution, a map of the prevailing languages and dialects, a map of the railways, roads and trade routes, telegraph lines, sea-ports, light houses and light-ships; a military map of divisional and district commands, a map of the famines in the past century, a meteorological map, a crop map, a map of the distribution of forests, and a revenue survey map.