Posted on: 18 September 2011

Digital Rare Book :
Handbook of the Bengal Presidency with an account of Calcutta city with maps and plans.
By Edward B. Eastwick
Published by John Murray, London - 1882

Image :
Map of Calcutta, 1858
Map of Calcutta from actual survey in the years 1847-1849 / by Frederick Walter Simms ; the suburbs of the town are from surveys subsequently furnished by Major H.L. Thuillier ; executed by himself & Captain R. Smyth ; reduced and engraved by J. and C. Walker.

Source : David Rumsey Map Collection


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Read Book Online : http://www.archive.org/stream/handbookbengalp00firgoog#page/n10/mode/2up

Download pdf Book : http://ia600308.us.archive.org/17/items/handbookbengalp00firgoog/handbookbengalp00firgoog.pdf

Calcutta 1858A very detailed map of Calcutta made from surveys taken from 1847 to 1849. Shows private and public buildings, temples, aqueducts, and ground levels above the tide. Revised to 1857. Interestingly interposed with the Google map of Calcutta : http://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/gct001429a.html