John Walker

A British map of India by John Walker.

• John Walker (British).
• Map of India Shewing the British Territories and those of the Native States, Chiefly compiled from Trigonometrical Surveys Executed by order of the Hon.ble Court of Directors of the East India Company, by John Walker, Geographer to the East India Company.
• London: John Walker, 1852.
• Fine original color.
• Two sheets, laid on linen as issued, folded into its original tan morocco slipcase, gilt labeled on edge.

A large and superbly detailed map of India in fine original color, also showing Nepal, Bhutan and Burma, as wells as part of Afghanistan. British possessions are marked in red and independent states in green, with regions of our colors 'under British Protection'. The map was based on the East India Company's 'Great Trigonometrical Survey', begun in 1802, and was published only five years before the Indian Rebellion of 1857 caused the nationalization of the Company by the British government