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RYDER, Colonel C.H.D.

Calcutta and Surrounding Country.

Calcutta and Surrounding Country.

Surveyed 1918-22.

Stock Code 121421

Calcutta, Survey of India Offices, 1933.

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Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder (1868–1945) was a distinguished British Army officer and explorer who served as the Surveyor General of India from 1919 to 1924, a role based in Calcutta.

The second edition includes additions such as the magnetic declination. Scarce, with only 2 copies of this edition in UK institutions (Cambridge and Oxford), and not in BL.

Second edition; heliozincographed colour map, dissected and mounted on linen in 36 segments, scale 1 inch to the mile, full size 69 x 105 cm, folding into original blue cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering, a very good copy.

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