Gore R E Major (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Colour paper panorama with insets 79 x 58cm folding in original Survey of India wraps 14 x 22cm with ink-stamped title to the front and information on how to obtain their maps to the back. Drawn by Major St. G. Gore, Royal Engineers, 28th November 1887, printed at the Survey of India Offices (P.L.O.) Calcutta, and published under the direction of Colonel H.R. Thuillier R.E., Surveyor General, August 1889. Panorama and wraps near fine, neatly folded, lightly tanned with some marks. Rare - 3 copies on Worldcat and Jisc (British Library, Oxford University, University of Indiana). Divided into Western and Eastern portions, this shows the view from Hill Station Mussoorie-Landour (No. 1 H.S.) in the Lower Western Himalayas' Mussoorie Range, from the Trans-Sutlej Peaks to Nanda Devi, naming peaks, passes, temples etc with their heights in feet and distances in miles. A b/w inset map with colour cross-section locates the Hill Station in relation to Dehra Dun and Simla, showing the scope of the survey. Major St George Corbet Gore (1849-1913) was at this time Deputy Superintendent of trigonometrical surveys in Dehra Dun. He had served in the great trigonometrical survey of India, Second Anglo-Afghan War, and Afghan Boundary Commission, and went on to become Surveyor General of India 1899-1904.