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Kirkpatrick Catalogue entry: "2492 [India. Survey of India Dept.] Contour map of India. [Calcutta, 1886] 6 sheets. [see cabinet].""Based on a system of approximate contours." Two tables: "Table showing the Mean Elevation of India in different Latitudes" and "Table showing Lengths and Heights of Sources of the larger Rivers of India and the Areas drained by them." MS notes: Burton (map collection) India contour. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: contour lines. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Kirkpatrick Catalogue entry: "2491; India. Survey of India Dept. Agra, cantonment, city and environs: season 1868-69. [Calcutta, 1870]. 6 sheets. [see cabinet]."Each sheet inscribed with the name "Ismail"? Sheet 5 has MS date of "31/7/73". Taj Mahal is in the center of sheet 4. MS notes: Burton (map cabinet) India Agra. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Kirkpatrick Catalogue entry: "2489 Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division. Map of the Pamirs and adjacent territory. London, Edward Stanford for the War Office, 1893. 1 sheet. [see cabinet]."Appeared in "Map of the country between Russian and Chinese Turkestan and British India. Compiled in the Intelligence Division, War Office, mainly from the Latest India Survey and Russian General Staff Maps under the Direction of Lt. Col. Y.C. Dalton."? MS notes: Burton (map cabinet) Great Britain War Office 2489.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Kirkpatrick Catalogue entry: "2487 l Goa. The Goas's map gen[er]al transcribed. [n.p., n.d.] 1 sheet (manuscript). [see cabinet]."Manuscript map. MS notes on symbols, not Burton's hand. There is one note that could be by Burton, just above the label for Anchumalu. Art work: Armillary sphere MS notes: Burton (map cabinet) Goa. 2487 Goa, East Coast, India. 12. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Holographic. Other Features: Art Work.
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Kirkpatrick Catalogue entry: "2534 Waterlow & Sons. Ltd., publisher. Map of the continental railways in connection with the London, Brighton & south coast and western of France railways. London. [18--]. 1 sheet. [see p.]."Alternate title printed sideways in right margin. Submap on verso. “The London, Brighton & South Coast Rwy., amalgamated from the London & Croydon and London & Brighton lines in 1846, dominated the area immediately south of London. Victoria Station was also its terminus, which it opened on October 1, 1860.” From World railways of the nineteenth century: a pictorial history in Victorian engravings, by Jim Harter, 2005, page 20.The dates suggested are the year Victoria Station (which appears on the map on the verso), and the year of Burton's death. MS notes: 2534 p. maps Europe Waterlow.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: Submap: London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. Metropolitan & Suburban Lines & Connections..
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Kirkpatrick Catalogue entry: "2459 Atacama. Provincia se Atacama. [Santiago?, 18--]. 1 sheet [see p.]."Unknown maker of a mining district Burton may have had an interest in.Faint imprint in right margin reading "Breton Freres et cie."Atacama was a province from 1843 to 1974. The Copiapo-Caldera railway, the first in Chile, was constructed in 1850. The map shows "ferro carril" (railway track) between Juan Godoi and Copiapo, so this map was made after 1850. Probably obtained while Burton was in South America between 1865 and 1868. Ms notes: Burton (map cabinet) Atacama 2459. Relief: no. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
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