Ryder Colonel (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Good Copy of this book in Publisher's stiff card covers with plain brown cloth spine with paper title label to spine also and with titles in black to the book's upper cover.There are several College of Commerce stamps to the pre-lims and maps at rear of the book.Contents are in four parts with general remarks on Administration and part two with topographical surveys,Forest surveys,Cantonmnet and large scale surveys and Trigonometrical Surveys.part three dels with Office Work and Part 4 is on work for Other Government Departments.This work includes the advertised 8 large folding maps at the rear of the book on India's demographics etc.Large folio with 49 pages of text plus 8 maps.Outer boards are a little worn and creased to the front cover,with what appears to be some silverfish type nibbling to the front pastedown join and to rear cover (approx 1'' in dimension) corners rubbed and knocked.Scarce title folio.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Book measures 25.5x17.cm. iii, [2], 61pp, 7 coloured maps, of which 4 are folding. Bound in original publishers cloth backed printed boards. Binding lightly rubbed, dust marked, library number and label. Binding in good firm condition. Internally, occasional library stamp, cancellation stamp. Pages and maps in very good clean condition. Size: 8vo.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st revised edition. Surveyor General: Colonel C H D Ryder. Publisher: The Survey Of India, Calcutta. Price: £400. Publication Date: 1922. Edition: Not stated. Possibly the first edition. Format: Heliozincograph. Condition: In very good condition, unframed. Sheet Size: Sheet Size: 40.2cm x 55.8cm. Scale: 1 inch to 2 miles: 1:126720. Condition: Original fold lines into 16 sections with minor age toning and marks. Backed on linen. Reverse is blank with very minor age toning and marks and a short description in pencil. In original and unrestored condition. Exceptionally scarce. Location: Map Drawer C: FS: Folder 1220. Description: A detailed map, numbered 43 N/SW. Cart tracks and camel-tracks are also shown along with mule-paths and footpaths. The key is useful, showing camping grounds, forts, watch-towers, mines and deserted villages. This is a mountainous region, with many significant peaks such as Kolahoi shown, along with glaciers and snow beds and numerous valleys including the elusive Kaobal Gali. Kolahoi had been first climbed in 1912 by a team led by Dr Ernest Neve. There are few large settlements but Khana Gund, Pahigam and Sotur are marked in the south and Sonamarg in the central region. The JISC Library hub finds no copies British institutional libraries.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Scale: 1:1000000 or 1 inch to 16 miles. Sheet Size: 55.5cm x 47.6cm. Sheet No. 58. A detailed map of the region on a good scale. Includes Palk Bay and the Gulf of Manaar and settlements including Salem, Tanjore, Tinnevelly and Madura. Covers very slightly dusty and marked. Dissected onto linen. Original fold lines into 8 sections. Very minor age toning and marks. Reverse is blank with very minor age toning and marks. In near fine, original and unrestored condition. Very scarce.

Black and white photographic frontispiece and one other page of black and white photographs with tissue-guards, ten folding coloured maps and charts. Part I: Topographical Survey: Part II; Geodetic and Scientific Operations. 132pp. Ex-library copy, a little foxing first leaves. Buff coloured printed boards and linen spine, covers marked and soiled, prior owner details and stamps on upper cover, preliminary and last leaves blacked out with marker, the text block and maps are clean. A good sturdy copy. 33 x 21cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Quarto. green cloth to spine with gilt lettering, papered boards with black lettering, no dust jacket, 300 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Cloth. Condition: Good Only. None (illustrator). First edition. An exceptionally scarce collection of Surveys of India from the early twentieth century, profusely illustrated with folding maps. Very scarce work.Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. These fascinating historical documents provide insight into the makeup of India during the early twentieth century, with topographical information, general remarks on administration, trigonometrical surveys, and much more. Prepared under the direction of the Surveyor General of India, with the first three surveys being overseen by Colonel Sir S. G. Burrard, and the latter being covered by Colonel C. H. D. Ryder.This collection is comprised of the following: Survey of India. General Report 1914-15 From 1st October 1914 to 30th September 1915. Published in 1916. Illustrated with fourteen maps, most of which are folding. Collated, complete. Survey of India. General Report 1916-17 From 1st October 1916 to 30th September 1917. Published in 1918. Illustrated with fourteen maps, most of which are folding. Collated, complete. The author's presentation copy, with a letter inserted presenting the copy to Sydenham College, Bromley.Survey of India. General Report 1917-18 From 1st October 1917 to 30th September 1918. Published in 1919. Illustrated with fourteen maps, most of which are folding. Collated, complete. Survey of India. General Report 1918-19 From 1st October 1918 to 30th September 1919. Published in 1920. Illustrated with eight maps, most of which are folding. Collated, complete.Survey of India. General Report 1919-20 From 1st October 1919 to 30th September 1920. Published in 1921. Illustrated with eight maps, most of which are folding. Collated, complete. Survey of India. General Report 1920-21 From 1st October 1920 to 30th September 1921. Published in 1922. Illustrated with eight maps, many of which are folding. Collated, complete.With two additional paperback documents: 'An Account of a Determination of the Coefficients of Expansion of the Wires of the Jaderin Base-Line Apparatus' (1902), prepared under the direction of Major F. B. Longe. Containing tables and figures.'Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: Vol V, No. 5, pp.195-205, Miscellanea Ethnographica, III', (1917) by N. Annandale. Illustrated with four plates. Collated, complete. 'Author's copy' stamp to the front cover.With library stamps, the occasional ink or pencil annotation, ownership stamps and wear. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 'Memoirs of the Asiatic Society' and 'An Account of a Determination of the Coefficients' are in the publisher's paperback binding. Externally, worn, with soiling to boards and rubbing to the extremities. Slight fraying to cloth, with some loss to the extremities and the odd tear to the backstrip. Library stamps to covers, endpapers and throughout, including to maps. Lacking the front free endpaper to 1918-19 report, with front endpaper half excised to 1917-18 report. Internally, binding is tender throughout, with some volumes disbound or partially disbound. Title page is partially excised to 1916-17 report. Pages are delicate in places; edge-worn with chipping and closed tears, with a significant horizontal tear to page 3 and the contents page of the 1914-5 report. Slight worming visible, heavier to 1914- and 1916-7 reports. A selection of library stamps, including stamps to Sydenham college and Birmingham university. The occasional correction adhered to page with glue. Pages are age toned with the odd pencil inscription and mark. Good Only. book.

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. Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder (1868â"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.