Overland Route to India.

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Steel engraving, hand colored in outline and wash. The fine engraved map is showing the overland route to India with Arabia and the Middle East. The map is decorated with eight finely hand colored engraved vignette city views: the Post Office in London, Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, Suez, Madraz, Bombay and the mail crossing the dessert. The actual map was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin. The illustrations were engraved by various artists: R. Radclyffe, W. Lacy, J. Rogers, J. H. Kernot, J. B. Allen, T. Fleming, H. Winkles, R. Baker after drawings by H. Warren, H. Winkles and H. Wray.