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Maps, plans and views from Elphinstone’s Account of Royal Engineer and Royal Artillery operations at the Siege of Sebastopol, published by Eyre and Spottiswoode for Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, London 1859. Lithographed and printed at the Topographical Department of the British War Department. 11 sheets showing 13 plates: Plate III - Plan of the Siege of Sevastopol by
the Allied Armies 1854-55 (39¼ in x 26 in) (6 in:1 mi)
Plate VI - Outline Plan of the Right Attack (26 in x 37½ in) (5¾ in:300 yd) Plate VIII - Outline Plan of the Left Attack (26½ in x 39 in) (5¾ in:300 yd) Plate X - Left Attack: Details and Sections of the Works (20 in x 13½ in) (various scales) Plate XII - Sketch of the “Quarries” and Russian Works in front of the Advanced Trenches of the Right Attack (19½ in x 26½ in) (various scales) Plate XIII - Plan Shewing the Lines and Advanced Works Thrown up by the Russians to Cover the South Side of Sebastopol (37½ in x 25½ in) (8½ in:1 mi) Plate XIV - Plan of the Mamelon or Kamtschatka Redoubt shewing the French Lodgments and Alterations (25½ in x 19¾ in) (various scales) Plate XV - Plan of the Redan or Bastion No. 3 (13½ in x 20¼ in) (various scales) Plate XVIA - The Malakoff or Kornileff Bastion (19½ in x 26½ in) (various scales) Plate XVII - Flagstaff Battery or Bastion No. 4 shewing the System of Mines & Countermines (19¼ in x 25 in) (various scales) Plates XVIII, XIX, XX - 3 sketches of the various tanks (19½ in x 25¼ in) (1 in : 40 ft) Exterior of folded maps soiled. Some small cracks at fold corners, especially on the larger maps. Enclosed in loose, red cloth boards. Ex library evidence only appears as a sticker on front board. From Here to Infinity Gallery operates from an historic 1840's building in beautiful downtown Brockville, Ontario. Purveyor of the unique, the gallery also operates an archive holding thousands of historical negatives and photographic prints as well as an eclectic collection of antiquarian and fine books, ephemera and other interesting paper and historically viable items. |