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Verlag: Sudan Survey Department, Khartoum, 1956
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In den WarenkorbSoft cover. Zustand: Good. Catalogue with two related Index Sheets from 1952 (plus one duplicate) laid in. Original staple-bound printed tan wraps with the SSD's theodolite logo in English and Arabic to the front 26x35cm. (52)pp including several b/w index maps. Covers good with thin lines of rust residue to the front, interiors… very good, creased to the corners. This coincides with Sudan's independence (1 Jan 1956), the first Census by the British which included tribal and linguistic affiliations (1955-56), the start of the First Sudanese Civil War with the south seeking greater autonomy from the north (1955-72), and the transfer of the SSD itself to local directorship and experts. Although not stated, it probably had direction and input from Robert Cuthbert Wakefield, with the SSD since 1929, serving as Director of Surveys (1946-54), then as Consultant responsible for transferring the SSD upon independence (1954-55). The Catalogue shows how it would continue to function as the official mapping agency, producing work to help define contested borders and state planning, with its 1/250K series based on the earlier GSGS Africa series. Covering only topographical and geographical maps, it was intended to be the first part of a catalogue of all printed maps and plans available at the SSD, the Survey of Egypt, Giza (Orman), and Stanford's in London. It lists: Topographical (1/250K, 1/100K Index 34-36, 44-46, 53-56, 64-66, 77-78, 86); Geographical (1/2M, 1/1M, 1/500K); Special (1/10M, 1/8M, 1/4M, 1/3M, 1/2M); and Miscellaneous (1/3M, 1/15K). The Special Maps include eg, hydrography, agriculture, rainfall, language, ecology, fauna, population, tribes, infrastructure, animal density, geology, landing grounds, cattle movements, parliamentary constituencies, administration. The Miscellaneous ones include eg, diseases, railways, schools, the Gemmeiza Sugar Scheme, River Atbara Diversion Scheme, potential crop production. // MAPS LAID IN: Index Map for the 1/250K series (2 copies) and Index Map for the 1/1M series, all 32x46cm, centre-folded, printed in blue and black, dated July 1949, corrected September 1952, overprinted with their respective Index grids in red, 1/8M, showing international and provincial boundaries, rail, telegraph, roads (all season, dry season), and aerodromes (regularly visited), with prices given for paper, linen backed, or linen formats. The latter indicates sheets for the international boundary areas that were published elsewhere (France, Egypt, or England), or "not published". Generally very good, neatly folded. One is dusted to the top corner with some pencil annotation. Institutionally scarce. Rare in commerce. (References: R.C. Wakefield's obituary by John Wright in Survey Review 28, 1986: 222, 419-420; Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections: Robert Cuthbert Wakefield).
