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The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.
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The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1865. With maps, etc.
The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. (Edited by the Honorary Secretary.) Volume XVIII.
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The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. (Edited by the Honorary Secretary.) Volume XVIII. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1868. With maps etc. (including one map in German).
The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1868 to December 1873. (On its Amalgamation with the B. B. R. Asiatic Society). Edited by the Secretary. Volume XIX.
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The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1868 to December 1873. (On its Amalgamation with the B.B.R. Asiatic Society). Edited by the Secretary. Volume XIX. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1874. 'B. B. R. Asiatic Society' ...
'The main pass, Aden.' By Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
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Genre/Subject Matter: View, looking south, of a mountainous landscape through the Main Pass at Aden, the main route into Crater, towards a hill riddled with caves, one of which is likely to be the cave reputed to hold the tomb of Abel. A steep slope or series of steps leads towards the pass a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
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1 pen and ink and wash drawing on watercolour paper
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the Red Sea, at the northwest of the Bab el-Mandeb strait, of Gibel Tir [Jebel Al-Tair], meaning ‘bird mountain’. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour, pencil and ink drawing on watercolour paper
Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England, 1840 by John Brownrigg Bellasis (1806-90)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822-56
Extent:
Album of 414 drawings and scraps, and 9 prints of landscapes, architecture, natural history, and people, including Indian costumes and military uniforms. Made in W. India and the Deccan, 1822-56, and during a journey overland to England
Album of 154 drawings, most made in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-63)
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Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains one hundred and fifty-four landscape views and studies in watercolour and pencil of locations and subjects encountered between 1834 and 1839. The majority are inscribed with notes, dates and captions by the artist. Some inscriptions are in a later hand. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-39
Extent:
Album of 154 drawings of views in the Punjab hills, Kashmir, Baltistan and Afghanistan, 1 typescript note lightly tipped into a leather-bound album
Drawings of the coast around Aden and along the Red Sea made during Elwon’s survey to establish the best course for steamers travelling to and from Suez by Thomas Elwon (1793/4-1835)
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Genre/Subject Matter: A series of coastal profiles in pencil record the survey of the Red Sea undertaken by Captain Thomas Elwon of the Benares that took place between 1829-1834 to establish the best course for steamers to and from Suez. Taken from a sketch book inscribed on the first page ‘C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829-1834
Extent:
9 topographical views on 4 sheets of paper
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