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1. IOR/X/2946

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2946
Title:
‘Sketch of the Roads Between Constantinople and Dehli Compiled from the Travels of Monsr. Tavernier, Mr Forster and from other Sources’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown pictorially. Hand drawn outline map of Persia showing various roads and tracts across the region with cities and larger towns represented pictorially. Inscriptions: On recto in the bottom left-hand corner signed: ‘(a true copy) Robt. Gorelon Lt. Engineer’...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1813
Extent:
1 map

2. IOR/X/2948

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2948
Title:
‘New and Improved Map OF VARIOUS ROUTES BETWEEN EUROPE AND INDIA Comprehending WESTERN AND NORTHERN ASIA, TOGETHER WITH ASIA MINOR AND EGYPT BY J.B. TASSIN’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Calcutta, Jan.y 1834. J.B. Tassin lith. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Map shows various routes between places of interest including caravan and pilgrim routes, with estimated journey times and location of wells reported. Notations concerning regions and their topo...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1834
Extent:
1 map

3. IOR/X/2950

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2950
Title:
‘Map Showing the Steam Communication and Overland Routes Between England, India, China & Australia. Drawn & Engraved by J. Walker’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London, W[illia]m H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, S.W. Distinctive Features: Map of the Eastern Hemisphere showing land and sea routes between England, India, China and Australia featuring a table of reference listing various shipping companies with destinations reported. Rou...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 map

4. IOR/X/2951

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2951
Title:
'Sketch Map shewing the Routes between Constantinople and India by John Walker’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Lithographed by J.&C. Walker. Produced about 1827 when John and Charles Walker’s partnership started. Distinctive Features: Hand coloured outline map of the Middle East showing land routes and waterways in the region with distances reported.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1827
Extent:
1 map

5. IOR/X/2963

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2963
Title:
'Map of routes from Europe to Upper India and Central Asia via Red Sea, the Euphrates Valley, and Kurrachee’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Map issued with ‘The Scinde railway and its relations to the Euphrates Valley, and other routes to India, with illustrative maps, statistical tables, &c., from official sources’ by William Patrick Andrew published in London in 1856. Land routes shown in blue with sea...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 map

6. IOR/X/2964

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2964
Title:
‘Imperial Ottoman Euphrates Railway, shewing the Present and Proposed Routes from London to India by Sir John Macneill and Telford Macneill, Engineers’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: An outlined printed map showing the overland and sea routes from London to India with distances inserted in hand. A table listing the distances and times of transit with railways speed reckoned at 25 miles per hour, and steamers at 12 miles per hour inserted by hand in t...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 map

7. IOR/X/3082/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3082/1
Title:
‘Mekran coast - Kurrachee to Guadur with Lieut. Ross route from Guadur to Kurrachee’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Unsigned and undated. Map produced about 1864 when the telegraph line opened. Relief shown by hachures. Printed sketch map of the Mekran Coast showing telegraph line with stations in Kurarachee [Karachi], Sonmeauce [Sonmani], Ormarali [Ormara], Pusinee [Pasni] and Guad...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1864
Extent:
1 map

8. IOR/X/3083

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3083
Title:
Mekran Coast, Sunmiani to Jask; with Major Ross’ route from Bela through Kowah and the Kej Valley. Also the territory under Muscat, Belooch chiefs’ tributary to Persia, &c.
Scope & Content:
Title from ‘A Catalogue of Manuscript and Printed Reports, Field Books, Memoirs, Maps, etc., of the Indian Surveys, Deposited in the Map Room of the India Office’ published in 1878. Distinctive Features: Creation date ‘1867’ from pencil annotation in the bottom centre. Relief shown by hachu...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1867
Extent:
1 map

9. IOR/X/3084

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3084
Title:
Map of the Coast from Kurrachee to Guadur showing the route traversed by Major Goldsmid and party
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Tracing of a sketch map of the Makran Coast showing Major Frederick John Goldsmid’s route from Guadur to Kurrachee with the telegraph line (both, build and under construction) marked. The boundary between territories under rule of Imam of Muscat,...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1864
Extent:
1 map

10. IOR/X/3085

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3085
Title:
‘Sketch of the Coast Between Kurrachee and Bunder Abbas’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Undated tracing of a sketch map of the Makran Coast showing the intended telegraph line between Karachi [Kurachee] and Gwadar [Guadur] with stations, as proposed by Major Frederick John Goldsmid. The extent of the territories intersected by the ...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1864
Extent:
1 map