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1411. IOR/X/3256/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3256/2
Title:
‘Plan of the Peninsula or Cape of Aden Exhibiting the Proposed Military Limits. Aden July 1855’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Copied & Lithographed in the Office of the Chief Engineer at the Presidency, Bombay 27th December 1862. Signed by R. Phayre Lieutenant-Colonel Quarter Master General. Distinctive Features: Plan of the Aden peninsula shows the military site and existing town with public buildings...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1862
Extent:
1 map

1412. IOR/X/3256/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3256/3
Title:
Plan of the Peninsula, or Cape of Aden
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844
Extent:
1 map

1413. IOR/X/3257

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3257
Title:
‘Peninsula of Aden’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Plan of the Aden peninsula featuring the military site with defence structures including Victoria Bastion, Arsenal, Magazine, Barracks, and Tunnel. Coastal defences shown include Pier of Obstruction, Tower battery, West Gate battery, Ras Morbat F...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 map

1414. IOR/X/3258

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3258
Title:
‘Sketch Plan shewing proposed line of Scarp on the Southern Range, Aden’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Tracing of a rough sketch showing in red the line of proposed works in red with landmarks lettered for reference to correspond to symbols present on series of sections produced together with the plan. Series of sections hold at IOR/X/3259/1 and IO...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 map

1415. IOR/X/3259/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3259/1
Title:
‘Longitudinal Section at crest of proposed Scarp’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Produced to accompany ‘Sketch Plan shewing proposed line of Scarp on the Southern Range, ADEN’ hold at IOR/X/3258. Include twenty five ‘Average Sections’ lettered for references which correspond to symbols present on the main plan. Measurements reported. Inscriptions: O...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 sheet

1416. IOR/X/3259/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3259/2
Title:
‘Longitudinal Section at crest of proposed Scarp’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Produced to accompany ‘Sketch Plan shewing proposed line of Scarp on the Southern Range, ADEN’ hold at IOR/X/3258. Shows the position of tunnelled path, contain twenty three ‘Average Sections’ lettered for references which correspond to symbols present on the main plan. M...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 sheet

1417. IOR/X/3260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3260
Title:
‘Bridge for the South Pass’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Produced to accompany ‘Sketch Plan shewing proposed line of Scarp on the Southern Range, ADEN’ hold at IOR/X/3258. Includes elevation, plan, sections and technical drawings of pivot hinge, plummer block and counterpoint; lettered and labelled for reference with measureme...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 sheet

1418. IOR/X/3630

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3630
Title:
East India or China Pilot, containing 126 charts chiefly published by James Horsburgh
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. Series of nautical charts published in London by the Hydrographer to the East India Company.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
126 maps

1419. IOR/X/3635

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3635
Title:
'A List of Charts and Sailing directions, issued originally by the Honourable East India Company, and subsequently by H[is/Her].M[ajesty's]. Secretary of State for India in Council'
Scope & Content:
The title and the following paragraph are taken 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', India Office (1878). 'Under these authorities the Charts were in the charge of Mr. John Wa...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1800-c 1900
Extent:

c 220 map sheets

1420. IOR/X/3649/1-2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3649/1-2
Title:
'Chart of the Indian Ocean; from the Cape of Good Hope, to Calcutta, including the Red Sea & Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
Covers the Indian Ocean, Red Sea and Persian Gulf, including the islands therein, together with the coasts of eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and southern Asia as far as eastern India. The chart is published in 2 sheets, north and south (bearing the shelfmarks IOR/X/3649/1 and IOR/X/3649/2...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1845
Extent:
1 map on 2 sheets