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1. Add MS 42068

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Add MS 42068
Title:
'TRAITE DE FORTIFICATIONS: De l'art de fortifier les places ou l'on explique les differens Sistemes qui ont ete Mis en usage jusqu a ce jour et les differens dehors qui ont ete pratiquez pour eloigner les Approches Expliqué par le Sr d'Armancourt Mtre de Mathematiques. à Monsieur [Bathurst erased] qui en à (sic) dessiné les Planches 1729.' In twenty chapters, with introduction and preface, and twenty-four coloured plans. The introduction, entitled 'De l'utilite des placesfortes', reproduces ...
Scope & Content:
Fortification: Treatise by Sieur d'Armancourt, with plans: 1729.: Fr. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Royal Engineers, Corps of: 19th cent. Armancourt, Sieur - d'; Maitre de Mathématiques: Traité de Fortifications, etc.: 1729. includes: ff. 71-94 Maps and Plans: Plans, by - Bathurst, to illust...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1729
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 69848

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 69848
Title:
SURVEY OF WESTERN PALESTINE: working papers relating to the Conder and Kitchener survey of Palestine; 1872-1877. The main part of the papers consists of sheets of calculations for bearings, co-ordinates, distances and heights. There is also a working map of the survey area at a scale of 4 miles to the inch drawn on tracing linen, with place names and heights marked, and other data marked in red, with two preliminary drawings, and two diagrams showing the system of map sheets for the area. Th...
Scope & Content:
Maps and Plans: Palestine: Colonel Claude Regnier Conder, RE: Field-Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener: Working papers rel. to Conder and Kitchener's survey of Western Palestine: 1872-1877.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1877
Extent:
1 item

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/20/2

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IOR/L/MIL/17/16/20/2
Title:
‘Russo-Turkish War, 1877. Operations in Asia.’
Scope & Content:
Confidential report providing a narrative of operations in Asia (Turkey) during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/78, written by Lieutenant W A H Hare, Royal Engineers. The narrative covers the period 1 September 1877 to the fall of the Turkish city of Kars on 18 November 1877. The narrative is foll...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:

1 item (20 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3474

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3474
Title:
Coll 28/69 ‘Irrigation Projects in Sth Persia. Reports by Major W. R. Morton R.E. inc. Suggestion of Sir L. Howarth’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to proposals for irrigation schemes in Persia [Iran], and specifically for the Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] in the southwest of the country. The contents of the volume can be divided into two parts, as follows: Correspondence dated 1933-34 (ff 141-240) concerning a request made by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1933-23 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/662

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/662
Title:
‘File 28/1 K II Defence of oil field and refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, many marked ‘Most Secret’, relating to plans for the defence and emergency demolition of oil fields and refineries operated by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, and to a lesser extent, those operated by the C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1942-30 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (287 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/663

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/663
Title:
‘File 28/1 K III Defence of oil field & refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, memoranda and other papers, many marked ‘Most Secret’, relating to plans for the defence and emergency demolition (‘oil denial’) of oil fields and refineries operated by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, and the subsequent abandonment of these de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1942-10 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (209 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/718

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/718
Title:
‘File 28/28-(i) Military requirements (purchases etc. for the army)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the acquisition of oil industry equipment and supplies from the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) and the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), for use by British military headquarters at Basra, Iraq (later referr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1941-29 Jan 1943
Extent:
1 file (305 folios)

8. IOR/X/14709

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/14709
Title:
HIND 608 Rangoon Town Plan
Scope & Content:
First edition, April 1945. A topographical map of Rangoon on three sheets, showing roads, railways, tracks, religious buildings and relief with contours. Legend and scale shown on sheet 1 only. Restricted. Prepared by direct enlargement of HIND 1036 Rangoon, three inches to one mile, third editio...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1946
Extent:
3 sheets

9. IOR/X/14710/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/14710/4
Title:
Moulmein Sheet 2
Scope & Content:
Sheet 2 (southern) of a town plan of Moulmein, Burma, with contours. A table of annotations listing buildings and locations is on the right of the sheet. Enlarged from Moulmein Guide Map 4 inches to 1 mile, dated 1927, and revised from air photographs taken Oct. 1944 - Feb. 1945. HIND/SEA/1036. D...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 sheet

10. IOR/X/14751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/14751
Title:
A Collection of Maps of India, Adjacent Countries and the Indian Ocean, previously owned by Enoch Powell, MP
Scope & Content:
This collection has 14 sheets, some of which are composites of individual sheets pasted to form contiguous areas of India and adjacent countries. The most recent printed date on the maps is 1946, the oldest is 1923. The manuscript additions on some maps are undated. The envelope associated with t...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
14 sheets and 1 envelope