The map accompanies The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918. Volume IV, and shows Mesopotamia and portions of Arabia and Persia, indicating boundaries, cities, towns, principal routes, railways and an oil pipeline. Some relief is shown with shading and sketch marks, and seas, rivers and marshes ar...
Imprint: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Dehra Dun. S.D.O. 3953(a). Distinctive Features: Sketch map of Istabulat and surrounding area, showing the Baghdad Railway line with stations, the location of Istabulat ruins and the old Turkish position marked.
Imprint: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Dehra Dun. S.D.O. 3938. 2-25. Distinctive Features: Outline map showing the area east of Kut-Al-Amara [Al-Kūt] produced to illustrate the movements of British military forces on the 17th April 1916 with position of various infantry b...
The first edition of Who's Who in Persia (Volume II), compiled by the General Staff, India, comprises a biographical dictionary of individuals, families, and tribes connected with Persia in 1923. At the front of the volume (ff 4-7) it includes lists of: foreign representatives in Tehran; Persia...
'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)'
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. (Volume I.) (Khorasan and Sistan.) General Staff India 1928 (Calcutta, Government of India Press, 1928). The volume contains details of land routes. The information given for each route comprises: number of rout...
‘Fig. 1 Advance of the Euphrates-Tigris delta since early historic times (after maps of de Morgan)’
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Distinctive Features: Map of the Tigris-Euphrates Delta produced to illustrate the geology of Mesopotamia and surrounding region based on Jacques de Morgan’s research. Shows the advance of delta over the time with the Persian Gulf’s coast in time of Sennacherib B.C. by pecked line; the coastlin...
Index Plan Showing Mesopotamian Railways (Preliminary Plan). 20th Feb 1918
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Preliminary plan of Mesopotamian Railways showing various lines both built and under construction (including standard, metre, narrow and decauville gauge) with a key to track sizes inserted at the bottom left-hand corner. Signed; ‘Guy Lubbock Br...
Map accompanying MILITARY REPORT on PERSIA Vol. IV Part I.
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The map is a General Staff India publication marked for official use only, and accompanies MILITARY REPORT on PERSIA Vol. IV Part I. The map shows a region of southern and eastern Persia, indicating regions, cities, towns, roads, tracks, the routes of railways and telegraph lines, boundaries and...
The map is a General Staff India publication marked for official use only, and accompanies Routes in Persia. (Volume I.) (Khorasan and Sistan.). The map shows a region of northern and eastern Persia, indicating routes described in the volume, cities, towns, roads, tracks and paths. Numbers and l...
The map is a General Staff India publication marked for official use only, and accompanies Routes in Persia. Volume III, Part I. The map shows a region of central and southern Persia, indicating routes described in the volume, cities, towns, roads, tracks, paths, and the routes of telegraph line...
