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A version of the map at CHI/270/1/1 including the following additions: relief shown with hachures and with form lines (which have been added in manuscript); a larger number of named settlements; Chinese translations of the legend and the statement of scale; province names in Chinese with romanisa...
Pei-Han Railway [京漢鐵路] (Belgian-Chinese)'. 'Copied A Middleton Bugler R.E.
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A reduction of a map drawn at a larger scale, showing the line of the railway between Peking [北京] and Hankow [漢口], indicating stations, river crossings and the adjacent road route. Place-names are given in Wade-Giles romanisation.
A Map and a Gradient Profile of the Railway Line from Chengting, Chihli [正定, 直隸], to Taiyuan, Shansi [太原, 山西]. 'Compagnie Imperiale des Chemins de Fer Chinois'.
'Mongolian territory now incorporated into Manchuria. G. Pereira Lt. Col. Grenadier Guards Military Attaché, Peking 14th July 1908'.
Scope & Content:
Two copies of a sketch map covering a route north from Chengkiatun (鄭家屯) to Taonan (洮南), both now in Kirin (吉林) province. Generalised hydrology is indicated, also settlements along the line of the route. A text panel mentions terrain, and that the map was plotted from information received from M...
Frontière Anglo-Portugaise dans la région du Manica. Carte annéxée à l'arrêt arbitral du 30 Janvier 1897
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Title translation: Anglo-Portuguese frontier in the Manica region. Map annex to the arbitral decision of 30 January 1897'. Composite sheet comprised from 2 originals. Defines the border alignment between the British and Portuguese spheres of influence (Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa respec...
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')
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Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, use of Sarum, with saints in blue, red, mauve and gold. Besides the usual Sarum saints are included the feasts of Dominic (30 May), Botolph (17 June), Mildred (13 July), Paulinus (10 October), Ethelburga of Barking (11 October), the Translation of Wilfred (12 Oct...
Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
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A collection of modern papers removed from other Yates Thompson MSS. Contents: [ir-iir]: Table of contents. ff. 1r-3r: A 1453 bond by Jean, Bastard of Orleans, count of Dunois and of Longueville, to Bertrand de Beauvais, for 200 crowns, with a 1469 and notarial certificate of receipt (ff. 1r-...