Distinctive Features: General map of Abyssinia [Ethiopia] published as a supplement to the 26 October 1867 issue of ‘The Bombay Gazette’. Relief shown by hachures. Shows routes of various expeditions with a list of explorers and dates of their journeys at lower right.
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Tracing of a sketch map of Persia showing routes from Bushire [Bushehr] to Shiraz, Firozabad [Firuzabad], Marghab and onwards to Ispahan with settlements marked, including the location of Persepolis. Notations concerning the ter...
Photograph of unknown building. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre/Subject Matter: This architectural view of a large, recently-constructed complex of three buildings likely depicts a British residency or agency, although its precise location is unknown. Dates and photographer can also not be ascertained, however, it can be construed that the photograph ...
Imprint: Lithographed at the Bombay Education Society's Press. Signed John Beatty B.A.C.E. 3rd Executive Engineer C.D. In charge Canal Duties H.C. Distinctive Features: Map of the Hydrabad Collectorate [province of Sindh, Pakistan] showing the canals and roads with districts outlined in colo...
Sketch map of the Arabian coast between Al Katif and Ras Jibsk
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Hand drawn sketch map showing the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf between Al Katif and Ras Jibsk. Notations concerning the topography of the region cover the face of the map with graticule lines with degrees of latitude inserte...
A Map of Turkestan illustrating the travels of Arminius Vamberry in 1863
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Imprint: London, published by John Murray, Albermarle Street. Lithographed by Stanfords Geog. Estab. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Shows the route of the author by red line. The verso of the folio contains the title 'Vamberry's map of Central Asia' written in Lewis Pelly...
Sketch map of the route from Bunder Abbas to Cape Jask. 1864
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Below title the note: Protracted by Mr [Edwin] Dawes, late Indian Navy, to accompany Colonel Pelly's despatch No.73 of 1864. Shows the line of route with distances ‘calculated from the time actually employed in marching’. Districts labelled fo...
'Sketch of the Peninsula from Bushire to Hallela Surveyed by Captain Shewell Assistant Quarter Master General and Head Guide Govindrow 1st Division P.E.F.F.’
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Distinctive Features: Copy produced by the Quarter Master General's Office, Poona, 15 July 1863. The original map was drawn up by A. Quarter Master General's Office 1st Division P.E.F.F. [Persian Expeditionary Field Force], Bushire, May 1857. Signed W V Shewell Captain, Assistant Quarter Master...
Map of Damara and Great Namaqua Land and the Adjacent Countries to and beyond Lake Ngami as explored and surveyed by Messrs Galton & Andersson
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Imprint: London, Published by Hurst and Blackett. Drawn by E Ravenstein; Engraved on stone by Schenck and McFarlane Lithographers, Edinburgh. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Below title the note 'The coast from 20° South lat, to Walfisch Bay is from the survey of Capt. Will...
