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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...
‘Railway Map of Basra and Magil Showing Tentative Proposals for Port Development’
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Imprint: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Office, Calcutta. Reproduced by Bashrah Survey Party I.E.F.”D” No. 81 Dated 12.6.17. Signature of Acting Director of Railways in the bottom right-hand corner. Distinctive Features: Plan of Basra showing railway infrastructure including existi...
Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J. The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of ...
Volume II of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries K through to R. The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) o...
Volume III of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries S through to Z, a glossary of terms used and a map (contained in a pouch attached to the back inside cover of the volume). The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compend...
Imprint: General Staff India. S.D.O. No. 1414, December, 1915. Distinctive Features: General map of Arabian Peninsula showing land and river routes across the region. Routes numbered for reference and described in detail in the volume. Contains four inset maps at the larger scale of 32 mil...
‘Sketch Showing Position of Ka’taba with Reference to Aden and British Territory’
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Imprint: S.D.O. No. 1174, February 1915. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Small sketch map produced to illustrate the position of Ka’taba [Qa’tabah] within the region with a camel track to Aden marked and distances between Dthala [Dhala] and Aden reported.
Imprint: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Dehra Dun. Published under the direction of the Honourable Colonel F.B. Longe, R.E., A.D.C. Surveyor General of India. 1910. Transliteration by J.G. Lorimer, Esq., C.I.E., I.C.S. Outline and hill shading by Munshi Karim Bakhsh. Typing b...
Map of the Arabian Coast from Makatin to Bandar Janjiri
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The map shows the coastline and littoral of the Gulf of Aden between Makatin and Bandar Janjiri [Bandar Qinqari, Oman] including Sokotra Island. The borders of various tribal boundaries are marked on the map as well as the primary towns and settlements along the coast.
Imprint: Reproduced by the Survey of Egypt, 1st March 1917 (758Z). Distinctive Features: Outline map of Hejaz showing routes across the region with districts and approximate location of major tribes indicated. Contains a key to symbols at the bottom left-hand corner. Routes numbered for refe...
