Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Plan of the Aden peninsula featuring the military site with defence structures including Victoria Bastion, Arsenal, Magazine, Barracks, and Tunnel. Coastal defences shown include Pier of Obstruction, Tower battery, West Gate battery, Ras Morbat F...
‘Sketch Plan shewing proposed line of Scarp on the Southern Range, Aden’
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Tracing of a rough sketch showing in red the line of proposed works in red with landmarks lettered for reference to correspond to symbols present on series of sections produced together with the plan. Series of sections hold at IOR/X/3259/1 and IO...
Distinctive Features: Produced to accompany ‘Sketch Plan shewing proposed line of Scarp on the Southern Range, ADEN’ hold at IOR/X/3258. Include twenty five ‘Average Sections’ lettered for references which correspond to symbols present on the main plan. Measurements reported. Inscriptions: O...
Distinctive Features: Produced to accompany ‘Sketch Plan shewing proposed line of Scarp on the Southern Range, ADEN’ hold at IOR/X/3258. Shows the position of tunnelled path, contain twenty three ‘Average Sections’ lettered for references which correspond to symbols present on the main plan. M...
Distinctive Features: Produced to accompany ‘Sketch Plan shewing proposed line of Scarp on the Southern Range, ADEN’ hold at IOR/X/3258. Includes elevation, plan, sections and technical drawings of pivot hinge, plummer block and counterpoint; lettered and labelled for reference with measureme...
‘Winds and Currents in the PERSIAN GULF. BY Lieutenant Fergusson I.N.F.R.A.S. Draughtsman to the Indian Navy. Engraved by J.&C. Walker’
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Imprint: Published by John Walker, Geographer to the Honourable East India Company. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Series of twelve nautical charts of the Persian Gulf with force and direction of the winds and currents reported for each month from January to December. Each...
'A List of Names of Positions on Both Sides of the Persian Gulph. Baghdad 25th February 1836'
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Bound volume divided into two sections: Folios 2 to 6: Persian Coast and Islands Folios 6 to 13: Arabian Coast and Islands Names are listed in Arabic with 'their vulgar pronounciation in English letters' and spelling 'as expressed in the chart'. Selection and spelling of names relate to the ...
‘Arabic Characters to Accompany and for Insertion in the Chart of the Persian Gulf’
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Distinctive Features: Hand drawn table compiled by the East India Company Chart Office to accompany the 'Chart of the Persian Gulf' with transliterated Arabic place names inserted in black ink. Inscriptions: On recto in the upper right-hand corner in an annotation in black ink: ‘Reced. Pr. U...
‘Chart of the South Coast of the Persian Gulph from Shaum to Ul Umrah by Philip Maughan. 1821. Drawn by M. Houghton’
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Hand drawn nautical chart of the shores of the Persian Gulf compiled from the survey carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers in 1821 showing the western coastline from Shaum [Ash Sha‘m or Sha’am] to Ul Umrah [Jazīr...
