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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Asia, World Material Type Maps and Plans

1. IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1, f 376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1, f 376
Title:
‘Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia’
Scope & Content:
The map sheet is one of seven maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1. It shows the names and locations of key settlements and regions during the period of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires. These are superimposed in red ink over a map of the eastern Ottoman Empire. Portrays hydrology, relief by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 map sheet

2. IOR/X/2939

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2939
Title:
'A New Map of Asia, Exhibiting Its Natural and Political Divisions'
Scope & Content:
Covers Asia and, in less detail, north-eastern Europe. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures, selected forests, settlements, place names. Boundaries have been highlighted in coloured ink and watercolour. Published by John Cary, 1832.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1832
Extent:

1 map sheet

3. IOR/X/2940/1-4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2940/1-4
Title:
'Map of Asia'
Scope & Content:
Covers Asia in 4 sheets as follows: IOR/X/2940/1: North-west IOR/X/2940/2: North-east IOR/X/2940/3: South-west IOR/X/2940/4: South-east Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures and occasional spot heights, some road routes, settlements, place names, and includes topographical notes. Internati...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1818
Extent:

1 map on 4 sheets

4. IOR/X/2948

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2948
Title:
‘New and Improved Map OF VARIOUS ROUTES BETWEEN EUROPE AND INDIA Comprehending WESTERN AND NORTHERN ASIA, TOGETHER WITH ASIA MINOR AND EGYPT BY J.B. TASSIN’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Calcutta, Jan.y 1834. J.B. Tassin lith. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Map shows various routes between places of interest including caravan and pilgrim routes, with estimated journey times and location of wells reported. Notations concerning regions and their topo...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1834
Extent:
1 map

5. IOR/X/2950

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2950
Title:
‘Map Showing the Steam Communication and Overland Routes Between England, India, China & Australia. Drawn & Engraved by J. Walker’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London, W[illia]m H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, S.W. Distinctive Features: Map of the Eastern Hemisphere showing land and sea routes between England, India, China and Australia featuring a table of reference listing various shipping companies with destinations reported. Rou...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 map

6. IOR/X/2963

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2963
Title:
'Map of routes from Europe to Upper India and Central Asia via Red Sea, the Euphrates Valley, and Kurrachee’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Map issued with ‘The Scinde railway and its relations to the Euphrates Valley, and other routes to India, with illustrative maps, statistical tables, &c., from official sources’ by William Patrick Andrew published in London in 1856. Land routes shown in blue with sea...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 map

7. IOR/X/2964

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/2964
Title:
‘Imperial Ottoman Euphrates Railway, shewing the Present and Proposed Routes from London to India by Sir John Macneill and Telford Macneill, Engineers’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: An outlined printed map showing the overland and sea routes from London to India with distances inserted in hand. A table listing the distances and times of transit with railways speed reckoned at 25 miles per hour, and steamers at 12 miles per hour inserted by hand in t...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 map

8. Mss Eur F126/109

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/109
Title:
‘Sketch map reduced from Sir R.M. Stephenson’s Railway map of Europe and Asia in 1850 and of China in 1863 Shewing the Proposed Railway Communication Connecting Europe and Asia. By Sir Rowland Macdonald Stephenson. 1882’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London, Connell Litho. 37 Castle St. Holborn E.C. Distinctive Features: Outline map showing the completed and proposed railway scheme in Europe and Asia, with lines coloured for reference and explained in a key provided in the lower centre of sheet. Below title the note: London, B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882
Extent:

1 map