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1301. 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

1302. 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

1303. IOR/X/3082/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3082/1
Title:
‘Mekran coast - Kurrachee to Guadur with Lieut. Ross route from Guadur to Kurrachee’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Unsigned and undated. Map produced about 1864 when the telegraph line opened. Relief shown by hachures. Printed sketch map of the Mekran Coast showing telegraph line with stations in Kurarachee [Karachi], Sonmeauce [Sonmani], Ormarali [Ormara], Pusinee [Pasni] and Guad...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1864
Extent:
1 map

1304. IOR/X/3083

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3083
Title:
Mekran Coast, Sunmiani to Jask; with Major Ross’ route from Bela through Kowah and the Kej Valley. Also the territory under Muscat, Belooch chiefs’ tributary to Persia, &c.
Scope & Content:
Title from ‘A Catalogue of Manuscript and Printed Reports, Field Books, Memoirs, Maps, etc., of the Indian Surveys, Deposited in the Map Room of the India Office’ published in 1878. Distinctive Features: Creation date ‘1867’ from pencil annotation in the bottom centre. Relief shown by hachu...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1867
Extent:
1 map

1305. IOR/X/3084

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3084
Title:
Map of the Coast from Kurrachee to Guadur showing the route traversed by Major Goldsmid and party
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Tracing of a sketch map of the Makran Coast showing Major Frederick John Goldsmid’s route from Guadur to Kurrachee with the telegraph line (both, build and under construction) marked. The boundary between territories under rule of Imam of Muscat,...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1864
Extent:
1 map

1306. IOR/X/3085

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3085
Title:
‘Sketch of the Coast Between Kurrachee and Bunder Abbas’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Undated tracing of a sketch map of the Makran Coast showing the intended telegraph line between Karachi [Kurachee] and Gwadar [Guadur] with stations, as proposed by Major Frederick John Goldsmid. The extent of the territories intersected by the ...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1864
Extent:
1 map

1307. IOR/X/3094/1-4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3094/1-4
Title:
‘Map of Western Baluchistan Compiled by Order of H.M. Secretary of State for India to Show the Western Frontier of the Territories H.H. the Khan of Kalat as Determined by the Frontier Commission Under Major General Sir Frederic J. Goldsmid C.B., K.C.S.I., by Major O.B.C. [Oliver Beauchamp Coventry ] St. John R.E.’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Boundary indicated by pecked line and tinted pink; unexplored areas labelled. Routes of various expeditions shown in colour with names of explorers and dates of their journeys given. Numerous notations on topographic features inser...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1874
Extent:
1 map

1308. IOR/X/3095/1-2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3095/1-2
Title:
‘THE TERRITORIES OF HIS HIGHNESS THE KHAN OF KELAT, OR BALUCHISTAN WITH THE ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SIND, THE PUNJAB, AFGHANISTAN AND PERSIA. 1876’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Published under the direction of Major-General H.L. Thuillier, C.S.I.-F.R.S., Surveyor General of India, Surveyor General’s Office, Calcutta. December 1877. Photozincographed under the Superintendence of Capt.n. J. Waterhouse. Edition statement: ‘Compiled from the most authentic mat...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1877
Extent:
1 map on 2 sheets

1309. IOR/X/3096

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3096
Title:
A New Map of the Empire of Persia from Monsr. D'Anville, First Geographer to the most Christian King, with Several Additions and Emendations
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London, published by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. General map of Persia showing roads and the ancient limits with provinces outlined in colour. The southern coast of the Persian Gulf labelled ‘Pearl Bank’ with shoals represe...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 May 1794
Extent:
1 map

1310. IOR/X/3097

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3097
Title:
‘Indiae Veteris Quatenus Macedonibus Nota Fuit Finitimarumque Regionum Specimen Geographicum’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London, published by William Faden, Geographer to the King and to the Prince of Wales, Charing Cross. Engraved by William Palmer. Title continues: ‘Situm Ac Nomina Locorum Recentioris Aevi Sub Oculos Subjiciens Nec Non Alexandri Itinera Intra Euphratem Et Hyphasin Et Navigationem Nea...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1797
Extent:
1 map