Sketch map found at folio 53 of 'Biographies of the notables of Fars and certain Persian Officials who have served at Shiraz'. The map bears the statements 'Authority:- Fars - Nameh-i-Nasiri (1895)', and 'Simla Drawing Office No. 3892, June 1924'.
'Sketch of the Countries between Hindustan and the Caspian Sea'
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A large-scale map showing a region encompassing modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan, as well as parts of Uzbekistan, India, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Compiled in the Office of the Surveyor General of India, Calcutta, 1870. ...
'Map to illustrate report on Toorkoman Tribes between the Caspian and the Oxus, February 1876'
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The map shows a number of boundary lines converging on Meshed [Mashhad], originating in modern-day Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. It bears the printing statement 'Lithographed at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, November 1877. The map was printed from an Original suppli...
Sketch to illustrate positions of Flagstaffs at Elphinstone Inlet and Sheep Island (Musandim Peninsula)
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A sketch of the Musandim Peninsula [Shibh Jazīrat Musandam], including Elphinstone Inlet [Khawr ash Shamm], Sheep Island [Jazīrat Umm al Ghanam] and Malcolm's Inlet [Ghubbat al Ghazira]. The sketch is signed by William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Assistant Resident and HM Consul at Bandar Abbas. ...
Sketch of Approaches to Kuweit Harbour and Shatt Al Arab, compiled from various authorities
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A map originally issued for Fleet purposes, 2 June 1902. Large corrections made December 1904, and July 1907. Small corrections made December 1906, July 1908, and September 1908. The map shows lights, gravel, mud, rock, sand, shells and stones.
A sketch map showing Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and its surrounding district. The map features coloured lines showing the proposed location of the Turco-Persian frontier at Mohammerah. The proposed Turkish line is marked in yellow; the proposed Persian line is marked in green; and the line propo...
A War Office map, dated January 1907. The map shows the following railway lines: British; French; Anglo-Franco-German; the Baghdad Railway System; the Anatolian Railway; Turkish Railways; Egyptian 'State' Railways; and Russian Railways. The map also marks out the Ordu Territorial Districts [co...
Map indicating routes taken by the Masqat [Muscat] arms trade from the Persian (Makran) coast and inland, into Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan. The routes are marked with solid red lines, and annotated with red letters and numbers which are identified in the accompanying report (ff 22-23). Ma...
An index map indicating the areas of Persia [Iran] covered by different volumes of the ‘Routes in Persia’ series produced by the Division of the Chief of Staff, Army Headquarters India (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/20/C101/1-12). The map displays Persia and surrounding countries. Persia is divided o...
An index map displaying the routes described in Volume I of a series of publications on ‘Routes in Persia’ [Iran] produced by the Division of the Chief of Staff, Army Headquarters India. The map covers routes in northeast and central Persia, spanning an area between the Caspian Sea, Yazd, Kirma...
