Inscriptions: On verso: ‘Delivered to Library 12th Octr 1811’ In red ink: 'L.31'. Labels: Two East India Company Library’s stamps on recto and verso (oval , black); and India Office stamp (oval, black)
Distinctive Features: Relief shown pictorially. Hand drawn sketch map showing Bushier and surrounding area with routes indicated by red dotted line and settlements represented pictorially. Shows the location of sulphur mines south of Shombag [Shonbeh]. Title from ‘A Catalogue of Manuscript ...
Outline of the countries between Delhi and Constantinople by A. Arrowsmith 1814. Additions to 1816
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hatching. Shows the overland routes between Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and Delhi, capital of British India. Countries outlined in colour.
Imprint: Lithographed at the Topographical Depôt, Horse Guards, War Office. Major C.W. [Charles William] Wilson, R.E. [Royal Engineers] Director. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Depth shown by contours. General map of Tihama El Yemen region [Tihāmat al Yaman, present-day Yem...
Distinctive Features: Sketch map of Bushire and vicinity showing settlements and location of wells with drinking water. Includes notes on coast lines and seasonal currents in the wetland area. Shoals in the Bushire Bay stippled and coloured yellow.
Inscriptions: On verso: 'Muscat Cov: May 21st 1787' 'Delivered to Library 12th Octr 1811'; In red ink: 'L.32' . Labels: Two East India Company Library’s stamps on recto and verso (oval, black)
‘Sketch of the Coast Between Kurrachee and Bunder Abbas’
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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 ...
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Hand drawn sketch map of the El Hasa oasis with location of fort, Bedouin villages and plantations indicated; watercourses coloured blue. Landmarks lettered for reference and explained in a key below title at bottom left. Oriented with west to ...
Hydrographic chart of Jashk Shoal [Mason Shoal] in the Gulf of Oman, three miles south-west of Ras Jashk [Damagheh-ye-Jask] cape on the coast of south-east Persia [Iran]. Portrays the shoal, cape and intermediary soundings. Also shows Jashk [Jask] Fort and other coastal landmark features. Signif...
Distinctive Features: Depths shown by soundings. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Tracing of a sketch map of the Musandam Peninsula showing in red line the proposed track of telegraph cable. Includes a note on the sources used in compilation of the map signed ‘C.G. Constable Command...