Persia compiled principally from original authorities by Captain (local Major) O. B. C. St. John (Royal Engineers) by order of H.M. Secretary of State for India.
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Stanford’s Geographical Estabt., Charing Cross [c1875]. Map in six parts (‘Persia, Sheet 1’, ‘Persia, Sheet 2’, etc.), joined. 1:1,013,760, 16 miles to 1 inch. Title and scale on sheet 4. Key to pronunciation of names. Covers 44°E-65°E, 25°N-40°N. Includes four sections of terrain (60 mile...
Lithographed at the Surveyor General’s Office, Calcutta, December 1877, from an original supplied by the Foreign Department. ‘Scale 4 inches = 1 Statute mile’ [error for 1:63,360]. Note of routes surveyed. Covers 56°E-58°E, 37°N-39°N. Hand-coloured. Dissected on cloth.
Copy of Map furnished by Russian Minister in Tehran to Persian Government for Negotiation of Akhal-Khorassan Boundary Question December 1881.
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Lithographed at the Intelligence Dept. War Office, Feb 1882 [‘Intelligence Dept. No. 114.’]. 1:420,000 or 10 versts or 6.629 miles = 1 inch. Shows ‘Frontier claimed by Russia’, and ‘Frontier agreed to by Persia’, with note of original Russian claim. Covers 55°E-59°E, 37°N-38°30´N. Hand-colour...
Map illustrating Colonel Gerard’s Journey through Kurdistan.
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Photozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Calcutta, August 1885 [‘I.B., May 1885, Exd. J.A.A.’]: Chas. Strahan, Major R.E., Assistant Surveyor General. 1 inch = 16 miles [1:1,013,760]. Note: ‘The principal places have been projected by Lat. and Long. as furnished by Colonel Gerard in h...
Sheet I to Sheet VIII of the Frontier between Russia and Persia to the East of the Caspian according to the Russo-Persian Treaty of Dec 9th 1881.
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Lithographed from a tracing in 8 sheets made at Tehran from the map in the possession of the Persian Government. Lithd. at the Intelligence Branch, War Office June 1886. 1:84,000. Map in eight sheets. Table of references on Sheet I. Hand-coloured. Note of receipt ‘In Mr. Nicolson’s No. 58, ...