Distinctive Features: Series of six hand drawn longitudinal sections related to Jibbul Huddeed (Aden) compiled and signed by a Special Committee on the Aden Defences formed of Engineers Major Artillery William Jacob and Lieutenant-Colonel C.W. Grant, Bombay 11th September 1843. Produced to ac...
‘Section on Point N. Roadway following a natural pathway on the Outer Side of Munsooree Range at a place called Shaib as marked N. in the Plan’
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Distinctive Features: Compiled and signed by a Special Committee on the Aden Defences formed of Engineers Major Artillery William Jacob and Lieutenant-Colonel C.W. Grant, Bombay 11th September 1843. Produced to accompany the ‘Plan shewing the Old Line of Field Works across the Isthmus of Aden ...
‘Section along ridge from Officer’s Tower, to k (L, K & K)’
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Distinctive Features: Hand drawn longitudinal section compiled and signed by a Special Committee on the Aden Defences formed of Engineers Major Artillery William Jacob and Lieutenant-Colonel C.W. Grant, Bombay 11th September 1843. Produced to accompany the ‘Plan shewing the Old Line of Field ...
East India or China Pilot, containing 126 charts chiefly published by James Horsburgh
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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. Series of nautical charts published in London by the Hydrographer to the East India Company.
‘Chart of the Red Sea, Comprising the part above Jiddah, on Mercator’s Projection, Compiled from a Stasimetric Survey, Executed in the Years 1830, 31, 32 & 33 in the Hon.ble Comp.y's Ship Palinurus by Com.der R. Moresby, and Lieu.t T.G. Carless, Indian Navy. T.G. Carless, Draughts.n I.N. Engraved by J.&C. Walker’
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Imprint: Published by John Walker, Geographer to the Honourable East India Company. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Nautical chart of the Red Sea from Suez to Jiddah [Jeddah] compiled from the surveys carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers sh...