Imprint: Photozincographed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Brach, Survey of India, Dehra Dún, C. Dyson, photo; C. G. Ollenbach Zinco. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Shows route of the submarine telegraph cable laid in 1864 and 1867. Includes a note on the sources us...
Chart of the Strait of Babellmandell 'Made by John Friend Against ye East India hous in leaden hall Street London Ano Dno 1714'
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Distinctive Features: Hand drawn nautical chart of the Strait of Babellmandell [Bab-el-Mandeb] at the south entrance into the Red Sea drawn by John Friend in 1714 to “A Scale of Twentey English Miles”. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings with reefs and shoals represented by c...
‘Persian Gulf single charts.–Memoir.–Lieut. Houghton’
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The volume contains a ‘memoir’ written by Lieutenant Michael Houghton, draughtsman on board the Honorable Company’s ship Discovery, which consists of a description of places encountered during the East India Company’s survey of the Persian Gulf during the 1820s. The memoir covers the survey’s jo...
‘Coast Views taken while employed on the Survey of the Arabian Side of the Gulf of Persia By Lieutenant M. Houghton, Draughtsman H.C. Marine’
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Title taken from the Album's title-page. An unpublished volume illustrated with 20 watercolour coastal views depicting the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf drawn by Lieutenant Michael Houghton during the survey carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers between 1820 and 1829. On the verso o...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1825
Extent:
1 volume (23 folios), illustrated with 20 watercolour, pencil and pen and ink drawings
Map showing Persia [Iran], Afghanistan and Beluchistan [Balochistan]. The map indicates boundaries, telegraph lines and railways. The map includes the following statement: 'Compiled under the supervision of Hon. G. Curzon, M.P. by Wm [William] Jno [John] Turner, F.R.G.S. 1891'. Published by Longm...
This map shows the eastern areas of Turkey in Asia, as well as western Persia bordered to the north by the Caucasus mountain range and to the south by the Syrian desert and by the Mediterranean and Caspian seas to the west and east respectively. The map also shows the region's hydrology, mountain...
Sketch Showing Distribution of Yomut and Goklan Turkomans
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This map shows the distribution of Turkoman tribal communities that straddle the basins of the Gourgan and Atreck river basins that flow from the Caucasus into the Caspian Sea. A dotted line across the map separates the Goklan and Yomut tribes. The map also shows the location of the tribal settl...
MAP TO ILLUSTRATE OPERATIONS OF THE CHITRAL RELIEF FORCE, 1895
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Map showing the route of the Chitral Relief Force, with a red line in ink ascending from Kandar to Chitral. The map indicates hydrology, railways, and boundaries, and provides some indication of relief. Produced by the Intelligence Branch of the Government of India's Quarter Master General Depar...
Map showing Chitral state to the north of British India, in modern-day Pakistan. The map indicates hydrology and boundaries, as well as providing some indication of relief. Compiled and reproduced by the Intelligence Branch of the Government of India's Quarter Master General Department.