A Collection of Maps of India, Adjacent Countries and the Indian Ocean, previously owned by Enoch Powell, MP
Scope & Content:
This collection has 14 sheets, some of which are composites of individual sheets pasted to form contiguous areas of India and adjacent countries. The most recent printed date on the maps is 1946, the oldest is 1923. The manuscript additions on some maps are undated. The envelope associated with t...
‘Chart of the South East Coast of Arabia, on Mercator’s Projection, Compiled from a Trigonometric Survey, by S.B. Haines, Commander, Indian Navy. Assisted by Lieu.ts Wellsted, Sanders, Jardine & Shepherd, also Mess.rs Ball, Stevens, Rennie, Cruttenden, Grieve & Barrow, Midshipmen, 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 southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula from Bab-el-Mandeb Strait to the east of Ridah [Ar Raydah, Yemen] com...
Covers Jashak Bay, Persia [Khalij-e Jask, Iran], including Cape Jashak [Damagheh-ye Jask] and Mason Shoal. Portrays hydrology, including depths by soundings and contours, sands and anchorages, relief by shading, sand dunes, vegetation, settlements, telegraphs and place names, and includes topog...
‘Chart of the Gulf of Persia. Constructed from the Trigonometrical Surveys Made by Order of The Hon.ble the Court of Directors of the United English East India Company; by George Barnes Brucks, Commander H.C. Marine. 1830. Engraved by R. Bateman, 85 Long Acre’
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Imprint: Published by James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the East India Company. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depth shown by soundings. Nautical chart of the Persian Gulf compiled from the surveys carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers between 1820 and 1829, with pla...
'Part of the Arabian Side of the Persian Gulf; from Core Abdullah to Ras Reccan. Sheet 1st. and 5th.'
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Covers a 180-mile length of coastline southwards from Core Abdullah [Khawr Abd Allah, Iraq/Kuwait] to Ras el Ghar [Ras al Ghar, Saudi Arabia]. The printed sheet has been enhanced by watercolour. Engraved by Bateman & Son. [NB Ras Reccan is the northern point of the Qatar Peninsula, and sh...
Chart of the Persian Gulf, Arabian Side, in five sheets. The five sheets are combined on to four maps as follows: 'Sheet 2nd.' IOR/X/3635/2 'Sheet 3rd.' IOR/X/3635/3 'Sheet, 2 and 4.' IOR/X/3635/4 'Sheet 1st. and 5th.' IOR/X/3635/5 Covers the Arabian Peninsula coast from Core Abdullah [Khaw...
‘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...
‘The Several Bays near Cape Aden, on the Arabian Coast, surveyed Trigonometrically, 1836. 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 and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Nautical chart of the coast of the Gulf of Aden compiled from the surveys carried out by the Bombay Marine’s offic...
‘Trigonometrical Survey of Clarence’s Strait, Gulf of Persia. By Commr. G.B. Brucks and Lieutt. S.B. Haines. H.C. Marine 1828. Engraved by R. Bateman. Sheet 1st’
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Imprint: Published by James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the East India Company. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depth shown by soundings. Nautical chart of the Clarence Strait in the Persian Gulf compiled from the surveys carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers between 1...
Trigonometrical Survey of Clarence’s Strait, Gulf of Persia. By Commr. G.B. Brucks and Lieutt. S.B. Haines. H.C. Marine 1828. ‘Engraved by R. Bateman. Sheet 2nd’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Published by James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the East India Company. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depth shown by soundings. Nautical chart of the Clarence Strait in the Persian Gulf compiled from the surveys carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers between 1...
