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032-002238107 Material Type Maps and Plans

1. IOR/X

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X
Title:
India Office reference collection of maps
Scope & Content:
The X sequence of India Office maps covers entries in the original 1878 published catalogue (X/1- 4999), maps entered in margins or on interleaves in Catalogue source R, a copy of the 1878 catalogue with room for additions to be added (X/9000-10999), maps subsequently identified in the collection...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
c 70,000 items

2. IOR/X/14000-

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/14000-
Title:
IOR/X/14000-
Scope & Content:
This range contains maps and associated documents acquired by, or transferred to, the India Office Records, in the FCO between 1 January 1974 and 31 March 1982 and in The British Library after 1 April 1982. Numbers IOR/X/14006-14018 not used: items transferred to IOR/X/12000 series and to IOR/W...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 series

3. IOR/X/12000-12999

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12000-12999
Title:
IOR/X/12000-12999
Scope & Content:
This range contains items known to have been elsewhere in the India Office before 1947, but transferred to the IO Maps collection only after 1947. References IOR/X/12000 and IOR/X/12209 have not been used.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
c. 1,500 items

4. IOR/X/1-4999

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/1-4999
Title:
Maps described in the 1878 published catalogue
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1575-1878
Extent:
1 series

5. IOR/X/9000-10999

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/9000-10999
Title:
Scope & Content:
This series contains maps entered in margins or on interleaves in Catalogue source R
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 series

6. IOR/X/11000-11999

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/11000-11999
Title:
Scope & Content:
This range contains maps subsequently identified in the collection as having entered the IO Maps collection before 1947, mainly from other departments, but not then entered in margins or interleaves of copies of the published catalogue.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 series

7. IOR/X/13000-13999

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/13000-13999
Title:
Scope & Content:
This range contains maps acquired by, or transferred to, the India Office Library and Records in the FCO between 15 August 1947 and 31 December 1973. Items acquired by gift or purchase, in common with all such acquisitions of books and private papers by the India Office Library and Records durin...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 series

8. IOR/X/5000-8999

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/5000-8999
Title:
Scope & Content:
This range was reserved for maps acquired after 1878, entered in margins or on interleaves in office copies of the catalogue, but subsequently discarded from the collection on supersession
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 series

9. IOR/X/10308

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/10308
Title:
Chart of the Strait of Babellmandell 'Made by John Friend Against ye East India hous in leaden hall Street London Ano Dno 1714'
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1714
Extent:
1 map

10. IOR/X/10310

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/10310
Title:
‘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’
Scope & Content:
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