Letter from Gunpatrao and Khanderao, Gaikwads, Baroda to Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General, and Special Commissioner, Baroda
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Letter enclosing a memorial submitted for the attention of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India containing their claims to the Gadi (throne) of Baroda. The memorial contains details of their ancestry in support of their claim, and of the claim of Sadashivrao and their reasons for it not be...
Letter from the undersigned Sirdars, etc. of the Baroda Sate to Philip Sandys Melvill, Agent to the Governor-General of India, Baroda
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Letter regarding the policies being pursued by Sir T Mahadevrao (Sir Tanjore Madavha Rao) in the administration of the Baroda state, which had been entrusted to him owing to the minority of His Highness Sieajeerao Gaekwar (Sayajirao Gaekwad III), which the Sirdars believed had deprived them of s...
Letter from Damodhur Trinbuck Punt, late Private Secretary to His Highness Mulherao Maharaja, Breach Candy Road No.472, Bombay to Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding circumstances that had arisen owing to his having taken part in the trial of His Highness the ex Gaekwad Mulherao Maharaja of Baroda and detailing the guarantee agreed between himself and Pelly for his testimony, in particular the allowance which he had been receiving from the G...
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
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Distinctive Features: Nautical chart of the Persian Gulf compiled from the surveys carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers between 1820 and 1829, with place names given in both English and Arabic. The chart was first published in 1832 by James Horsburgh and engraved by Richard Bateman. Th...
A collection of maps accumulated by Sir Lewis Pelly during his career with the East India Company and Indian Civil Service. The maps can be broadly divided into two topics: Maps relating to the Persian Gulf, showing the various explorations which occured prior to and during Sir Lewis Pelly's ti...
Map to illustrate Baron C.A. de. Bodes route from Kazerun to Shushter through the Countries of the Manasoni Khoghi & Bakhtyari Tribes in 1841
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Shows the routes of the expeditions: the author, Baron Clement Augustus de Bode, by red line; McDonald Kinneirs by blue line and Rawlinsons by orange and black line (the key however states the line is also red).
Map of Maritime Arabia with the opposite Coasts of Africa and Persia
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Imprint: Lithographed in the Chief Engineer's Office by E Huskeljee and E Kumroodeen, Bombay. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Below the title note 'reduced in the Quarter Master Generals Office from an Original Map by Colonel T Dickinson, Chief Engineer. Signed Neil Campbel...
Map of Maritime Arabia with the opposite coasts of Africa and Persia
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Imprint: Lithographed in the Chief Engineer's Office by E. Huskeljee and E. Kumroodeen, Bombay. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Below the title note ‘Reduced in the Quarter Master Generals Office from an Original Map by Colonel T Dickinson, Chief Engineer. Signed Neil Camp...
Map of Damara and Great Namaqua Land and the Adjacent Countries to and beyond Lake Ngami as explored and surveyed by Messrs Galton & Andersson
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Imprint: London, Published by Hurst and Blackett. Drawn by E Ravenstein; Engraved on stone by Schenck and McFarlane Lithographers, Edinburgh. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Below title the note 'The coast from 20° South lat, to Walfisch Bay is from the survey of Capt. Will...
Sketch of the Course of the Shat Ul 'Arab from the Entrance to Mahomerah
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Imprint: Lithographed in the Office of the Chief Engineer of P.W. by H Essoobyee, and F de Jesus, Bombay, 7 March 1857. Distinctive Features: Below title the note: 'by Captain Felix Jones, Resident Persian Gulf, and Captain M. Green, Sind Horse, constructed while reconnoitring the Enemy's po...
