‘Mekran coast - Kurrachee to Guadur with Lieut. Ross route from Guadur to Kurrachee’
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Distinctive Features: Unsigned and undated. Map produced about 1864 when the telegraph line opened. Relief shown by hachures. Printed sketch map of the Mekran Coast showing telegraph line with stations in Kurarachee [Karachi], Sonmeauce [Sonmani], Ormarali [Ormara], Pusinee [Pasni] and Guad...
Mekran Coast, Sunmiani to Jask; with Major Ross’ route from Bela through Kowah and the Kej Valley. Also the territory under Muscat, Belooch chiefs’ tributary to Persia, &c.
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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. Distinctive Features: Creation date ‘1867’ from pencil annotation in the bottom centre. Relief shown by hachu...
Map of the Coast from Kurrachee to Guadur showing the route traversed by Major Goldsmid and party
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Tracing of a sketch map of the Makran Coast showing Major Frederick John Goldsmid’s route from Guadur to Kurrachee with the telegraph line (both, build and under construction) marked. The boundary between territories under rule of Imam of Muscat,...
‘Sketch of the Coast Between Kurrachee and Bunder Abbas’
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Undated tracing of a sketch map of the Makran Coast showing the intended telegraph line between Karachi [Kurachee] and Gwadar [Guadur] with stations, as proposed by Major Frederick John Goldsmid. The extent of the territories intersected by the ...
‘A PART OF BELUCHISTAN WITH PART OF MEKRAN AND THE PERSO-BELUCH BOUNDARY DRAWN & COMPILED BY CAPTAIN BERESFORD LOVETT R.E. attached to the Special Mission to Mekran UNDER MAJOR GENERAL F.J. GOLDSMID, C.B. From actual surveys by Major E.C. Ross, Assistant Political Agent, Gwadur; Captain Beresford Lovett, R.E.; and Quarter Master Serjeant D. Bower, R.E.’
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Imprint: Trel. Saunders, India Office. Lithographed from tracings entitled: ‘Beluchistan, comprising Mekran and the Perso-Beluch Boundary’. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Coloured for reference with boundary indicated by pecked line and tinted pink. Routes shown in red and...
‘Map of Western Baluchistan Compiled by Order of H.M. Secretary of State for India to Show the Western Frontier of the Territories H.H. the Khan of Kalat as Determined by the Frontier Commission Under Major General Sir Frederic J. Goldsmid C.B., K.C.S.I., by Major O.B.C. [Oliver Beauchamp Coventry ] St. John R.E.’
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Boundary indicated by pecked line and tinted pink; unexplored areas labelled. Routes of various expeditions shown in colour with names of explorers and dates of their journeys given. Numerous notations on topographic features inser...
‘THE TERRITORIES OF HIS HIGHNESS THE KHAN OF KELAT, OR BALUCHISTAN WITH THE ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SIND, THE PUNJAB, AFGHANISTAN AND PERSIA. 1876’
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Imprint: Published under the direction of Major-General H.L. Thuillier, C.S.I.-F.R.S., Surveyor General of India, Surveyor General’s Office, Calcutta. December 1877. Photozincographed under the Superintendence of Capt.n. J. Waterhouse. Edition statement: ‘Compiled from the most authentic mat...
A New Map of the Empire of Persia from Monsr. D'Anville, First Geographer to the most Christian King, with Several Additions and Emendations
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Imprint: London, published by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. General map of Persia showing roads and the ancient limits with provinces outlined in colour. The southern coast of the Persian Gulf labelled ‘Pearl Bank’ with shoals represe...
‘Indiae Veteris Quatenus Macedonibus Nota Fuit Finitimarumque Regionum Specimen Geographicum’
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Imprint: London, published by William Faden, Geographer to the King and to the Prince of Wales, Charing Cross. Engraved by William Palmer. Title continues: ‘Situm Ac Nomina Locorum Recentioris Aevi Sub Oculos Subjiciens Nec Non Alexandri Itinera Intra Euphratem Et Hyphasin Et Navigationem Nea...
‘Map of the Countries lying between the Euphrates and Indus on the East and West, and the Oxus and Terek and Indian Ocean on the North and South. By John Macdonald Kinneir’
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Imprint: London. Published, by A. Arrowsmith No. 10 Soho Square – Hydrographer to His Majesty. Distinctive Features: Title continues: ‘Inscribed to Brigadier General Sir John Malcolm Knight of the Royal Persian Order of the Lion and Sun’. Relief shown by shading. Map produced to accompan...
