‘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: Calcutta, Lithographed by Order of the Supreme Government of India at the Surveyor General’s Office. Distinctive Features: Title continues: ‘Inscribed to Brigadier General Sir John Malcolm Knight of the Royal Persian Order of the Lion and Sun’. Below title Aaron Arrowsmith’s impri...
‘Persia Compiled Principally from Original Authorities by Captain (Local Major) O.B.C.ST. John, (Royal Engineers) by Order of H.M. Secretary of State for India’
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Imprint: Stanford’s Geographical Estab[lishmen]t, Charing Cross. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. General map of Persia compiled by Captain Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John by order of H.M. Secretary of State for India. Map shows various routes including Pottinger’s expediti...
Distinctive Features: Sketch map of Bushire and vicinity showing settlements and location of wells with drinking water. Includes notes on coast lines and seasonal currents in the wetland area. Shoals in the Bushire Bay stippled and coloured yellow.
Plan of Bushire in 1853 with the Forts and Shewing Approximately the Works Since Added. Made by Mid.n. A.W. Stiffe, in 1853, Under the Orders of Lieut: Constable, I. N.
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Imprint: Calcutta, lithographed by H.M. Smith at the Surveyor Generals Office. Signed by the Deputy Surveyor General. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by contours. Sketch map of Bushire showing the fortifications and location of the British Residency building, the Persian Flagstaff (flag...
Rough Sketch of the Peninsula on Which Bushire is Situated Shewing the Landing Place and Different Positions of the Force. From the 7th to the 10th Dec. 1856, When the Place Surrendered
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Imprint: Calcutta, lithographed by H.M. Smith at the Surveyor Generals Office. Signed by Major John Hill, Commanding Engineer Persian Field Force. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by contours. Sketch map of Bushire showing the position of the British fleet on the 6th of December 1856, as...
Sketch of the Attack on Bushire. December 10th. 1856
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Imprint: Calcutta, Lithographed by H.M. Smith at the Surveyor Generals Office. Signed by the Major Deputy Surveyor General at bottom right. Distinctive Features: Depths shown by soundings recorded in fathoms at low water. Sketch plan showing in red the positions of the British fleet on the ...
Distinctive Features: Relief shown pictorially. Hand drawn sketch map showing Bushier and surrounding area with routes indicated by red dotted line and settlements represented pictorially. Shows the location of sulphur mines south of Shombag [Shonbeh]. Title from ‘A Catalogue of Manuscript ...
Persian Plan of the Town and Fortifications of Bushire, previous to the bombardment by the British in 1856
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Distinctive Features: Labelled for reference. Includes two sections in the right margin and a descriptive note in the bottom right-hand corner of sheet. Inscriptions: Signed by Felix Jones, British Political Resident in the Gulf of Persia, and Political Agent to the Persian Expeditionary For...
‘Bū-Shehr Peninsula. By Lieut. A.W. Stiffe. H.M.I.N.’
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours. Preliminary sketch for the printed map of Bū-Shehr Peninsula [Būshehr] produced by Lieutenant Arthur William Stiffe to illustrate the military campaign of 1856-1857 with corrections to 1873 inserted in red. Shows positi...
‘Abū-Shahr Peninsula. By Lieut. A.W. Stiffe. H.M.I.N.’
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Imprint: Published by order of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India in Council. Signed in the bottom left-hand corner ‘Trel. Saunders, Engraver 1875’; and in the bottom right-hand corner ‘A.W. Stiffe delt.’. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours. Map...
