‘Chart of the coast of Persia from Kooe Mubarrack to Kurchee. Surveyed by Commander G.B. Brucks and Lieut. S.B. Haines H.C. Marine 1829’
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Imprint: Published by James Horsburgh Hydrographer to the Hon. E.I. Compy. Augt. 1st 1832. Additions 1857. Febr. 1863. Additions & Corrections at the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, Oct. 1862. Engraved by Rd. Bateman 85 Long Acre. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depths s...
Imprint: Photozincographed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Brach, Survey of India, Dehra Dún, C. Dyson, photo; C. G. Ollenbach Zinco. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Shows route of the submarine telegraph cable laid in 1864 and 1867. Includes a note on the sources us...
Chart of the Strait of Babellmandell 'Made by John Friend Against ye East India hous in leaden hall Street London Ano Dno 1714'
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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...
‘Persian Gulf single charts.–Memoir.–Lieut. Houghton’
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The volume contains a ‘memoir’ written by Lieutenant Michael Houghton, draughtsman on board the Honorable Company’s ship Discovery, which consists of a description of places encountered during the East India Company’s survey of the Persian Gulf during the 1820s. The memoir covers the survey’s jo...
‘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’
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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 An unpublished volume illustrated with 20 watercolour coastal views depicting the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf drawn by Lieutenant Michael Houghton during the survey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
‘Bushire Residency Records: An Alphabetical Index of the subject matter of (i) Old Records, and (ii) “A” Series Bound Volumes compiled in 1945’
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The volume is an index of the records created by staff at the Persian Gulf Residency between around 1850 and 1945. The old records (folios 1-6) are a list of files referred to by Tuson (1979) as ‘old records’ or the ‘old system.’ The title and date of each file is listed, alongside its file numb...
The indexes, registers and filing guides contain lists of the subject files created by the Residency in the Persian Gulf between circa 1880 and 1947, including all those created under the auspice of the A and B Series, and Confidential Office. Each index is typewritten, but features numerous hand...
The volume is an index of those files created by staff at the Persian Gulf Residency that came under the general heading ‘B Series’. The B Series was created in 1945 from those A Series files (see the A Series index at Z/R/15/1/1) that remained open at the time. New B series files were opened un...
The volume is an index of those files created by staff at the Persian Gulf Residency, that came under the general heading ‘B Series’. The B Series was created in 1945 from those A Series files (see the A Series index at Z/R/15/1/1) that remained open at this time. New B series files were opened ...
The volume is an index of those files created by staff at the Persian Gulf Residency, that came under the jurisdiction of the Confidential Office of the Residency. Under each subject heading, the subject number, file number and title of the file is listed. A note at the front of the volume (fol...
