Map on four sheets numbered I-IV, produced from an original survey by Richard John Preece, Assistant Superintendent of the Telegraph Department, Persia. The maps show the road between Shiraz and Jashk [Jāsk], as travelled by Preece on a journey on foot in 1884, and described in the enclosing vol...
Map No 4 ‘PLAN SHOWING THE WATERWAYS & DISTRIBUTION OF HELMUND DELTA’
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The map shows the Helmund River Delta. The scale is 1 inch to 2 miles. It was produced from a sketch made by Surgeon Major George Washington Brazier-Creagh. It bears a stamp which reads ‘Intelligence Division. 14 Dec 1898’. The map bears the printing statements ‘Reg. No. 162, Print., I.–July.9...
The map shows Basra, Magil [Al Ma‘qil], and the surrounding area. Key geographical features, specifically the Shatt Al-Arab and its creeks, are indicated in black ink. Also shown in black ink are: villages, buildings, railway lines, and numerous other facilities, most labelled with text (P. of W...
‘Lower Mesopotamia between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf’
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The map is printed in four colours, with each colour being used to indicate a different category of features: blue: hydrographical features, including the river systems of the Euphrates and Tigris, canals, marshes and lakes, and their names. Notes on the flooding characteristics of different geo...
The map shows the Persian Gulf and adjacent countries including regions of Arabia, the Turkish Empire, Persia, Russian Turkistan [Turkestan], Afghanistan, and Baluchistan. It was originally created by the War Office, June 1908, with additions made in April 1911, and is found in the volume 'Repor...
Plan showing three sections of the route taken by Colonel Augustus Le Messurier in 1887
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Plan marked paper no. 7D, indicating the height above sea level (expressed in feet) of three sections of the route taken from Rasht to Bushire, by Colonel Augustus Le Messurier of the Bombay Engineers, in 1887. The three sections are as follows: rough section along the high road from Shiraz to K...
Plan of Mosul and Surrounding Country, Corrected from Jones' Survey
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Map found at folio 87 of 'Reconnaissances in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, North-West Persia and Luristan, Volume I', by F R Maunsell. The map is focused on Mosul on the west bank of the Tigris, and Nineveh on the east. It shows buildings, roads, hydrology, and indicates vegetation. The following r...