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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/10309
Title:: ‘Persian Gulf single charts.–Memoir.–Lieut. Houghton’
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1822
Extent:: 1 volume (24 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11093
Title:: Kitab-i Cevahirname - كتاب جواهرنامه
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a treatise on precious stones (including substances like musk and ambergris) written in 917 AH (1511-12 CE) by Yahya İbn-i Mehmet el-Gaffari, who dedicated it to Prince Korkut, son of Sultan Bayezit II. It consists of four mehazin, which are subdivided into evbap. The work ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 953
Extent:: 1 text, 83 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: P.P.1931.k, 1(37)
Title:: Remarkable block of double-refracting spar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view: 'We are enabled, by the kindness of Professor Tennant, to present our readers with a stereograph of a very remarkable specimen of Double-refracting Calcareous Spar, which has lately been imported from Iceland.' A label reading 'Stereoscopic Magaz...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: P.P.1931.k, 1(49)
Title:: Interior of the Museum of Practical Geology. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Stereoscopic view of the domed interior of the Geological Museum, opened in May 1851, with text description, pp. 49-52. The museum is now the Earth Galleries of the Natural History Museum. Published in part no. 3, September 1858.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1858
Extent:: 1 item

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