The volume, marked 'For Official Use Only', is a first edition Handbook of Asir, prepared by Captain K Cornwallis of the Arab Bureau, Cairo, and printed by the Government Press, Cairo, 1 June 1916. The volume opens with a prefatory note on compilation and sources and is then divided into sevent...
The map is of the region of Asir, in Arabia. The map shows tribal areas, routes, some physical geography, towns, and villages. Figures in red refer to numbered routes in the accompanying volume, Handbook of Asir. The map was printed by the Survey of Egypt in 1916.
The volume, marked confidential, is Where's Where in Arabia, Mesopotamia and Persia, prepared by the General Staff, India, and printed in Simla by the Government Central Branch Press, in 1915. The volume is an index of places, arranged alphabetically. Each place has reference to the Survey of In...
The volume, marked confidential, is Field Notes on Sa'udi Arabia, 1935, prepared by Donald Banks of the Air Ministry, by command of the Air Council. The volume begins with a brief forward (folio 2) in which the geographical scope is outlined. The volume is then divided into nine chapters (I-IX)...
Index to Place Names on Degree Sheets. (1st Series of Additions - August 1917)
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The volume, marked confidential, is Index to Place Names on Degree Sheets. (1st Series of Additions - August 1917), prepared at the General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India. The volume is an index of place names with reference to the Survey of India degree sheets upon which each place can b...
Treaty and Undertakings in force between the Government of Iraq and H. H. the Sultan of Najd
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The file contains an English and Arabic copy of the Treaty of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], an agreement between the Government of Iraq and the Sultan of Najd, 'Abdul Aziz ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥman bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], signed at Mohammerah by delegates on 5 May 1922, and the Uqai...
Report on the Arms Traffic, 1st July 1911 to 30th June 1913 (including a note on the operations of the Makran Field Force in April and May 1911)
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The volume, marked confidential, is Report on the Arms Traffic, 1st July 1911 to 30th June 1913 (including a note on the operations of the Makran Field Force in April and May 1911), prepared by the General Staff, India, and printed at the Government Monotype Press, 1913. The report begins with a...
Journal of a Journey from Persia to India through Herat and Candahar. Also Report of a Journey to the Wahebee Capital of Riyadh in Central Arabia
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The volume is Journal of a Journey from Persia to India through Herat and Candahar and Report of a Journey to the Wahabee Capital of Riyadh, in Central Arabia,written by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and printed for Government by The Education Society's ...
British Enactments in Force in Native States, Volume V: Orders relating to Railways in Native States
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The volume is British Enactments in Force in Native States, Volume V: Orders relating to Railways in Native States. Originally compiled by John Molesworth Macpherson, Secretary of the Government of India, Legislative Department, it was revised and continued up to 15 August 1899 by A Williams, fo...
Manual of Instructions to Officers of the Political Department of the Government of India
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The volume is the second edition of Manual of Instructions to Officers of the Political Department of the Government of India, printed by the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924. The volume begins with extracts from the proclamations and speeches of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, and King G...