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'
Scope & Content:
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’
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...
‘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’
Scope & Content:
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 An unpublished volume illustrated with 20 watercolour coastal views depicting the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf drawn by Lieutenant Michael Houghton during the survey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
