‘Plan of the Peninsula or Cape of Aden Exhibiting the Proposed Military Limits. Aden July 1855’
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Imprint: Copied & Lithographed in the Office of the Chief Engineer at the Presidency, Bombay 27th December 1862. Signed by R. Phayre Lieutenant-Colonel Quarter Master General. Distinctive Features: Plan of the Aden peninsula shows the military site and existing town with public buildings...
'Sketch Map shewing the Routes between Constantinople and India by John Walker’
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Imprint: Lithographed by J.&C. Walker. Produced about 1827 when John and Charles Walker’s partnership started. Distinctive Features: Hand coloured outline map of the Middle East showing land routes and waterways in the region with distances reported.
‘Plans and Sections of the proposed sea defences on Seera Island, Aden’
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Distinctive Features: Compiled and signed by a Special Committee on the Aden Defences formed of Engineers Lieutenant Colonel C.W. Grant and Major Artillery William Jacob, Bombay 23rd April 1844. Contains plan showing position of Lower Tower and batteries with traversing platforms on the summi...
‘Plans and Sections of Seera Mole in the Front Bay of Aden’
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Distinctive Features: Compiled and signed by a Special Committee on the Aden Defences formed of Engineers Lieutenant Colonel C.W. Grant and Major Artillery William Jacob, Bombay 23rd April 1844. Includes outline plan with corresponding sections. Lettered for reference with water levels and mea...
[28a] A New Chart Of The Group Of Islands Commonly Called Saugor Island, Comprehending Channel Creek Or Northern Part Of Lacam's Channel From Edmonstones Island To Frederick's Point, And The Navigation Along The Western Side Of The Saugor Islands To The New Anchorage; Also A Survey Of Thornhill's Channel.
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Drawn from the Surveys of the Hon: Company's Marine Surveyor and his Assistants, in the years 1816 and 1817. Scale of 10 [sea] miles [= 13.38"]. Manuscript copy by Barlow. With 'A description of the Creeks of Saugor Island, communicated by Commodore Hayes' by C. Barnard, 1819. 'Copied from th...
Map 3 from a 'Spare set of 6 maps for use with Richardson'sTibetan Précis'
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A topographical map of the frontier area between Tibet and China. Sheet No. 3 'Chinese Proposals for a Frontier Settlement 1915-1919', 1947, at a scale of approximately 1:3,831,771. Richardson's Tibetan Précis refers to items at IOR/L/PS/12/3983 and IOR/M/4/3117.
