‘A Plan of the Backwater of Rassulkyma with the Soundings off the Entrance by Lieut.t Brucks’
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Distinctive Features: Depths shown by soundings. Hand drawn nautical chart of the shores of the Persian Gulf compiled from the survey carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers in 1822 showing Rassulkyma [Ras al-Khaimah]. The buildings in Mana village and ruins of Rassulkyma shown pictoriall...
Military Report on the Kohat District, Third Edition
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Two copies, numbers 222 (IOR/X/12172/13/1) and 223 (IOR/X/12172/13/2). For official use only. General Staff India, 1928. Simla: Government of India Press, 1928. Contents [Outline]:GlossaryChapter I. HistoryChapter II. Geography, Climate and healthChapter III. Part I. - Population of Kohat Distric...
‘Route of Lieut. McDonald 12th N.I. & Ensign Monteith Engineers. Performed by Order of Brig.r Gen.l Malcolm Embassador to the Court of Persia. W. Monteith Ensgn Engineers'
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Hand drawn sketch map showing the routes between Bussora [Basrah] and Busheer [Bushehr], Desfull [Dzzful] and Sheras [Shiraz]. Inscriptions: On the recto in the bottom right-hand corner: ‘John Garstin Colonel of Engr. Surveyor General Fort Wi...
‘Plan shewing the Old Line of Field Works across the Isthmus of Aden and the line of Permanent Works proposed for construction’
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Distinctive Features: Include enlarged plan: ‘Plan of temporary Field Work thrown up to screen the workmen, Guards &ca.’ and two sections. Lettered for reference with some measurements reported. Inscriptions: On recto: In the lower left-hand corner: ‘Executive Engineer’s Office Aden June...
‘Abū-Shahr Peninsula. By Lieut. A.W. Stiffe. H.M.I.N.’
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Imprint: Published by order of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India in Council. Signed in the bottom left-hand corner ‘Trel. Saunders, Engraver 1875’; and in the bottom right-hand corner ‘A.W. Stiffe delt.’. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours. Map...
99 Sketch Of Part Of Estuary Of The Hooghly, From Cowcolly To Mud Point Surveyed June 1844, From Mud Point To Culpee [Surveyed] Sept: 1844.
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Scale 1 inch to 2000 yards. Manuscript copy by Barlow. Annotated by Barlow: 'Traced from the original in the Bankshall: no lithographed or Engraved copies were taken to my knowledge.'
Manuscript hydrographic chart covering parts of the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea along a 230-mile length of the Makran coast from Jashak Bay, Persia [Khalij-e Jask, Iran] eastwards to Karachi, British India [now in Pakistan]. Also includes the northern coast of the Arabian Peninsula extending fo...
'Survey of Bally Creek, by J. Rennell, Surveyor. Without title.' - India Office map catalogue
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Sketch map depicting course of Bally Creek flowing south-eastwards into the Hooghly River at Bally, north-east India. Portrays hydrology, soundings, relief by hachures, vegetation, settlements and place names, and includes topographical notes. The verso bears the note 'Bally Creek. Rennell. MS....
Plans and technical drawings of devices in Aden proposed by Lieutenant Colonel C.W. Grant
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Distinctive Features: Compiled and signed by a Special Committee on the Aden Defences formed of Engineers Major Artillery William Jacob and Major C.W. Grant, Bombay 23rd April 1844. Contains: 1. ‘FURNANCE for heating SHOT’. 2. ‘Raft for extending a Pier into deep water Composed of Hollow ...
