'Karte von Alt-Indien zu Prof[essor]. Chr[istian]. Lassens Indischer-Altherthumskunde, bearbeitet und gezeichnet von Dr. H. Kiepert. A Map of Ancient India, with the Indian Classical and Principal Modern Names, to Illustrate Pof[essor] Lassen's Indian Antiquities. Drawn by Henry Kiepert L.L.D. at Berlin. 1853.'
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IOR/X/397/1 and IOR/X/397/2 are identical copies of the same map. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures, settlements, modern and ancient place names, and ethnographic regions, and includes linguistic notes. Also contains insets entitled 'Sketch of the Boundaries of Languages Now Existent in In...
Sheet 12 made up from Sheet 12 NE [Morvi; no date visible], Sheet 12 NW [Bhuj; no date visible], Sheet 12 SE [Rajkot] published January 1881, and Sheet 12 SW [Dwarka] published December 1885.
Hadramaut. von Carl Zimmermann, Second Lieutenant im 21ten Jnfanterie Regiment, Berlin 1846 bei G. Reimer. (Zum Atlas von Vorder Asien gehörig)
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Shows routes of various expeditions with a table of explorers and dates of their journeys listed at left centre of sheet at IOR/X/2942/5/2. Includes inset: ‘Plan von Aden und des umliegenden Landes’ with soundings recorded and note: ‘nach den P...
'Survey of Hooringottah and Mudomuty Rivers. No title. Surveyed in the years 1768 and 1769 by John Ritchie.' - India Office map catalogue.
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Covers the Hooringottah and Mudomuty rivers in Bengal, India. Portrays hydrology including tidal sands and soundings, generalised vegetation, settlements and place names, and includes topographical notes, one of which refers to an expedition of 1773.
[Map of South Eastern Tibet and Adjacent Countries], 'Provisional Issue, Rough Compilation' S.D.O. No. 461 a & b
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Three copies of a pair of topographical maps covering parts of present-day Tibet, Bhutan, India and China: sheets 1 and 2 of the North Eastern Frontier Series (N.E.F.). Produced by Simla Drawing Office, No. 461 a and b.
'Mapp of the Mallabar Coast and of the Costa di Pescaria No. 3. Rec'd 13th November 1705 by ye Dutchess via Fort St. George.'
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The map bears no title but is endorsed as above; the verso bears the same note. Portrays coastal hydrography, pictorial relief, coastal settlements and indigenous land divisions.