'ROUTES IN PERSIA VOLUME III, PART 2'

Title:

'ROUTES IN PERSIA VOLUME III, PART 2'

Contributor:

Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing (publisher)

Date:

1916/1916

Description:

The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Volume III, Part 2. General Staff India 1916(Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, India 1916).The volume contains details of land routes. The information given for each route comprises:number of route;place names forming starting point and destination of route;authority and date;number of stage;names of stages;distance in miles (intermediate and total);remarks (including precise details of the route, general geographical information, and information on smaller settlements, local peoples, religious affiliations, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).The volume also contains a map entitled Routes in Persia Vol. III, Part II., which shows a region of western Persia, indicating routes described in the volume, cities, towns, tracks, railway and telegraph lines, and hydrology. The map was prepared by the Simla Drawing Office and heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Calcutta. A printing statement reads 'S.D.O. No. 1599, Oct. 1916.'.1 volume (171 folios)The volume includes an index to routes (folio 5) and a glossary (folios 168-169), and provides a map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 172).Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 173; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Extent:

1 volume (171 folios)

Rights:

Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100025473256.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100025473256.0x000001_en
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/12/6

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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