193. 'Central Asia, Persia, Afghanistan, &c. Bolshevik and Pan-Islamic Movements and connected information. Issue No. 3. Supplement. 1st to 31st December 1919'

Date:

1920/1920

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Afghanistan
Persia
Turkestan

Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

194. 'Asia. Afghanistan, Persia, Turkestan, Burma, and China. Chronological Table of Events from June 1885 to December 1885.'

Contributor:

Political Agent, Kuwait (author)

Date:

1888/1913

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Afghanistan
Koweit
Persia

Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

195. 'ASIA. PERSIAN GULF'

Date:

1933/1933

Language:

English

Extent:

1 map

196. 'ASIA. PERSIAN GULF.'

Contributor:

Admiralty (publisher)

Date:

1907/1911

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Persian Gulf

Extent:

1 map

197. 'ASIA. PERSIAN GULF. COMPILED BY COMMR. C.G. CONSTABLE AND LIEUT. A.W. STIFFE, I.N. 1860'

Date:

1899/1900

Language:

English

Extent:

1 map

198. 'ASIA. PERSIAN GULF. COMPILED BY COMMR. C.G. CONSTABLE AND LIEUT. A.W. STIFFE, I.N. 1860'

Date:

1900/1900

Language:

English

Extent:

1 map

199. 'Rashīd Family'

Date:

1916/1916

Language:

English

Extent:

1 genealogical table

200. 'Irene on board Arabia'. Photographer: unknown

Date:

1898/1898

Language:

English

Extent:

1 b&w albumen print

201. 'Irene.' Photographer: unknown

Date:

1898/1898

Language:

English

Extent:

1 b&w albumen print

202. ‘APRIL’

Date:

1856/1856

Language:

English

Extent:

1 map

203. 'Abu Musa'

Date:

1910/1910

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Abu Musa Island

Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

204. ‘Abu Mussa’

Date:

1907/1907

Language:

German

Extent:

1 map

205. ‘ABU-MUSA. Sketch B’

Date:

1909/1909

Language:

English

Extent:

1 map

206. ‘Abou-Shehr or Bushire, Persian Gulf’ / ‘On the road to Dalkin [Daliki] from Bushire showing the mirage’ by Joseph D'Arcy (1780–1846)

Contributor:

Joseph D'Arcy (artist)

Date:

1810/1812

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Bushire

Extent:

1 watercolour drawing on paper

207. 'Parts of 'Iraq and Kuwait - Turkey in Asia'

Date:

1916/1916

Language:

English

Extent:

1 map

208. 'A ruler of the desert'

Contributor:

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (author)

Date:

1916/1916

Language:

English

Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

209. 'YAL SAAD COUNTRY'

Date:

1929/1929

Language:

English

Extent:

1 map

210. ‘Camping grounds at Bahrain’

Date:

1914/1914

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Bahrain
Manama

Extent:

1 file (20 folios)

211. 'The lands of the Eastern Caliphate Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur'

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press (publisher)
Guy Strange (author)

Date:

1905/1905

Language:

English

Extent:

1 volume (536 pages)

212. 'Territory of Kuwait'

Date:

1926/1926

Language:

English

Extent:

1 Map

213. ‘THE TERRITORIES OF HIS HIGHNESS THE KHAN OF KELAT, OR BALUCHISTAN WITH THE ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SIND, THE PUNJAB, AFGHANISTAN AND PERSIA. 1876’

Contributor:

Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier (surveyor)

Date:

1877/1877

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Mekran Coast
Baluchistan

Extent:

1 map on 2 sheets

214. ‘Rocky ground. View to N. of Manzil’

Date:

1899/1899

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Manzil

Extent:

1 photograph

215. 'Subhān Family'

Date:

1916/1916

Language:

English

Extent:

1 genealogical table

216. 'The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis. Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan. To which is added, the coronation of the present King of Persia, Solyman the III.'

Contributor:

John Chardin (author)
Christopher Bateman (publisher)

Date:

1691/1691

Language:

English

Extent:

1 volume (505 pages)

217. 'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.'

Contributor:

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (publisher)
Henry Pottinger (author)
Andrew Strahan (publisher)
George Boulderson Tod (author)

Date:

1816/1816

Language:

English

Extent:

1 volume (423 pages)

218. 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 lithographic print

219. 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 lithographic print

220. 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 lithographic print

221. 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 lithographic print

222. 'ISFAHĀN—URŪJĀN—ARDAL—GURĀB—BĀZUFT—CHILAU'

Date:

1909/1909

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Bakhtīārī

Extent:

1 map

223. 'ISFAHĀN—DEH KURD—'ALĪ KŪH—CHARĪ—BĀZUFT—CHILAU'

Date:

1909/1909

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Bakhtīārī

Extent:

1 map

224. 'Kinder aus der Familie der Benī Schēbah'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 collotype print

225. ‘Ruins of Barracks at Basidu’

Date:

1901/1901

Language:

English

Extent:

1 photograph

226. ‘Ruins of the Hospital at Basidu’

Date:

1901/1901

Language:

English

Extent:

1 photograph

227. ‘Ruins of mess house Basidu H M S “Sphinx” at anchor’

Date:

1901/1901

Language:

English

Extent:

1 photograph

228. ‘Ruins of Commandants house at Basidu’

Date:

1901/1901

Language:

English

Extent:

1 photograph

229. ‘Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka’, by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Contributor:

al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār (photographer)
Christiaan Hurgronje Snouck (creator)

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Geographic region:

Djiddah
Mekka

Extent:

1 three-quarter leather, published volume (c. 82 pages), illustrated with 65 collotype prints, 5 photolithographs, 4 lithographs and 1 other image

230. 'Flags Flown by the Sheikh of Qatar. (Bahrain and Trucial Coast)'

Contributor:

Bahrain Political Agency (creator)
Political Agent, Bahrain (creator)

Date:

1929/1938

Language:

English
Arabic

Extent:

1 file (69 folios)

231. ‘AUGUST’

Date:

1856/1856

Language:

English

Extent:

1 map

232. 'Mitglieder verschiedener Scherifenfamilien in Mekka'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 collotype print

233. 'Mitglieder verschiedener Scherifenfamilien in Mekka'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 collotype print

234. 'Mitglieder verschiedener Scherifenfamilien in Mekka'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 collotype print

235. 'Mitglieder verschiedener Scherifenfamilien in Mekka'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 collotype print

236. 'North end of Awali.' Photographer: Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons

Date:

1956/1956

Language:

English

Geographic region:

ʻAwālī

Extent:

1 b&w silver gelatin print

237. ‘OCTOBER’

Date:

1856/1856

Language:

English

Extent:

1 map

238. ‘My Scrap Book volume V’. Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis (1822–1872)

Contributor:

Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis (artist)

Date:

1855/1856

Language:

English

Geographic region:

South Africa

Extent:

135 folios, including 111 items (4 letters; 5 folios of seals; 1 folio of stamps; 1 printed document; 5 folios of watercolour illustrations of tiles; 1 tracing of a pattern for embroidery; 2 watercolour architectural illustrations of decorated doorways; 4 photographs; 2 handwritten texts; 51 watercolour, pencil or pen and ink drawings; 4 maps, printed; 31 etchings) inserted or pasted into a half bound leather and marbled paper volume

239. ‘My Scrap Book volume III’ Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis (1822–1872)

Contributor:

Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis (artist)

Date:

1850/1853

Language:

English

Geographic region:

South Africa

Extent:

139 folios, including 105 items (68 drawings; 1 hand-drawn map; 1 engraving; 2 lithogaphs; 7 etchings; 11 handwritten documents; 12 printed matter; 3 photographs) inserted or pasted into a half bound leather and marbled paper volume

240. 'Germany and the Middle East'

Contributor:

Secretary of State for India, United Kingdom (author)

Date:

1915/1915

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Germany
Suez Canal
Turkey
Middle East

Extent:

1 folio

241. ‘Germany, Turkey, England and Arabia. [extracts from ‘The Fight for Arabia between Turkey and England’ by Dr Franz Stuhlmann]’

Contributor:

India Office, Secretary to the Political and Secret Department (author)
Franz Ludwig Stuhlmann (author)

Date:

1916/1916

Language:

English

Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

242. ‘Ambak looking SSW’

Date:

1935/1935

Language:

English

Extent:

1 black and white photograph

243. ‘Amir Chah showing W end of valley. Closed by sand drifts. Also Amir Chah thana’

Date:

1899/1899

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Amir Chah

Extent:

1 photograph

244. 'Somali Female Stick-Gatherer'. Photographer: Unknown

Contributor:

Frederick Mercer Hunter (author)

Date:

1873/1877

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Aden

Extent:

1 albumen print

245. 'Activities of Foreign Agents in Saudi Arabia'

Contributor:

British Legation to Saudi Arabia (correspondent)
Political Resident, Persian Gulf (correspondent)
Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (correspondent)
Gray, Mackenzie and Company Limited, shipping agents (correspondent)

Date:

1947/1948

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Ras Tanura
Dhahran

Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

246. 'OBOKH'

Date:

1895/1895

Language:

English
French

Geographic region:

Obokh

Extent:

1 map

247. ‘Obock, Mascate, Bouchire, Bassorah’

Contributor:

Plon (publisher)
Barthélemy Louis de Rivoyre (author)
Saint-Elme Gauthier (illustrator)

Date:

1883/1883

Language:

English
French

Extent:

1 volume (290 pages)

248. 'Further Papers respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression'

Date:

1869/1869

Language:

English
French

Geographic region:

Zanzibar

Extent:

1 volume (25 folios)

249. ‘Papers drawn up by the Persian Government’

Contributor:

HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)
Government of Persia, Qajar dynasty (author)

Date:

1856/1856

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Persia
Herāt

Extent:

1 item (4 folios)

250. 'Papers Respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression'

Contributor:

Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council (correspondent)
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (correspondent)
Sultan of Zanzibar (correspondent)
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland Victoria (correspondent)

Date:

1869/1869

Language:

English

Extent:

1 volume (34 folios)

251. 'Papers re Consular Guard transferred to Town'

Date:

1913/1921

Language:

English

Extent:

1 volume (263 folios)

252. 'Papers relating to transfer of Middle Eastern Affairs to the Colonial Office and creation of a new Department there, 1920-1921, with Cabinet notes of Milner, Montague, Churchill, self, and others'

Contributor:

High Commissioner, Iraq (correspondent)
Air Ministry (correspondent)
Colonial Office (correspondent; subject)
Chief of the General Staff (correspondent)

Date:

1920/1921

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Mesopotamia

Extent:

1 file (68 folios)

253. 'Papers respecting the Protection to be granted to Persons of Persian Origin born in India'

Contributor:

Foreign Office (author)
Government of Bombay, Political Department (correspondent)
Government of India, Foreign Secretary (correspondent)
HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)
Political Resident, Persian Gulf (correspondent)
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (correspondent)
Assistant Advocate General, Bengal (correspondent)

Date:

1876/1876

Language:

English
French

Geographic region:

Persia

Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

254. 'Miscellaneous Papers Regarding Judicial Matters'

Date:

1931/1931

Language:

Arabic
English
Persian

Extent:

1 file (11 folios)

255. 'Aurora (Argonant), Bahrain.' Photographer: Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons

Date:

1956/1956

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Bahrain

Extent:

1 b&w silver gelatin print

256. 'THIM DAYS IS GONE'

Date:

1975/1985

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Kuwait

Extent:

1 file (124 folios)

257. 'Das Reitkameel (Hèdjīn) des Scherīf Jaẖja, eines Sohnes des Scherīf Aẖmed, dessen Vater der berühmte 1886 verstorbene Grossscherīf Abd èl-Muṯṯálib (vergl. über diesen letzten König Mekka’s vom alten Schlage Mekka, Bd. I, S. 16ff., 174ff.), mit einer reich mit Silber gestickten Satteldecke (batāt). Den Zaum hält der Sklave Jaẖja’s; neben diesem steht Jaẖja selbst im Reiteranzug und links in langen Kleidern zwei Scherife niedrigen Ranges'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār

Date:

1886/1889

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

1 collotype print

258. 'Procedure re Claims against Hasawis. Correspondence with the Amir of Hasa'

Contributor:

Political Resident, Persian Gulf (correspondent)
Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (correspondent)
'Abdullāh bin Jilūwī Āl Sa'ūd (correspondent)

Date:

1933/1933

Language:

English
Arabic

Geographic region:

Hasa
Nejd

Extent:

1 file (20 folios)

259. 'Measures for the Recovery of the Company's Property which was plundered by the Sheikh of Busheab on board the Country Ship Hector in the Persian Gulph'

Contributor:

Resident (correspondent)
Government of Bombay (correspondent)

Date:

1805/1808

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Persian Gulf

Extent:

1 item (29 folios)

260. 'The Penetration of Arabia a record of the development of Western knowledge concerning the Arabian Peninsula with illustrations from drawings, photographs, and maps by J. G. Bartholomew.'

Contributor:

Lawrence and Bullen (publisher)
David George Hogarth (author)
John George B Bartholomew (cartographer)

Date:

1904/1904

Language:

English

Extent:

1 volume (359 pages)

261. 'Disposal of conquered territories [Mesopotamia and German East Africa]. Note by India Office'

Date:

1918/1918

Language:

English

Geographic region:

German East Africa
Mesopotamia

Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

262. 'Quarantine control in the Persian Gulf'

Contributor:

Sir Knight John Gilbert Laithwaite (author)

Date:

1928/1928

Language:

English

Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

263. 'Political Department 1854/55 Bushire Residency Persia and Persian Coast'

Date:

1854/1856

Language:

English
Persian

Geographic region:

Karrack (island)
Persia

Extent:

1 file, 6 items (51 folios)

264. 'Administration of Mesopotamia'

Contributor:

India Office, Secretary to the Political and Secret Department (author)

Date:

1918/1918

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Mesopotamia

Extent:

2 folios

265. 'Administration of Mesopotamia. Fortnightly Report by the Civil Commissioner, No. 17 (1st - 15th July [1918])

Contributor:

Civil Commissioner, Mesopotamia (author)

Date:

1918/1918

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Mesopotamia

Extent:

3 folios

266. 'Despatch from Sir M. Durand respecting appointment of Additional Consular Officers in Persia'

Contributor:

HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)

Date:

1899/1899

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Persia

Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

267. 'Despatch by Major-General J. M. Stewart, C.B. on the operations of the Aden Field Force 1st April to 31st August 1918'

Contributor:

Chief of the General Staff, India (recipient)
General Officer Commanding, Aden Field Force (correspondent)

Date:

1918/1918

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Aden

Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

268. 'Despatch by Major-General J. M. Stewart, C.B., on the Operations of the Aden Field Force. From 7th February to 31st March 1918'

Contributor:

General Officer Commanding, Aden Field Force (correspondent)
Chief of the General Staff, India (recipient)

Date:

1918/1918

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Aden

Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

269. 'Reconaissance through Baluchistan and Seistan, 1897'

Contributor:

George Washington Creagh Brazier- (author)

Date:

1897/1897

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Baluchistan
Seistan

Extent:

1 volume (58 folios)

270. 'Additions to Gazetteer of Persia, Volumes II to IV.'

Contributor:

Quarter-Master General in India (correspondent)
1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston George Nathaniel Curzon (correspondent)

Date:

1896/1896

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Persia

Extent:

1 file (185 folios)

271. 'Additions and Corrections to Who's Who in Persia (Volume IV)'

Contributor:

Government Central Branch Press, Simla (publisher)
General Staff Branch, India (author)

Date:

1924/1924

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Yezd
Fars
Bandar Abbas
Kerman
Baluchistan
Laristan

Extent:

1 volume (152 folios)

272. 'Town of Muscat from inland plain.'

Date:

1869/1871

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Muscat

Extent:

1 b&w albumen print

273. 'Re Employment of British I.P.S. Officers by H.M.G.'

Date:

1947/1947

Language:

English

Extent:

1 file (107 folios)

274. 'Statement of Witnesses taken by Colonel Phayre'

Date:

1874/1874

Language:

English

Extent:

1 file (20 folios)

275. ‘Territory of Muscat and Oman (1) Air Navigation Regulations for Civil Aircraft made by His Highness the Sultan of Muscat and Oman (2); Gwadur Aerodrome. Conditions laid down with the Approval of the Sultan to govern the use of the Aerodrome.’

Date:

1929/1939

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Gwādar Aerodrome
Muscat
Oman

Extent:

2 folios

276. 'KALAT STATE AND MUSCAT (OMAN) TERRITORY'

Date:

1946/1946

Language:

English

Extent:

1 map

277. 'NORTH OF PAS PAR DALUN CARAVANSARAI LOOKING E.-N.-E.'

Date:

1893/1983

Language:

English

Extent:

1 drawing

278. 'The Empires and Cities of Asia'

Contributor:

Virtue & Co (publisher)
Alexander Gruar Forbes (author)

Date:

1873/1873

Language:

English

Extent:

1 volume (349 pages)

279. 'WATER SUPPLY'

Date:

1948/1948

Language:

English

Extent:

1 photograph

280. 'England and Russia in the East. A Series of Papers on the Political and Geographical Condition of Central Asia'

Contributor:

Murray, John, publishers (publisher)
Sir 1st Baronet Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (author)

Date:

1875/1875

Language:

English

Extent:

1 volume (393 folios)

281. Eaton: Journal, Richard Heathfield, Chief Mate

Date:

1712/1714

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Gombroon

Extent:

1 file (159 folios)

282. 'Sohn des Arztes'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 collotype print

283. 'Ibn Sa'ud. Notes by Colonel Hamilton, Political Agent, Koweit, based on conversations at Riyadh in November 1917'

Contributor:

Political Agent, Kuwait (author)

Date:

1918/1918

Language:

English

Geographic region:

Arabian Peninsula

Extent:

3 folios

284. 'Neffe des reg. Grossscherifs'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 collotype print

285. 'Neffe des reg. Grossscherifs'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 collotype print

286. 'Neffe des reg. Grossscherifs'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Date:

1888/1888

Language:

German

Extent:

1 collotype print

287. 'Telegraphic Communications with Stations Abroad from the point of view of Imperial Defence. (Second Edition, revised and corrected to 31st May, 1889.)'

Contributor:

War Office, Military Intelligence Division (creator)

Date:

1889/1889

Language:

English

Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

288. 'Air Agreements'

Date:

1930/1951

Language:

English
Arabic
French

Extent:

1 file (153 folios)