Imprint:Published by James Horsburgh, Hydrographer to the East India Company.Distinctive Features:Relief shown by shading. Depth shown by soundings.Nautical chart of the northern shores of the Persian Gulf showing the coastline east of Shatt al-Arab to Bushire [Bushehr] compiled from the surveys carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers between 1820 and 1829.Shows sandbanks and rock hazards; location of ruins and old entrance of Indian River marked.1 mapDimensions:504 x 599 mm, on sheet 565 x 777 mm
Imprint:General Staff India.Distinctive Features:Sketch map issued as an ‘Appendix B (1) Serial No. 12 D
2’ to illustrate British military operations on the Euphrates River from 26 June to 25
July 1915. Shows swamps and inundated fields with position for safe landing
marked.Marked ‘For Official Use Only’.In the left-hand corner: ‘S.D.O. No. 1356, September,
1915’.1 mapDimensions:200 x 330
mm
Imprint:Berlin, published by Dietrich Reimer and engraved by Heinrich Mahlmann.Edition statement:Third edition; compiled and prepared by Dr. Heinrich Kiepert.5 maps
Relief shown by hachures; Cross sections inset on sheets 1, 2, and 6; Inset on sheet 6: Vue perspective du Versant occidental de la Chaîne des Montagnes de toute la Région du Sinaï.Scale: 1:510,000
Map showing the area of Bahrain that the crude oil pipe line was proposed to traverse. The pipeline runs from the west coast of Bahrain between Kuraiya [Al Qurayyah] and Jasra [Al Jasrah] to the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO)'s refinery on the west coast near Nuwaidrat [An Nuwaydirāt].The pipeline is marked by two parallel ink lines and coloured red. Its direction is marked using longitute and latitude co-ordinates and distances in feet. Additional longitute and latitude markers are included near the village of Buri [Būrī] to show where the route had been revised.A legend includes a dotted line showing gardens, a dashed line showing roads and a longer dashed line showing the boundary of BAPCO's concession area.1 Map Sheet.Foliation: A pencil number enclosed in a circle is located in the top right hand corner of the recto of the folio.Materials: Parchment sheetDimensions: 440mm x 1010mm
Map showing the area of Bahrain that the crude oil pipe line was proposed to traverse. The pipeline runs from the west coast of Bahrain between Kuraiya [Al Qurayyah] and Jasra [Al Jasrah] to the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO)'s refinery on the west coast near Nuwaidrat [An Nuwaydirāt]. The pipeline is marked by two parallel ink lines and its direction is marked using longitute and latitude co-ordinates and distances in feet.A legend includes a dotted line showing gardens, a dashed line showing roads and a longer dashed line showing the boundary of BAPCO's concession area.1 Map Sheet.Foliation: A pencil number enclosed in a circle is located in the top right hand corner of the recto of the folio.Materials: Parchment sheetDimensions: 250mm x 1010mm
The map shows Mesopotamia and the Turco-Persian frontier with the main rivers and cities. A red line indicates the principal pilgrim route from Hamadan, Persia, to Nejef.1 mapMaterials: Printed on paper.Dimensions: 330 x 200mm.
The map shows the Shatt-ul-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] waterway with the frontier line between Turkey and Persia show in red ink.1 mapMaterials: Printed on paper.Dimensions: 330 x 200mm.
Distinctive Features:Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.Title continues: ‘Zu C. Ritter’s Erdkunde, Buch III, West-Asien, Theil XII. Bearbeitet von H. Kiepert, herausgegeben von C. Ritter. Berlin, 1852 Verlag von Dietrich Reimer’.Map of Hedjaz [Hejaz] province showing various routes including the Hajj pilgrimage, Carsten Niebuhr exploration journey, and J.G. Hulton and Charles J. Cruttenden expedition of 1836.In the bottom right-hand corner there is a table of reference listing Arabic geographic terms with German equivalents and abbreviations.Includes two insets:• plan of Mecca entitled ‘Mekka nach Burckhardt’ drawn to scale 1:30,000 with districts numbered and listed in a table of reference; • map of peninsula and the port of Aden entitled ‘Halbinsel und Hafen von Aden’ drawn to scale 1:200,000 with depths shown by contours.1 mapDimensions:491 x 349 mm, on sheet 584 x 476 mm