Obock, Mascate, Bouchire, Bassorah, written by Denis de Rivoyre, illustrated by Saint-Elme Gauthier.Publication details: Published by E Plon & Company, printers and editors, 10 Rue Garancière, Paris, 1883.Physical description: 292 pp; [14] leaves of plates (2 folded); illustrations and fold-out map.1 volume (290 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. This is found at the back of the volume, beginning after page 290.Dimensions: 180mm x 120mm.
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.Publication Details: London, Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C.Notes: In : Keltie (Sir, J.S.) The Story of Exploration, etc. 1903, etc. 8º.Physical Description: xv, 359 p.1 volume (359 pages)Dimensions: 225mm x 150mm
This volume is a confidential report, printed at the War Office, by Harrison and Sons, printers in ordinary to Her Majesty, in 1899, and authored by Major George Washington Brazier-Creagh, Intelligence Division, War Office, concerning the resources, administration and general affairs in Baluchistan and Seistan [Sīstān] following his political mission in 1897. The report contains an introduction by the author, (folio 4), dated 5 December 1898, in which he mentions that details from the report are being incorporated into the Baluchistan Gazetteer and Route books. He also pays tribute to Colonel Bell and Captain Henry Dundas Napier who preceded him, as well as Captain Arthur Henry McMahon and George Passman Tate. The text of the report is accompanied by footnotes and section headings appear in the left and right hand margins.The report includes a table of contents on folio 5 with the following five chapters:'Chapter I. General Account of Journey across the Baluchistan Desert' (folios6-8), including details of incidents en route, future trade prospects, danger threatening commerical prospects, and a list of leading merchants in Seistan;Chapter II. Russian Designs and Political Consideration' (folios 8v-10), includsing details of future policy, approaches to Seistan, alternative routes, influential Sardars of Seistan, treatment of refugees by the British Government, and the feeling of the people;'Chapter III. Resources and Population of Seistan' (folios 11-24), including details of administration, fertile places, a list of villages, climate, seasons and winds, sanitation, population, transport (camels, donkeys and horses), windmills, agriculture, industries and trade, Camel Corps, sport and shooting, locusts, and fish;'Chapter IV. Exploration of the District in the West and South' (folio 25), including details of crossing the Dasht-i-Shelag, pollution of wells, character of country, routes, and pilgrimage;'Chapter V. Land System - Revenue and Productions &c' (folios 26-29), including details of ijaras [
ijārah], tenant rights and responsibilities, hardship of tenants, collection of revenue, culturable area, annual yield, surplus grain, irregularity and delayed water supply, and ancient ruins.There is a list of nine appendices (folio 5v) as follows:'A.- Geneaological tables of Sarbandi, Kayani, and Naroi tribes' (folios 30-31);'B.- List of Taoki tribes in Seistan' (folio 31v);'C.- Average temperature of each camp', April to November 1897 (folios 32-35);'D.- Aneroid readings', April to November 1897 (folios 36-39);'E.- List of wells and springs', with serial numbers corresponding to 'Map No. II' (folio 39v);'F.- List of villages', with serial numbers corresponding to 'Map No. II' (folios 40-41);'G.- Table of meteorological observations, Baluchistan' (folios 41v-43);'H.- Table of meteorological observations, Seistan' (folios 44-50);'I.- Table of meteorological observations, Neh and Birjand Districts' (folios 50v-51).The file also includes five maps and sketches, store in a pocket (folio 58). They are listed on folio 5v as follows:'No. 1. Baluchistan and Seistan' (folio 53);'No. 2. Seistan' (folio 54);'No. 3. Route plan of Robat Nala' (folio 55);'No. 4. Waterways of the Helmund [Helmand] Delta' (folio 56);’No. 5. Nasratabad [Naṣratābād] Fort' (folio 57).1 volume (58 folios)This volumes contains a page of contents (folio 5) referencing page numbers.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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.
The Empires and Cities of Asia.Publication Details: London : Virtue, [1873?].The book, written by Alexander Gruar Forbes, contains illustrations and a folded map of 'Asia'.Ownership: With stamp of the India Office Library.1 volume (349 pages)There is a preface and a table of content at the beginning of the volume, detailing the arrangement of contents and page references, and a list of illustrations (pages v-xi).Dimensions: 190 mm x 120 mm.Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (v-xi); (1-349).Condition: there is a folded map.
England and Russia in the East. A Series of Papers on the Political and Geographical Condition of Central Asiaby Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson.Publication Details: London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1875.Physical Description: Octavo. Contains one map.1 volume (393 folios)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter.Dimensions: 215mm x 140mm
The Strategic importance of the Euphrates Valley Railway, by F M L [Feldmarschallleutnant] Baron Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld, Austrian War Minister, translated by Captain Charles William Wilson. Published by Edward Stanford of 6 & 7 Charing Cross, London, 1873. Authorised translation; second edition. A note at the end of the volume states that the speech was written by von Kuhnenfeld in 1858, and the first edition published in 1869.1 volume (22 pages)The volume is bound into a larger volume entitled ‘Political Tracts’ (dimensions: 215mm x 135mm), with four other small volumes.
Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.Author: Colonel Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, CB, KCSI. Late Chief Commissioner Indo-European Telegraph; British Commissioner for settlement of the Perso-Baluch Frontier (1870-71) and Arbitrator in the Perso-Afghan boundary question (1872-73).Publication details: London. Macmillan and Co., 1874. R Clay, Sons and Taylor, printers, Bread Streat Hill.Physical Description: xiv, [2], 673, [3]p., [8] leaves of plates (2 folded): ii, maps, portrait; 23cm (8º).Ownership: With stamps of the India Office Library and embossed stamp of the "Secretary of State for India Library". Marginal ms. annotations in a contemporary hand in ink on pages 101, 194, 196, 264 and 527.1 volume (673 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references, along with a list of illustrations giving titles and page references. There is also an index which begins on page 661.Dimensions: 232mm x 156mm
The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century, translated from the author’s own manuscript, and collated with one preserved at the Library of Eton College by Sir William Ouseley.Publication details: Printed at the Oriental Press by Wilson & Co., Wild-Court, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, for T Cadell Junior and W Davies, Strand, London, 1800.Physical description: One volume, initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xxxvi), 327 pages, fold-out map.1 volume (327 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is an alphabetic index at the back of the volume.Dimensions: 280mm x 220mm.
A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign."...With map, portraits, and illustrations from the author's drawings, by Lady Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, Baroness Wentworth. With contributions from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.Publication details: Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London.Physical description: Volume 2 of a two-volume work; includes map and illustrations; Octavo.1 volume (283 pages)The volume contains a table of contents with chapter headings with page references (pp vii-ix). Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references (p xi).Dimensions: 210mm x 135mm.
A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the cradle of the Arab race. A visit to the court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign."...With map, portraits, and illustrations from the author's drawings, by Lady Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, Baroness Wentworth. With contributions from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.Publication details: Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London.Physical description: Volume 1 of a two-volume work; includes map and illustrations; Octavo.1 volume (273 pages)The volume contains a table of contents with chapter headings with page references (pp xxix-xxxi). Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references (p xxxiii).Dimensions: 210mm x 135mm.
The Persian Gulf and South Sea Isles, by Sir Edgar Collins Boehm (afterwards Boteler), Bart..Publication details: Published by Horace Cox, London, 1904.Physical description: Octavo.1 volume (180 pages)The volume contains a table of contents with chapter headings with page references (pp xi-xii). Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There is a list of illustrations giving titles and facing page references (p xiii). There is also an alphabetical index with page references at the back of the volume (pp 175-180).Dimensions: 220mm x 140mm.
The Arabian Horse, his country and his people, with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations, also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names.Author: Major-General William Tweedie, Formerly HBM's Consul-General, Baghdad, and Political Resident for the Government of India in Turkish Arabia.Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1894.Physical description: xix, 411p,., 4 octavo.1 volume (411 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references. There is an alphabetic index at the back of the volume.Dimensions: 322mm x 250mm