Distinctive Features:Relief shown by hachures.Roads indicated by pecked lines. Shows Qatar and Bahrain.The Southern border of Qatar is indicated by a thick pecked line.Copy of the map enclosed to a letter on the question of the Southern limit of the Qatar Oil Concession sent by L. Lefroy at the Britannic House, London, to J.G. Laithwhite at the India Office, London, on 18 January 1935 (IOR/R/15/416, folio 4).Inscriptions:Toponyms are in English; Qatar and Dohah are also translated to Arabic.1 map sheetMaterials: printed on paperDimensions: 402 x 250 mm; on sheet 415 x 299 mm.Foliation: The map has been foliated in the top right hand corner with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.
Distinctive Features:Relief shown by hachures.Roads indicated by pecked lines. Shows Qatar and Bahrain.The Southern border of Qatar is indicated by a thick pecked line.Enclosed is a letter on the question of the Southern limit of the Qatar Oil Concession sent by L. Lefroy at the Britannic House, London, to J.G. Laithwhite at the India Office, London, on 18 January 1935 (IOR/R/15/416, folio 4).Inscriptions: Toponyms are in English; Qatar and Dohah [sic] are also translated to Arabic.1 map sheetMaterials: printed on paperDimensions: 402 x 250 mm; on sheet 415 x 299 mm.Foliation: The map has been foliated in the top right hand corner with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.
Distinctive features:Title deed plan dated 8th Safar, 1363, corresponding with 3rd February 1944.Shows plot of land situated at Umm al Hasam, Manamah which was exchanged for the land situated in Ghosaibia, Manamah in order to provide space for the Royal Navy base at Jufair.Labelled and coloured for reference with measurements reported.1 planMaterials:Pen and ink with wash on tracing clothDimensions:190 x 200 mm, on sheet 266 x 225 mm
Distinctive features:Title deed plan dated 6th Safar, 1363, corresponding with 1st February 1944.Shows plot of land situated at Ghosaibia, Manamah which was exchanged for the land situated in Umm al Hasam, Manamah in order to provide space for the Royal Navy base at Jufair.Labelled and coloured for reference with measurements reported.1 planMaterials:Pen and ink with wash on tracing clothDimensions:140 x 160 mm, on sheet 276 x 225 mm
This sketch map is a south-north depiction of Gwadur [Gwadar] and the surrounding area, with place names and landmarks written in Arabic. Scale not given.1 mapMaterials: Manuscript; ink and pencil on paper.Dimensions: 303 x 665mm.
The map shows the locations of pearl banks along the east coast of the Persian Gulf between Kuwait and Ras Tanura. The map is a rough, hand-drawn sketch. The pearl banks are numbered from 1-58 which correspond to a numbered list (in Arabic) which appears on the sheet. Also given are the names of coastal features, towns, and islands. Accompanying the map (folios 12-13) is a second numbered list of pearl banks in the Gulf, most of which match that of the map. The map and lists were compiled by Major Stuart George Knox, Political Agent, Kuwait, 'with the assistance of nakhoda [nakhuda] Saleh of the Koweit [Kuwait] pearlers'.1 mapMaterials: Manuscript; ink on paperDimensions: 560 x 332mm
Distinctive Features:Depths shown by soundings.Hand drawn nautical chart of the shores of the Persian Gulf compiled from the survey carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers in 1822 showing Amulgawein [Umm al-Quwain] with the location of fresh water wells marked.Place names given both in English and Arabic.Includes note on water levels and soundings with latitude and longitude of the town reported.Michael Houghton’s initials inserted in the bottom right hand-corner above the neat line.Oriented with south to the top.1 mapMaterials:Pen and ink on paperDimensions:633 x 810 mm, on sheet 660 x 835 mm
Distinctive Features:Depths shown by soundings.Hand drawn nautical chart of the shores of the Persian Gulf compiled from the survey carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers in 1822 showing Debai [Dubai]. The town gates and ‘Sheeks house’ labelled with the location of date plantation and fresh water wells marked.Place names given both in English and Arabic.Includes notes on water levels and soundings with latitude and longitude of the ‘Western Tower’ reported.Oriented with west to the top.1 mapMaterials:Pen and ink with wash on paperDimensions:452 x 475 mm, on sheet 498 x 555 mm
Distinctive Features:Depths shown by soundings.Hand drawn nautical chart of the shores of the Persian Gulf compiled from the survey carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers in 1822 showing Sharja [Sharjah, United Arab Emirates] with the location of fresh water wells marked.Place names given both in English and Arabic.Includes note on water levels and soundings with latitude and longitude of a ‘square tower’ reported.1 mapMaterials:Pen and ink on paperDimensions:455 x 570 mm, on sheet 497 x 618 mm
Distinctive Features:Depths shown by soundings.Hand drawn nautical chart of the shores of the Persian Gulf compiled from the survey carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers in 1822 showing Aymaun [‘Ajmān] with the location of fresh water wells marked.Place name given both in English and Arabic.Includes note with remarks on latitude and longitude variations and water levels observation details.1 mapMaterials:Pen and ink on paperDimensions:401 x 490 mm, on sheet 475 x 569 mm
Imprint:‘Batliboi Litho Works, Bombay 8’.Distinctive Features:Pearl banks indicated by Arabic numerals, the names of topographic features including settlements, islands and pearl beds inserted in Arabic.In the lower right-hand corner of the sheet a descriptive note from the author, this starts and ends with prayers. It includes explanation to the surveying methods and reasons for creating the map, as well as the author’s approval and stamp with his name (Shaykh Mani’ ibn al-Shaykh Rashid al-Maktum), the date: 24 Jumada II 1359 AH, and a note ‘all right reserved’.Labels:Stamp in purple ink which states in Arabic that the map is not to be translated to any other language without author’s permission.1 mapDimensions:495 x 880 mm, on sheet 558 x 925 mm
Distinctive Features:Undated. Date of production derived from the accompanying document.A photographic copy of Arabic plan relating to the deed of purchase for the land designated for the Jufayr Naval Base, with the seal of Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, and signed by Charles Dalrymple Belgrave and M Khalil. Location and extent of the land boundaries stated in a Register [al-tasjīl]: No. 388, 1353; Tapu [al-ṭabū]: No. 13/566, 1352 (folios 90-91). Another copy of this plan hold at IOR/R/15/2/216, f. 91B.1 mapMaterials:Photographic printDimensions:332 x 285 mm, on sheet 352 x 302 mm
Distinctive Features:Undated. Date of production derived from the accompanying document.A photographic copy of Arabic plan relating to the deed of purchase for the land designated for the Jufayr Naval Base, with the seal of Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, and signed by Charles Dalrymple Belgrave and M Khalil. Location and extent of the land boundaries stated in a Register [al-tasjīl]: No. 388, 1353; Tapu [al-ṭabū]: No. 13/566, 1352 (folios 90-91). Another copy of this plan hold at IOR/R/15/2/216, f. 91C.1 mapMaterials:Photographic printDimensions:332 x 285 mm, on sheet 350 x 302 mm
Distinctive Features:Undated. Date of production derived from the accompanying document.A photographic copy of Arabic plan relating to the deed of purchase for the land designated for the Jufayr Naval Base, with the seal of Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, and signed by Charles Dalrymple Belgrave and M Khalil. Location and extent of the land boundaries stated in a Register: No. 407, 1353; Tapu: No. 511, 1352 (folio 91).1 mapMaterials:Photographic printDimensions:328 x 231 mm, on sheet 348 x 247 mm
Distinctive Features:General chart of the Persian Gulf published in 1832 by James Horsburgh and engraved by Richard Bateman. The western sheet only, lacking the title and publisher’s details.Relief in hachures. Depth shown by soundings.Nautical chart of the Persian Gulf compiled from the surveys carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers between 1820 and 1829, with place names inserted in both English and Arabic.Gives detailed information on the coastline and waters of the Persian Gulf, including documenting pearl banks, rock banks, shoals and shallows. A memorandum is included in the bottom right corner of the map giving the surveys which it is based upon:'The coast from Ras Moosenden [Musandam] to Abothubbee [Abu Dhabi] was Surveyed by Lieuts J M Guy, G B Brucks and R Cogan in 1821 and 1822; from Abothubbee to Cape, or Ras Reccan, by Lieuts J M Guy and G B Brucks in 1823 and 1824; from the latter point to Core Abdullah by Lieuts Guy, Brucks and W E Rogers, in 1824 and 1825,- from Ras Tuloop to Bushire, in 1825-26, and the remainder of Coast, Islands etc by Lieuts G B Brucks and S B Haines from 1826 to 1829.'The map has been annotated with a red line to show the direction which Lewis Pelly travelled on leaving Koyt [Kuwait] for Riyadh and the direction he returned from to Bahrein [Bahrain] as well as the route that the H.M.S. "Berenice" BM took from Koyt to Bahrein to meet Lewis Pelly on his return. The top right hand corner of the map sheet contains a pencil annotation giving the longitude and latitude coordinates for Riyath [Riyadh]. Lewis Pelly departed from Kuwait in February 1865 and reached Bahrain in March 1865 and the annotations were made to the map sometime afterwards.1 mapDimensions:728 x 522 mm; on sheet 770 x 610 mmCondition:There are some small tears in the centre of the map where it has been folded and a stain mark along the bottom half of the left hand border of the map.Foliation:The map has been foliated in the top right hand corner of the folio with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.