L'Arabie contemporaine avec la description du pèlerinage de la Mecque et une nouvelled carte géographique de Kiepert.Author: Adolphe d'Avril, Agent and Consul General for France in Romania.Publication details: Paris, 1868.1 volume (313 pages)The 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.This is found at the back of the volume, beginning after page 313.Dimensions: 224mm x 142mm.
Voyage en Arabie & en d’autres Pays circonvoisins, volume one, authored by Carsten Niebuhr, with contributions from Peter Forsskål. Translated from German into French by Ferdinand Louis Mourier.Publication details: Printed in Amsterdam by S J Baalde, and in Utrecht by J van Schoonhoven and Company, 1776.Physical description: one of two volumes, Quarto, with numerous folded maps and plans.1 volume (409 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is also a list of illustrations and plans, giving titles and page references.Dimensions: 285mm x 240mm.
Voyage en Arabie & en d’autres Pays circonvoisins, volume two, authored by Carsten Niebuhr, with contributions from Peter Forsskål. Translated from German into French by Ferdinand Louis Mourier.Publication details: Printed in Amsterdam by S J Baalde, and in Utrecht by Barthelemy Wild, 1780.Physical description: the second of two volumes, Quarto, with numerous folded maps and plans.1 volume (389 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is also a list of illustrations and plans, giving titles and page references.Dimensions: 285mm x 240mm.
The Portugues Asia: or, The history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues; containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan; all their battels by sea and land, sieges and other memorable actions; a description of those countries, and many particulars of the religion, government and customs of the natives, &c. In three tomes. Written in Spanish by Manuel de Faria y Sousa, of the Order of Christ. Translated into English by Cap. John Stevens. Tome the First.Publication Details: London, Printed for C. Brome, at the Sign the Gun, at the West-End of St. Pauls, 1694.Physical Description: Octavo.1 volume (448 pages)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: 185mm x 105mm
The Portugues Asia: or, The history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues; containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan; all their battels by sea and land, sieges and other memorable actions; a description of those countries, and many particulars of the religion, government and customs of the natives, &c. In three tomes. Written in Spanish by Manuel de Faria y Sousa, of the Order of Christ. Translated into English by Cap. John Stevens. Tome the Third.Publication Details: London, Printed for C. Brome, at the Sign the Gun, at the West-End of St. Pauls, 1694.Physical Description: Octavo.1 volume (440 pages)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: 185mm x 105mm
The Portugues Asia: or, The history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues; containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan; all their battels by sea and land, sieges and other memorable actions; a description of those countries, and many particulars of the religion, government and customs of the natives, &c. In three tomes. Written in Spanish by Manuel de Faria y Sousa, of the Order of Christ. Translated into English by Cap. John Stevens. Tome the Second.Publication Details: London, Printed for C. Brome, at the Sign the Gun, at the West-End of St. Pauls, 1694.Physical Description: Octavo.1 volume (526 pages)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: 185mm x 105mm
Central Asia. Part V. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the History, Ethnography, Topography, and resources of part of Asiatic Turkey and Caucasia.The book is written by Charles Metcalfe MacGregor.Publication Details: Calcutta: Foreign Department Press. 1872.1 volume (342 pages)The contents in the volume are arranged in chronological order.Dimensions: 250 mm x 155 mm.Pagination: 1-342.
The lands of the Eastern Caliphate Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem conquest to the time of TimurPublication Details: Cambridge : University Press, 1905.Notes: Cambridge Geographical Series.Physical Description: xvii, 536 p., 10 maps (folded).1 volume (536 pages)Dimensions: 195mm x 135mm
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 this present king of Persia, Solyman the III.Publication details: London: printed for Christopher Bateman, 1691.Holding notes: Imperfect, only 16 plates present.1 volume (505 pages)The volume contains two sections, an account the travels and an account of the Coronation. There is an index to the account of the travels, which begins after page 417; and a table, similar to an index, for the account of the coronation which begins after page 154.Dimensions: 304mm x 197mm.Condition: [14], 417, [7[, [2], 154, [6]p, 25 leaves of plates, iii, map, portrait; 31cm. 2°.Pagination: p265 to p330 have been omitted; the pages between p398 and p403 have been numbered as follows: p402, p400, p401, p399.
Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.Publication Details: London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1816 Printed by A. Strahan, New-Street-Square.Notes: Printer's name from colophon.Physical Description: xxx, 423, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (col.), 1 map ; 28 cm. (4º)1 volume (423 pages)Dimensions: 280mm x 215mm
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
The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled
Routes in Persia. Section II. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Captain J. Vans Agnew, 3rd Madras Lancers(Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1895).The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-50) leading from Turkey-in-Asia into Western Persia between Erzerum [Erzurum] in the north and Basra in the south. 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 pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for index maps of the routes, but only one of these (folio 58), 'Index Map to Routes in Persia. Section II.' (compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department), dated October 1895, is present.An ink stamp on the front cover records the confidential nature of the publication and that it was being transmitted for the information of His Excellency the Viceroy (Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 16th Earl of Kincardine) only.1 volume (57 folios)The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 5-7); and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 8-10).Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside 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 (except for the front cover where the folio is on the verso). This is the sequence used to determine the order of pages.Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.Condition: folio 7 is detached from the volume.
The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled
Routes in Persia. Section III. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India(Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1898).The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-247) in Persia starting from Russian territory and extending south as far as a line drawn from Karmanshah [Kermānshāh] south-eastwards through Burujird [Borūjerd], Isfahan [Eşfahān] and Yazd to Karman [Kermān], and thence north-east to Khabis [Khabīş] and Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn].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, agriculture, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).An appendix within the volume (folios 356-359) and two separately-stored sets of loose sheets (containing routes numbers 77 (a) and 140-A, folios 363-369) give information too late for incorporation in the body of the work.The volume also contains pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for maps. These consist of an index map showing the limits of each of the three sections of
Routes in Persia(folio 2) and an index map to the routes in Section III (folio 361). There is also a fold-out map of the route from Seistan [Sīstān] to Mashad on folio 232.An ink stamp on the front cover records the confidential nature of the publication and that it was being transmitted for the information of His Excellency the Viceroy (Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 16th Earl of Kincardine) only.1 volume (367 folios)The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 6-17), and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 18-25).Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates on the last page of the loose supplementary sheets (found in the small grey folder within the main folder); 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 a printed pagination sequence.
The publication, Routes in Persia, Section I was compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter-Master Gerneral's Department in India and was published by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, Calcutta: 1898.Section I contains all the routes which commence from the Persian Gulf littoral and extending to a line drawn from Burajird [Borūjerd], through Isfahan [Eşfahān], Yazd, Karman [Kermān], Khabis [Khabīş], Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn]; the routes have been arranged within the volume by starting from the sea base of the Persian Gulf and working up towards the line described.For each route described the previous authorities, such as publications and accounts of journeys, are given, along with the following details:Names of stages: towns and villages which act as stopping points along the route;The distance in miles from the previous stage of the route;The total distance in miles for that route up to that stage;Remarks: including geographical information; details on smaller settlements; sacred places; condition of roads; access to water; other roads and routes.The volume also includes two appendices which contain details of other routes for which the information was received too late to be included in the main body of the volume.An ink stamp on the front cover records the confidential nature of the publication and that it was being transmitted for the information of His Excellency the Viceroy (Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 16th Earl of Kincardine) only.The inside front and back covers have pockets containing index maps of the routes described in the volume.1 volume (206 folios)Folios 6-10 consist of an alphabetical index to names of places featured in the volume, excluding those places which appear in appendix II. Folios 11-17 are an alphabetical cross-index of the routes featured in the volume, again excluding those routes which appear in appendix II.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. The volume aso contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Intelligence report on Kuwait, compiled for the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General’s Department by Captain Henry Harris Hewitt Dowding of the Essex Regiment, and printed at the Government Central Printing Office in Simla, 1903.The contents of the volume are as follows:Introductory remarks;Harbour, anchorages;History of Kuwait (of the Wahabis, the Ibn Rashid family, the war between Nejd and Kuwait);Political (relations between Kuwait and Great Britain, the situation in 1901-02, foreign relations with Russia, Germany, Turkey, events during 1902);Military forces, including their strength, arms and equipment, organisation, standard of efficiency and tactics;Towns: Kuwait, its population and defences; Jehara [Al-Jahrah], its importance, population and defences;Administration, government, free trade, currency;Resources, commercial, not agricultural;Climate;CommunicationsFour appendices follow the main text: A. routes; B. the Wahabi family; C. the Ibn Rashid family; D. the Shaikhs of Kuwait. The volume also contains three illustrations: the foreshore at Kuwait (folio 3); Mobarek-bin-Subah [Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] and his youngest son Naser (folio 9); the Shaikh’s residence in Kuwait (folio 17). The volume also contains three maps: a map of Kuwait and the surrounding country (folio 30); a map of Kuwait harbour (folio 31); and a rough diagram of Jehara (folio 32).1 volume (33 folios), with 3 mapsThe volume is arranged into a number of sections, with major headings in the text and subheadings indicated alongside the text in the outer margins. A contents page (folio 6) lists these major headings and subheadings, along with the volume’s illustrations and maps, and refers to the volume’s original pagination system. Four appendices follow the main text. An alphabetical index (folios 26-28) also refers to the volume’s original pagination system.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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 booklet contains an original typed pagination sequence.
The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. [Atlas volume]Publication Details: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 Printed by W. Clowes and sons, Stamford Street.Note: Only two volumes of text and an atlas containing the maps were published.Note: The atlas contains 12 river maps, numbered as plates I to XII, of the Euphrates, Tigris, Kárún and Shatt El 'Aráb rivers. Scale: 1/4 inch to the mile. Published by Col. Chesney, 1849. Engraved by J & C Walker.Copy Note: The atlas is lacking the 'Map of Arabia and Syria' and the 'Table shewing the changes which took place in the river Euphrates between 26th July 1835 and 13th June 1836'.Copy Note: The atlas has been rebound and has a spine title only: 'Euphrates Expedition. - Maps.- Chesney.'Physical Description: 1 atlas (12 fol. leaves of plates : maps).1 volume (24 pages)Dimensions: 500mm x 345mm.
The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.Publication Details: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 Printed by W. Clowes and sons, Stamford Street.Notes: Printer's name from colophon. Only two volumes of text and an atlas containing the maps were published.Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Physical Description: xxvii, [3], 799, [1] p., [29] leaves of plates (1 folded), (the plates are numbered: 1, 3-9, 11-26, 28, 33, 37, 39, 42-43). Vol. 1, p. 705-706 and p. 707-708 are fold-out leaves.1 volume (799 pages)Dimensions: 320mm x 240mm
This volume is a confidential handbook on Mesopotamia prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, dated February 1919. There is a table of contents which includes the following chapters:I: 'Geography Physical and Political', including 'Position and Frontiers', 'Surface, Coast and River Systems', 'Climate', 'Sanitary Conditions', 'Race and Language' and 'Population';II: 'Political History', including 'Chronological Summary', 'Introduction', 'Early period of Turkish Occupation, 1638-1834', 'Later period of Turkish Occupation, 1834-1914', and 'Commercial Developments';III: 'Social and Political Conditions', including 'Religious', 'Political', 'Public Education' and 'General Observations';IV: 'Economic Conditions', including 'Means of Communication', 'Industry', 'Commerce', 'Finance' and 'General Remarks'.There is also an appendix which includes tables of 'Exports to Principal Countries from Baghdad', 'Imports from Principal Countries to Baghdad', 'Principal Exports from Basra' and 'Principal Imports to Basra'. This is followed by a section entitled 'Authorities' which is a bibliography of references used for the preparation of the volume. This section is divided into 'Historical' (including 'Confidential Sources'), 'Economic' ('Official' and 'General') and 'Maps'. There is a pocket at the back of the volume to house maps, but there are no maps present.1 volume (76 folios)Pagination: The volume contains an original printed pagination sequence.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.
History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.Author: Hamid ibn Muhammad ibn RuzayqPublication details: London: Printed for the Hakluyt SocietyPhysical Description: initial roman numeral pagination (i-cxxviii); with map.1 volume (435 pages)The volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is an index to the principal names at the back of the volume.Dimensions: 210mm x 130mm
History of the Indian Navy. (1613-1863).Author: Charles Rathbone Low.Publication Details: London: Richard Bentley and Son, New Burlington Street.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-vi); octavo.1 volume (575 pages)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: 229mm x 140mm
History of the Indian Navy. (1613-1863).Author: Charles Rathbone Low.Publication Details: London: Richard Bentley and Son, New Burlington Street.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xx); octavo.1 volume (532 pages)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: 229mm x 140mm
A History of Persia from the beginning of the ninteenth century to the year 1859 with a review of the principal events that led to the establishment of the Kajar Dynastyby Robert Grant Wilson.Publication Details: London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xii); 8º.1 volume (465 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Rach chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of the chapter.Dimensions: 216mm x 132mm
The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.The book, in two volumes, is written by John Malcolm and contains illustrations.Publication Details: London : printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street, and Longman and Co., Paternoster-Row, by James Moyes, Greville Street, MDCCCXV [1815]Ownership: With stamps of the East India Company Library and India Office Library.1 volume (715 pages)There is a table of contents at the beginning (v-vii) and an index at the end of the volume (639-715).Conditioning: the book is made of two volumes, this is the second.Dimensions: 320 mm x 265 mm.Pagination: vii, [1], 715, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates.
The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.The book is written by John Malcolm and contains illustrations. There is a large map at the beginning 'Map of Persia and adjacent countries for Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia'.Publication Details: London : printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street, and Longman and Co., Paternoster-Row, by James Moyes, Greville Street, MDCCCXV [1815]Ownership: With stamps of the East India Company Library and India Office Library.1 volume (644 pages)There is a preface and a table of contents at the beginning (vii-xxii).Conditioning: the book is made of two volumes, this is the first one.Dimensions: 320 mm x 265 mm.Pagination: xxii, [2], 644 p., [12] leaves of plates (1 folded).
A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.Author: John Fryer, M D.Publication Details: London: R R [Richard Roberts] for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Churchyard.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xiii) and another Roman numeral pagination at the end of the volume (i-xxiv); with maps and figures; folio.1 volume (427 pages)The volume contains a table of contents giving letter numbers and chapter headings. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There are also an alphabetical index ('An Index Explanatory'), and an alphabetical 'Table of some Principal Things herein contained, neither reducible to the Index Explanatory, nor the Contents' of at the back of the volume.Dimensions: 310mm x 190mm
A New Account of the East-Indies: Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton Who resided in those Parts from the Year 1688, to 1723, Trading and Travelling, by Sea and Land, to most of the countries and Islands of Commerce and Navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japan. The Second Edition. Volume I.By Alexander Hamilton.Publication Details: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, London, 1739.Physical Description: Octavo.1 volume (396 pages)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: 200mm x 125mm
A New Account of the East-Indies: Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton Who resided in those Parts from the Year 1688, to 1723, Trading and Travelling, by Sea and Land, to most of the countries and Islands of Commerce and Navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japan. The Second Edition. Volume II.By Alexander Hamilton.Publication Details: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, London, 1739.Physical Description: Octavo.1 volume (309 pages)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: 200mm x 125mm
Military Report on South-West Persia, Including the Provinces of Khuzistan (Arabistan), Luristan, and Part of Farsby Major and Bt. Lieut-Col. Mark S. Bell, V.C., R.E.Publication Details: Simla: Government Central Branch Press, 1885. Prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India.Physical Description: 3 maps in end pockets. 41 plates.1 volume (390 pages)This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references.Dimensions: 245mm x 150mm
Report of a journey through Persia, written and illustrated by Lieutenant Henry Bathurst Vaughan of the Seventh (D.C.O.) Bengal Infantry for the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General’s Department in India, and printed by the Superintendent of Government Printing in Calcutta [Kolkata] in 1890. The contents of the report trace the route taken by Vaughan during the period December 1887 to September 1888, as follows:Part I, Section 1. Linga [Bandar-e Lengeh] to Bastak; 2. Bastak to Yezd [Yazd]; Section 3. Yezd to Samnan [Semnān], Anarak, Anarak to Samnan, and a general report;Part II, Section 1: Samnan to Nagenou, Turut, the rivers Kal Mura and Kal Lada, Nagenou, and the branch route to Doruna; 2. Nagenou to Bajistan [Bajestān], Bajistan; 3. Bajistan to Jumain, Jumain; 4. Jumain to Karat, and a general report from Samnan to Nagenou and the remaining route; 4. Miandasht [Mīān Dasht] to Bandar Ghez [Bandar-e-Gaz] via Astarabad [Gorgān]. A diary across the Caspian Sea is appended to the report.The appendices are as follows: I. Niris to Beshna; II. Samnan to the Kuh-I-Gugird Range; III. To accompany the sketch of the Dasht-I-Kavir; IV. Notes on the road from Hashtadan to Meshed [Mashad]; V. Route from Meshed to Miandasht; VI. Notes on transport; VII. Means of obtaining water.The report also includes twenty-six large illustrations, many of which are topographical views of the landscapes and villages encountered by Vaughan. There are numerous other small illustrations included within the text. Most of these are diagrams with measurements, showing the cross-sections of streams and ponds encountered by Vaughan.1 volume (92 folios)The report in arranged into two parts (I and II), with each part divided into numbered sections (numbered 1 to 3 and 1 to 5 respectively), and seven appendicies (I to VII). A contents page (folio 4) lists the parts, sections and appendices, and references the volume’s original pagination system. Within the text, topics and locations associated with the journey are marked in the outer margin.Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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 contains an original typed pagination sequence.
An historical and descriptive account of Persia, from the earliest ages to the present time; with a detailed view of its resources, government, population, natural history, and the character of its inhabitants, particularly of the wandering tribes; including a description of Afghanistan and Beloochistan.Author: James Baillie Fraser.Publication details: Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale Court; and Simpkin & Marshall, London.Edition: second edition.Physical Description: 14 engravings, including 1 map.1 volume (472 pages)This volume contains a list of contents giving chapter headings and page references. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There is also a list of engravings.Dimensions: 170mm x 100mm
Southern Arabia, by Theodore Bent, F.R.G.S., F.S.A., Author of 'The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland' 'The Sacred City of the Ethiopians' 'The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks' etc. and Mrs Theodore Bent.Publication details: Reading: Garnet, c 1994.Edition: new edition.Notes: facsimile edition of edition published London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1900.Physical Description: initial roman numeral paginations i-xi, i-x; 24 leaves of plates, 5 folded leaves of maps; illustrations, 6 maps 1 portrait.1 volume (455 pages)The volume contains a list of contents giving section and chapter headings and page references, a list of illustrations and a list of maps. There is an alphabetical index at the back of the volume.Dimensions: 240mm x 165mm
A Tour to Sheeraz by the Route of Kazroon amd Feerozabad with various Remarks on the Manners, Customs, Laws, Language and Literature of the Persians to which is added A History of Persia from the Death of Kureem Khan to the Subversion of the Zund Dynastyby Edward Scott Waring.Publication Details: London, printed for T Cadell and W Davies, in the Strand, by W Bulmer and Company, Cleveland Row.Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xiii).1 volume (329 pages)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. There is also a list of appendices.Dimensions: 315mm x 250mm
An Autumn tour in western Persia, authored by Lady Ella Rebe Durand.Publication details: Published by Archibald Constable and Co Limited, of 2 Whitehall Gardens, Westminster.Physical description: Octavo, includes fold-out map.1 volume (266 pages)The volume is arranged into eighteen chapters, but does not include a contents or index page. A list of illustrations featured in the volume is included (page 9).Dimensions: 220mm x 150mm.
'The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., late envoy to Persia, and governor of Bombay; from unpublished letters and journals. In two volumes. Vol. I.'Publication Details: London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65 Cornhill ; Bombay : Smith, Taylor, and Co., MDCCCLVI [1856] C. Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand.Notes: Printer's name from colophon. Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references.Physical Description: xii, 538 p., [1] leaf of plates, 1 port. ; 23 cm. (8º)1 volume (538 pages)Dimensions: 230mm x 140mm