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Journey To The North Of India: Overland From England, Through Russia, Persia, And Affghaunistaun, (Vol. 2), Arthur Conolly

Books in English

Travel description of author's overland journey from England through Russia, Persia and Afghanistan

Journey To The North Of India: Overland From England, Through Russia, Persia, And Affghaunistaun (Vol. 1), Arthur Conolly

Books in English

The author describes his overland travel from England through Russia, Persia and Afghanistan.

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, James Baillie Fraser

Books in English

The book includes a chapter on Afghanistan in which the author writes about he history of the country from the dethronement of Shah Shuja to the adventures of Fateh Khan. For the account of Afghanistan he used the work of Mr. Elphinstone, as well as, the facts communicated to him while in Khorasan.

Persia Arabia Tartary & Afghanistan, T. G. Bradford, J. H. Young

Documents and Reports

Publication: [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?] : [John Grigg?], [1828?]

Physical Description:1 map : hand colored ; 25 x 21 cm, on sheet 29 x 24 cm

Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale approximately 1:20,000,000, (E 32°19ʹ00ʺ--E 73°02ʹ00ʺ/N 51°56ʹ00ʺ--N 9°47ʹ00ʺ).

Notes: Shows Persia and covers from Suez east to the Gulf of Cambay and India and from Siberia south to the Gulf of Aden. Includes modern day nations of Saudia Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan along with parts of Pakistan and Kazakhstan. Noted are Ruins of Persepolis and the Ruins of Babylon. Also included are some towns, rivers, mountains, islands and various …

Persia, John Speed, Pieter Van Den Keere

Documents and Reports

Publication: [London] : [printed for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleet-street, and Ric. Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard], [1676]

Physical Description: 1 map ; 9 x 12 cm on sheet 10 x 16 cm

More Author / Title Information: P. Kærius cælavit.

Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale shown as ratio to "German Com Myll" (i.e. German common mile), a measure which varied across different times and regions. The conversion to modern miles is undetermined. Approximately 1.7 cm represents 100 German common miles.

Notes: Engraved by Pieter Van Den Keere.

Leaf may have been separated from …

Asia, Jodocus Hondius, Pieter Van Den Keere

Documents and Reports

[Amsterdam?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1630 and 1636?]

Physical Description: 1 map : color ; 26 x 19 cm

Notes: Hand-colored.

Relief shown pictorially.

Text in Latin.

Identified by cataloger as possibly being the miniature version of the map of Asia by Jodocus Hondius, engraved by Pieter Van Den Keere, as it appeared in Johannes Cloppenburg's edition of Gerhard Mercator's Atlas Minor, engraved in a slightly larger format than the standard Dutch pocket atlases of the time. This version of the map was first published in 1630 and appearing in editions until 1636, then not appearing in print again …

Tabvla Asiae Vii, Giovanni Antonion Magini, Ptolemy

Documents and Reports

Publication: [Agrippinensium Colonia?] : [Excudebat Petrus Keschedt?], [1597?]

Physical Description: 1 map ; 14 x 18 cm, on sheet 17 x 23 cm

Language: Latin

Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale not given, (E 49°35ʹ--E 82°05ʹ/N 43°33ʹ--N 26°01ʹ).

Notes: Ptolemaic map covering central Asia, including the Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.

Relief shown pictorially.

Uncolored.

Copper-plate map.

Verso is page 22 of an unidentified text in Latin, with heading: Asiae Tabvla VI.

Taken from an early edition of Giovanni Antonio Magini's Ptolemy's Geographia, tentatively identified as: Ptolemy. Geographiae vniuersae tum veteris, tum nouae abolutissimum opus, duobus voluminibus districtum. …