Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Coasts--Maps, Coasts--Africa--Maps--Early works to 1800, Coasts--Maps, Coasts--Asia--Maps--Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Description and travel, G160 .N49 1745
V.1. First voyages of the Portugueze to the East Indies, 1418-1546. First voyages of the English to Guinea, and the East Indies, 1552-1598. First... Show moreV.1. First voyages of the Portugueze to the East Indies, 1418-1546. First voyages of the English to Guinea, and the East Indies, 1552-1598. First voyages of the English to the East Indies, set forth by the company of merchants, 1600-1620. Voyages to Africa and the islands adjacent, 1455-1721 -- v.2. Voyages and travels along the western coast of Africa, 1637-1735. Voyages and travels to Guinea and Benin, 1666-1726. Description of Guinea -- v.3. Voyages and travels to Guinea, Benin, Kongo and Angola. Description of Loango, Kongo, Angola, Benguela, and adjacent countries. Description of the countries along the eastern coast of Africa, from Cape of Good Hope to Cape Guarda Fuy. Voyages and travels in China, 1655-1722 -- v.4. Description of China, of Korea, eastern Tartary and Tibet. Travels through Tartary, Tibet, and Bukhâria, to and from China, 1246-1698. Compilation attributed to John Green, but known as the Astley collection -- National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints. Vol. 1: xi, [13], 680 p., 24 leaves of plates (11 fold.) ; vol. 2: viii, [4], 732 p., 72 leaves of plates (17 fold.) ; vol. 3: iv, [4], 605 p., 61 leaves of plates (16 fold.) ; vol. 4: xii, [4], 751, [42] p., 74 leaves of plates (7 fold.). Each volume includes a frontispiece, table of contents, list of plates, and list of subscribers. Volumes 1 and 3 also contain errata. There are maps and charts throughout, including a set of 8 charts of the coasts of Africa, Arabia and western India at the end of vol. 1. The maps and charts are chiefly by Thomas Kitchin or G. Child. Illustrative plates are chiefly by G. Child or N. Parr. Main Heritage Shelves General G160 .N49 1745 Book vol.3 Item-ID: i20240995 BIB-ID: 1007787 Includes bibliographical references throughout, and an index at the end of vol. 4. From the historical library collection of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, transferred to King's on permanent loan in 2007. UkLU-K Show less
This chart is plate 28 from the "Oriental Neptune" by the French cartographer and French East Indian Company naval officer Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas... Show moreThis chart is plate 28 from the "Oriental Neptune" by the French cartographer and French East Indian Company naval officer Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780). The chart shows the Persian Gulf from Basra at the north to past the Strait of Hormuz to the present day Ras al Hadd in Gulf of Oman in the south. The inset map shows the present day islands of Khark and Kharko and the harbor of Bandar Rig. The map is a navigational chart well marked by rhumb lines for plotting courses and showing bathymetric soundings, prevailing currents, the locations of dangerous shoals, submerged rocks and other dangers to navigation, safe anchorages, and coastal views in great detail, mostly on the Persian side of the Gulf. Interior information is minimal and solely related to coastal views, large inland mountains that can be seen from near the coast, or river inlets. The southern part of the Gulf has very little detail; especially from the area of Qatif and Bahrain to the modern day United Arab Emirates (and locations are inaccurate, Dubai - Daba - is depicted as on the Omani coast). There is no hint of the peninsula of Qatar as is typical of maps of this period. Even the pearl banks of the southern part of the gulf which would shortly become famous are unmarked on this map. As the writing on the Arabian coast bordering the Gulf says, the entirety of this coast is infrequently visited and consequently little known. The Oriental Neptune was originally published in 1745 and was not majorly revised in the later editions published as late as 1775. 1745 was a couple of decades before the longitude problem had been solved and therefore only lines of latitude are drawn. The chart was engraved by the French engraver and geographer Guillaume Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802). le fond de cette carte a eté recueuilli et remis à l'Auteur par M. le Floch de la Carriere Capitaine des Vaisseaux de l'Inde ; Guill. De la Haye. From Après de Mannevillette's Oriental Neptune Small inset map: "Plan des Isles Karak et Korgo et de la Baye de Bundereek." Relief shown pictorially on the coasts and with soundings Nautical charts Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00450 Print Map Item-ID: i2419038x BIB-ID: 1822156 Show less
Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00458 Print Map Item-ID: i24194992 BIB-ID: 2562251 Show moreMain Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00458 Print Map Item-ID: i24194992 BIB-ID: 2562251 Show less
Bottom lefthand corner: "August 1st 1842. Additions to 1854." Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00369 Print Map Item-ID: i23824116 BIB-ID: 2535374 Show moreBottom lefthand corner: "August 1st 1842. Additions to 1854." Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00369 Print Map Item-ID: i23824116 BIB-ID: 2535374 Show less
1. Two hundred years of ancient Egypt: modern history and ancient archaeology / David Jeffreys -- 2. Imperialist appropriations of Egyptian... Show more1. Two hundred years of ancient Egypt: modern history and ancient archaeology / David Jeffreys -- 2. Imperialist appropriations of Egyptian Obelisks / Fekri A. Hassan -- 3. Art and antiquities for government's sake / Morris L. Bierbrier -- 4. "Purveyor-general to the hieroglyphics": Sir William Gell and the development of Egyptology / Jason Thompson -- 5. Some Egyptological sidelights on the Egyptian war of 1882 / David M. Dixon -- 6. Forgers, scholars, and international prestige: ancient Egypt and Spain / José-R. Pérez-Accino and Covadonga Sevilla Cueva (French translated by Daniel Antoine and Lawrence Stewart Owens) -- 7. 'Trans-Atlantic pyramidology', orientalism, and empire: ancient Egypt and the 19th century archaeological experience of Mesoamerica / Isabel Medina-González -- 8. Egypt and the diffusion of culture / Timothy Champion -- 9. Approaching the peasantry of Greco-Roman Egypt: from Rostovtzeff to rhetoric / Jane Rowlandson -- 10. The British and the Copts / Mary Horbury -- 11. Ancient Egypt and the archaeology of the disenfranchised / Sandra A. Scham -- 12. Forgetting the Ancien Régime: republican values and the study of the ancient Orient / David Wengrow. edited by David Jeffreys. Originally published in UCL Press in 2003. "Series of eight books derives from the proceedings of a conference entitled 'Encounters with Ancient Egypt', held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in December 2000"--Editor's foreword. Main Heritage Reading Room DT76.7 .V54 2011 Reference Item-ID: i25069317 BIB-ID: 2698215 Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-216) and index. Show less
Social sciences, Social sciences--Arabian Peninsula, History, DS223 .N49 2000
edited by G. Rex Smith ; J.R.Smart and B.R. Pridham. Main Heritage Compact General DS223 .N49 2000 Reference vol. 5 Item-ID: i25066535 BIB-ID: 2555431 Inc... Show moreedited by G. Rex Smith ; J.R.Smart and B.R. Pridham. Main Heritage Compact General DS223 .N49 2000 Reference vol. 5 Item-ID: i25066535 BIB-ID: 2555431 Includes bibliographical references. Show less
by J.W. Crowfoot and G.M. Fitzgerald. Main Heritage Compact General DS109.8.T9 .C76 1929 Book Annual no.5, 1927 Item-ID: i11411168 BIB-ID: 1010658 Include... Show moreby J.W. Crowfoot and G.M. Fitzgerald. Main Heritage Compact General DS109.8.T9 .C76 1929 Book Annual no.5, 1927 Item-ID: i11411168 BIB-ID: 1010658 Includes bibliographical references and index. Show less
J.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. خريطة ملونة هامة لغرب اسيا... Show moreJ.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. خريطة ملونة هامة لغرب اسيا، بداية من افغانستان وصولا لحدود البحر المتوسط والبحر الاحمر ومصر والاجزاء الشرقية من قارة افريقيا ويظهر فيها المحيط الهندي ،وتم ذكر مدينة الزبارة في الخريطة، ،نشرت عام 1858م،وبها العديد من التفاصيل وخطوط الطول والعرض. Relief shown pictorially and with shading. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. Probably issued in Colton's general atlas. Map surrounded by garland frame. Sea of Korea referred to as "Japan Sea." Qatar referred to as "Zabara." Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01063 Print Map Item-ID: i11403019 BIB-ID: 1728364 Show less
