J.V. Schley. Also covers surrounding coastal areas. Shows forts and city structures. Relief shown by hachures and landforms. Includes illustrations... Show moreJ.V. Schley. Also covers surrounding coastal areas. Shows forts and city structures. Relief shown by hachures and landforms. Includes illustrations and decorative border. Depiction of Hormuz island in the Arabian Gulf. Parts of Kishm island and Persian coast on the other side are shown. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00885 Print Map Item-ID: i11402258 BIB-ID: 1172568 In French and Dutch. 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
Map of Arabian Peninsula without title seems to be copied from previous maps of Ptolemy.The tropic of Cancer is drawn as thick line crossing almost... Show moreMap of Arabian Peninsula without title seems to be copied from previous maps of Ptolemy.The tropic of Cancer is drawn as thick line crossing almost at the centre of the peninsula. Bastard ghotic lettering used. Map of the Arabian Peninsula. Relief shown pictorially. Includes names of places and natural features. In margin: Climatic and latitudinal notes. Appears in the author's Geographia, edited by Bernard Sylvanus. Venetiis : Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho, anno Domini 1511. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01186 Print Map Item-ID: i11404413 BIB-ID: 1172784 Text in Latin. Show less
by R.V. Tooley. Main Heritage Reading Room Z6027.A2 T65 1969 Reference Item-ID: i23204989 BIB-ID: 2495131 Includes bibliographical references. Show moreby R.V. Tooley. Main Heritage Reading Room Z6027.A2 T65 1969 Reference Item-ID: i23204989 BIB-ID: 2495131 Includes bibliographical references. Show less