Hunter Frederic Fraser (1 results)

Large detailed terrain map of the Persian Gulf and the surrounding area with a legend of geographic denominations in English, Arabic and Persian, such as "Fort: Qasr (Arabic), Kaleh, Kalat (Persian)". The map shows terrain levels in particular detail and the major roads, railways and telegraph lines. The sheet latitude limits are: "24° - 32° north and 44° - 60° south", including Qatar, Kuwait, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and more.The map was published in 1912 by the India Survey Office under the direction of Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard (1860-1953), who was Colonel and Surveyor General of India in that year. He was closely involved in the geographical and cartographic survey of India, especially the Himalayas, and retired one year after publication of the present map.As the Southern Persia sheet, the present map is part of a very large 9-sheet combined map covering the area from the Red Sea to India, called the Survey of India Southern Asia Series (1912-1945). The present map and a separately published index could be obtained only on application through an officer at the Map Record and Issue Office in Calcutta.Some slight foxing. A tiny tear on the crossing of two folds, bottom edge frayed. Otherwise in good condition.l Daniel Foliard, "Conflicted cartographies of a peninsula", in: Geographies of contact, 2019, pp. 71-76; F. Fraser Hunter, "Reminiscences of the map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf", in: The geographical journal, 54 (1919), pp. 355-363. Folded. Large photozincographed (heliozincographed) folding map on a scale of 1:2,000,000 in black, blue and red, with relief shown by contours, hachures and gradient tints.