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More imagesBritish Admiralty Chart No. 8c Red Sea - Sheet 3 / Lith / Jelajil / Kunfida / Khor Delwen / Khor Shinab / Mersa Ar-Rakiyai
Hydrographic Office; H. Sharbau; G.S. Nares; Commodore A. Carpenter; Lieuetenant E.H. Dobbin; Captain R. Hoskyn
Language: English
Published by British Admiralty, London 1923
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Seller: Dendera, London, United KingdomDendera
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Good. Beautifully drawn b/w chart, printed on heavy paper 86x68cm. Good or better, folded with some ms pencil route annotation and dusting. First published on 31 March 1873, the latest edition stated is 24 April 1922 with small corrections dated 1923. This covers the African side from Abu Dara to the Delta… of the Baraka River including the important trade and Hajj ports of Suakin and Port Sudan, and the Arabian side from Mersa Dheneb to Ras Abu Kalb including Jidda (Jeddah), Lith, and Kunfida. In addition to numerous settlements and geographical features along the coasts, there are 3 insets for Arabian ports including Lith, Jelajil, and Kunfida (surveyed by Commodore JD Nares and the Officers of HM Surveying Ship Enterprise 1918), and 3 African including Khor Delwen, Khor Shinab (Sketch Survey by Lt CH Cochran, HMS Grappler 1885). There are also 4 attractively drawn coastal views.
More imagesBritish Admiralty Chart No. 8b Red Sea - Sheet 2 / Foul Bay Scout Anchorage / The Brothers Islands / Koseir Anchorage / Sherm Wej / Sherm Hassey / Daedelus Reef / Yenbo
Hydrographic Office; H. Sharbau; G.S. Nares; Commodore A. Carpenter; Lieuetenant E.H. Dobbin; Captain R. Hoskyn
Published by British Admiralty, London 1922
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Seller: Dendera, London, United KingdomDendera
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Good. Beautifully drawn b/w chart with some hand colouring, printed on heavy paper 85x70cm. Good or better, folded with some ms pencil annotation and dusting. First published on 31 March 1873, the latest edition stated is 24 April 1922 with small corrections dated in the same year. This covers the African…side from the Arab Encampment north of Jebel Kuweh to Abu Dara including Koseir (Qoseir), and the Arabian side from Ras Morabit to Merea Dheneb including Wej (Wejh) and Yenbo ("Port of Medina / Cattle and water cheap & good"). In addition to numerous settlements and geographical features along the coasts, there are 7 inset maps and plans for Foul Bay Scout Anchorage (credited to Lt. E.H. Dobbin, HMS Scout, 1902), The Brothers Islands, Koseir Anchorage (credited to Captain G.S. Nares RN, 1872), Sherm Wej, Sherm Hassey, Daedelus Reef (credited to Commodore A. Carpenter, HMS Myrmidon, 1884), and Yenbo. The plan of Wej, 1/7270, shows the detailed layout of the town with its street pattern, including the gateway, fort (ruined), minarets, tombs, towers, old boiler, boulders, ruins, and pier under construction. The plan of Yenbo, 1/29,740, dated from latest information to 1916 around the time of the Arab Revolt, shows the town demarcated by its wall with bastions, minarets, high house, old battery, and its environs including a conspicuous tomb, and a caution dated 1921 that the beacons are not to be relied upon. The main map also features 2 attractively drawn coastal views (one of which is almost the full length of the left hand border), and 2 inset drawings of the lighthouses at The Brothers and Daedelus Reef. The pencil annotations are of courses drawn from these two locations.
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Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, U.S.A.Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
Contact seller4-star sellerVery good. Exhibits light foxing and wear along original fold lines. Size 18.5 x 17.25 Inches. This is an 1886 Henry Sharbau map of modern-day Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Malawai tracing Walter Montagu Kerr's (1852 - 1888) exploration of the region. A thin red line follows Kerr's peregrinations, with towns and native villages labe…led along the route. Major settlements including Gubuluwayo, Tette, Mpemba, Blantyre, and Quillimane near the mouths of the Zambezi River. The Zambezi is prominently illustrated, along with numerous smaller rivers. Marshes, mountain ranges, and other physical features are also noted, although very little detail is present in areas distant from Kerr's path. Red lettering marks tsetse fly territory - a serious danger to early explorers. An inset map in the lower right follows Kerr's route from Cape Town to Gubuluwayo. A profile of the 'section of route from Port Elizabeth to Lake Nyassa and Quillimane' is included below the bottom border. Walter Montagu Kerr (1852 - April 27, 1888) Walter Montagu Kerr was a British explorer and world traveler. Born in Perth in 1852, Kerr attended Charterhouse School and became an engineer. He worked on the old Tay Bridge for Sir Thomas Bouch for 'some time' before leaving for California in 1873. In California he found work as the Chief Engineer at the Spring Valley Waterworks. In 1874, Kerr moved briefly to New York, before being contracted to survey mines in Mexico. After getting the mines in 'complete working order' and having made several journeys between San Francisco and Mexico for machinery, his health began to fail. This forced a visit England, but not long after he returned to New York, where he began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, where he incidentally became a popular personality. Kerr's health again declined and forced him to sell his business. This turn of events forced (or possibly allowed?) him to turn his attention to exploring Africa. He spent from autumn 1883 through sometime in 1885 traveling from Cape Town to Lake Nyassa (Lake Malawi). His health degraded once again upon his return to England from Africa, but not long after he chose to go to southern Mexico to investigate a parcel of land for a possible colonization. After returning from Mexico, Kerr wanted to mount a solo expedition to Khartoum via Cairo, but he could not get permission to enter Egypt. He decided to change his plans and entered Africa via Zanzibar, leaving England in November 1887. Unfortunately, Kerr was struck down by fever only a few days into the African interior and had to be carried out on a litter. He survived this ordeal and arrived in Cairo on a Messageries Maritimes ship in February. Cairo's climate did not help him improve, so he went to Marseilles and then Hyères, where he died on April 27th. Publication History and Census This map was drawn by Henry Sharbau and published by Edward Stanford in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society for the Royal Geographical Society in 1886. We note an example cataloged in OCLC which is part of the collection at the British Library. We also note a cataloged example as being part of the collection at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. References: OCLC 556556337.
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Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, U.S.A.Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
Contact seller4-star sellerGood. Exhibits wear and foxing along original fold lines. Closed tear extending one-half (.5) inch in lower central portion of map in white section below 'Loi Pa Kau'. Size 22.5 x 24 Inches. This is an 1886 Henry Sharbau and H. A. Milne map of Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand. The map focuses on northern Thailand (Siam) and the rail…road proposed by civil engineer Holt S. Hallett (1841 - 1911) and his associate Archibald Colquhoun (pronounced kuhl-HOON.) It was created to accompany a paper Hallett presented to the Royal Geographical Society. Red lines trace Hallett's explorations, scouting and surveying the best railroad route. A dashed black and white line illustrated the proposed railway, running south from Kiang Hsen to the map's lower border. An inset along the right illustrates the route's continuation to Bangkok. The Colquhoun-Hallett Scheme The opening of Siam in 1855 led to a flood of enterprising westerners angling for concessions. By the 1880s foreign demand for investment in Siam (primarily resource extraction) reached its height. In 1885 the British annexed Northern Burma, which accelerated interest in Siam in hopes of creating a trade route between China and British Burma. In the early 1880s Colquhoun and Hallett began pressuring the Siamese to help finance survey and construction of just such a railroad. The pair continued their efforts through 1890 and canvassed Britain for investment. They spoke to Chambers of Commerce in London, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester (among others). In all likelihood, the paper presented to the Royal Geographical Society that included this map was part of the capital campaign. Their railway never came to fruition. An insurgency in the Shan States (northern Thailand) demanded the Siamese government's attention, as well as that of the British colonial government in Mandalay in northern Burma. The Shan States (1885 - 1948) Occupying a large portion of this map, the Shan States were a collection of kingdoms in British Burma and northern Siam. These states had been independent kingdoms for hundreds of years. Each kingdom had its own agreement to pay tribute to a certain country for protection, either Burma or China. When the British invaded in 1885, this upset the delicate balance and led to years of fighting and insurgency. To this day, the Shan States are in open rebellion against the Myanmar central government. Publication History and Census This map was created by Henry Sharbau and H.A. Milne to accompany a paper by Holt Samuel Hallett published in the 1886 edition of the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society . Three examples are cataloged in OCLC and are part of the institutional collections at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Southern Illinois University. References: OCLC 1139537603.
