Abstract: Map numbered 1.C (Diza-Gawar [Diza Hawār]), and subtitled ‘Mosul & Kirkuk Divisions. Azarbāījān [Azerbaijan] Province. Van Vilayet.’ An index to the geographical location of the provinces is provided below the map. A caption under the map states that it was published under the direction of Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, Surveyor General of India, 1923. A stamp in the bottom right corner of the map states that it was published by the Geographical Section General Staff, War Office.The map indicates: relief, shown by contours and shading, with elevations given in feet; rivers, lakes, marshes; province and country boundaries; settlements, with place names in English; railways, roads and other transport routes. An additional boundary line, drawn in red ink, has been added to the map.The map is mentioned in a copy of a letter sent by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (John Allsebrook Simon), dated 1 July 1932, which states that the ‘Turkish military attaché has been so good as to draw upon sheets 1 A, 1 B, and 1 C [...] the line of the new frontier’ (f 48).Physical description: Materials:1 paper folio.Dimensions:462 x 478 mm, on sheet 574 x 434 mm.
Abstract: Map numbered 1.B (Khoī [Khoy]), and subtitled ‘Azarbāījān [Azerbaijan] Province & Van Vilayet.’ An index to the geographical location of the provinces is provided below the map. A caption under the map states that it was published under the direction of Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, Surveyor General of India, 1922. A stamp in the bottom right corner of the map states that it was published by the Geographical Section General Staff, War Office.The map indicates: relief, shown by contours and shading, with elevations given in feet; rivers, lakes, marshes; province and country boundaries; settlements, with place names in English; railways, roads and other transport routes. An additional boundary line, drawn in red ink, has been added to the map.The map is mentioned in a copy of a letter sent by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (John Allsebrook Simon), dated 1 July 1932, which states that the ‘Turkish military attaché has been so good as to draw upon sheets 1 A, 1 B, and 1 C [...] the line of the new frontier’ (f 48).Physical description: Materials:1 paper folio.Dimensions:464 x 374 mm, on sheet 630 x 444 mm.
Abstract: Map numbered 1.A (Mount Ararat), and subtitled ‘Azarbāījān [Azerbaijan] Province. Erivan [Yerevan]. Erzerum [Erzurum] & Van Vilayets.’ An index to the geographical location of the provinces is provided below the map. A caption under the map states that it was published under the direction of Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, Surveyor General of India, 1922. A stamp in the bottom right corner of the map states that it was published by the Geographical Section General Staff, War Office.The map indicates: relief, shown by contours and shading, with elevations given in feet; rivers, lakes, marshes; province and country boundaries; settlements, with place names in English; railways, roads and other transport routes; the Indo-European Telegraph Line. A new boundary line, drawn in red ink with annotations, has been added to the map.The map is mentioned in a copy of a letter sent by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (John Allsebrook Simon), dated 1 July 1932, which states that the ‘Turkish military attaché has been so good as to draw upon sheets 1 A, 1 B, and 1 C [...] the line of the new frontier’ (f 48).Physical description: Materials:1 paper folio.Dimensions:462 x 367 mm, on sheet 615 x 444 mm.
Abstract: This volume is
A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume IV, Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan(Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April, 1917), covering Mesopotamia north of the line joining Rowanduz, Mosul, Meskeneh [Maskanah], and Aleppo, up to Van, Bitlis, Diarbekr, and Mar‘ash. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, and appears to be based on official and unofficial publications and maps which are cited in a bibliographical section in the volume.The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', and 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of contents which includes the following sections:Introduction;Itineraries;River Routes (The Tigris, The Euphrates);Land Routes (Central Kurdistan, Routes between Mosul and Diarbekr, Routes between the Plain of Diarbekr and the Moutains to North and West, Routes between the line Diarbekr-Mardīn and the Euphrates, Interior of Norther Jezīreh, West of the Jaghjagha Su, The Euphrates Valley and Country West thereof, Across the Taurus between the Euphrates and Mar‘ash, and Aleppo-Mar‘ash);Railways (Aleppo-Ras el-‘Ain-Tel Ermen);Gazetteer of Towns;Bibliographical Note;Transliteration of Names;Glossary;Index;Plates;'Sketch Map of Routes'.The volume contains 15 plates, which illustrate the content of the various chapters, and 1 map entitled 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio (except for the front cover, where the folio number is located on the verso).Pagination: The volume also has an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item comprises printed Foreign Office correspondence relating to Persia [Iran], covering geopolitical, political, economic, social and cultural matters. The despatches are dated 7 July 1897-22 September 1898.The first page of each despatch includes the heading ‘ASIA. CONFIDENTIAL.’ on the top left, and the day and month of the despatch in square brackets on the top right e.g. ‘[July 7.]’. The letters in each despatch are numbered, e.g. No. 1, followed, where relevant, by numbered enclosures (spelled ‘inclosure’ in the volume), e.g. ‘Inclosure in No. 1.’ or ‘Inclosure 1 in No. 2.’. A few of the letters from Charles Hardinge, First Secretary, Tehran, to Persian Government ministers are in French.The item notably covers and includes:The financial difficulties of the Persian Government including: negotiations for foreign loans to the Persian Government, notably a proposed loan of forty million francs by Messrs Solomon Oppenheim of Paris and Cologne on the security of the customs revenues of the southern ports of Persia, and proposed Russian loans (including a copy of a draft agreement, in French, presented to the Persian Government by the Russian Legation, ff 375-376); and loans negotiated with the Imperial Bank of Persia, notably a loan of fifty-thousand pounds secured by control of the customs revenue of Bushire [Bushehr] and KermanshahAffairs relating to the Persian Mint and its relations with the Imperial Bank of PersiaThe murder of Mr Graves, a commissioned officer of the Indo-European Telegraph Department, at Karwan in southern Persia, the indemnity demanded from the Persian Government by the British Government, measures taken for the arrest and punishment of the murderers, and arrangements for the future protection of the telegraph line and company employeesFactionalism, internecine strife, and changes in personnel within the Persian Government and Cabinet, including the dismissal of the Sadr-i-Azam [Ṣadr A‘ẓam, Prime Minister] in June 1898The assassination of Sheikh Mizal [Shaikh Miz’al Khān], Governor of Muhammerah [Khorramshahr, formerly Mohammerah], and recognition of Sheikh Khazal [Shaikh Khas’al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka’bī, also spelled Khasal in this item] as the new GovernorAn attack on Koweit [Kuwait] by the Persian Sheikh Yussuf Ibrahim [Shaikh Yūsuf Ibrāhīm]The state of affairs in Azerbaijan and TabrizThe state of affairs in Persian Beluchistan [Balochistan]Rumours of a raid by members of the Shahsavend [Shahsavan] tribe into Russian territory allegedly killing twenty-five CossacksConstruction of the (Gulf of) Enzeli-Kazvin Road [Bandar-e Anzali-Qazvin], involving a concession by the Persian Government to the Russian Insurance and Transport CompanyRusso-Persian relations notably following the Russian doctors and Cossack escort forced upon the Persian Government against their willMilitary news and reportsThe persecution of Jews in Ispahan [Isfahan] and in Lar, including British official protests and concern to protect British Jews at those placesDisturbances at Charbar [Chabahar] and Jask and the deputation of (British) Indian troops to those placesThe construction of a road from Ahwaz [Ahvaz] to Ispahan and from Shuster [Shushtar] to Ispahan, and agreement of Messrs Lynch Brothers with Ali Guli Khan [Alī -Qulī Khān Sirdār Asad Bakhtiyārī] and others (ff 310-311), guaranteed by the Persian GovernmentA report by HM Consul in Ispahan on his journey to Kermanshah and Tehran, in connection with the question of the disputed properties of the British Agent at Kermanshah (ff 325-327)A report by Captain G S Elliot, HM Vice-Consul at Van, of a journey across the Persian frontier and reporting generally on state of affairs on both sides of the [Persian and Turkish] border (ff 362-368), notably covering the activities of Armenians in Van, and the Russian Mission to Nestorian Christians in Urumiah [Urmia or Orumiyeh]An insurrection in Yemen and the deployment of five to six thousand Ottoman troops to repress itA report of a journey across a part of Persian Baluchistan [Balochistan] by Captain Percy Molesworth Sykes (ff 400-401).The primary correspondents are: the Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary; Charles Hardinge, First Secretary, Tehran; Sir Philip Currie, Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran; the Imperial Bank of Persia; the India Office; and the Foreign Office. Enclosures are chiefly: correspondence of British diplomatic officials in the Middle East, notably William Loch, Consul-General at Bagdad [Baghdad]; reports and monthly summaries from Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot, Military Attaché at Tehran; and occasional letters from Persian Government ministers.Physical description: 1 volume (215 folios)