‘Persia.’
IOR/L/PS/20/125
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The record is made up of 1 volume (20 folios). It was created in 1888. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Paper No.7 written by Colonel Augustus Le Messurier of the Bombay Engineers, being a diary of a journey through Persia [Iran] from Rasht to Bushire, undertaken between 24 October and 9 December 1887. The volume was published in Calcutta [Kolkota] in 1888, in Government of India Quarter Master General's Department.
At the front of the volume (f 4) is a list of illustrations and tables numbered 7A-7Z, and two further items numbered 25-26. Items 7A-7E are a map, section plans, route table and equipment list, which are included in the volume (ff 16-20). Items 7F-7Z refer to photographs taken by Antoin Sevruguin, included in a separate album published by Le Messurier (Photo 198). Items 25 and 26 are drawings, included at the end of the album of Sevruguin’s photographs.
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- 1 volume (20 folios)
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- 2 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/20/125, f 182 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/20/125, f 192 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/20/125, f 20
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 22; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- English in Latin script
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- Archival file
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- British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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- IOR/L/PS/20/125
- Former external reference(s)
- 2B9 262
- Date(s)
- 1888 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Persia
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- Government of India, Quarter Master General's DepartmentAntoine SevruguinAugustus Le Messurier
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- IOR/L/PS/20/125
- Title
- ‘Persia.’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:17v, 21r:21v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/20/125, f 18
- Title
- ‘Route through Persia on horse back’
- Pages
- 18r:18v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/20/125, f 19
- Title
- ‘Rough Section of Persia from Enselle on Caspian through Kasvin Teheran, Shiraz to Bushire on Persian Gulf’
- Pages
- 19r:19v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/20/125, f 20
- Title
- Plan showing three sections of the route taken by Colonel Augustus Le Messurier in 1887
- Pages
- 20r:20v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence