‘Arabia. By William Henry F. Plate’
IOR/X/3205
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The record is made up of 1 map sheet. It was created in 1847. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Map Collections.
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Imprint:
London, engraved by J.&C. Walker.
Distinctive Features:
Title continues: ‘L.L.D. Honourable Foreigner Secretary of the Syro-Egyptian Society of London. M. Geographical Society of Paris. Corresponding Member of the Oriental Society of Germany &c. Drawn for Colonel Chesney's work on his Euphrates expedition’
'From European and Oriental sources; among the latter Ibn Khordadbeh'.
Relief shown by hachures.
Notations concerning the regions and topography, pilgrim routes, tribes cover the face of the map.
Inscriptions:
On recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. in the left-hand corner: ‘To [illegible] by his humble servant Wm. Plate’.
- Extent and format
- 1 map sheet
- Area map covers
- Map loading...
- Scale
- not given
- Scale designator
- Horizontal
- Orientation
- North
- Degree coordinates
- Top-left: 35° 54' 36" N, 29° 1' 48" E
Top-right: 35° 54' 36" N, 59° 58' 48" E
Bottom-left: 12° 12' 36" N, 29° 1' 48" E
Bottom-right: 12° 12' 36" N, 59° 58' 48" E - Physical characteristics
Dimensions: 645 x 600 mm
- Written in
- English in Latin script
- Type
- Map
Archive information for this record
- Original held at
- British Library: Map Collections
- Access conditions
Unrestricted
- Archive reference
- IOR/X/3205
- Former external reference(s)
- R.I.19
- Date(s)
- 1847 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Arabian Peninsula
- People & organisations
- J & C Walker, engraversWilliam Henry F. Plate
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- IOR/X/3205
- Title
- ‘Arabia. By William Henry F. Plate’
- Pages
- 1r:1v
- Author
- Plate, William Henry F.
- Usage terms
- Public Domain