‘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

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Access & Reference

Original held at
British Library: Map Collections
Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference
IOR/X/3205
Former external reference(s)
R.I.19

History of this record

Date(s)
1847 (CE, Gregorian)

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‘Arabia. By William Henry F. Plate’, British Library: Map Collections, IOR/X/3205, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100000006850.0x000001> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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