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Persia agreeable to modern history by H Moll Geographer published in London (MCA/01/01/06/07)  

Publication Date:  [1730]
Creator:  Moll, Herman, -1732
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  map 20x26 on sheet 24x38cm
Technique:  Black and white
Subjects:  Maps -- Early works to 1800
ایران -- آسیا
نقشه ها -- کارهای اولیه، تا 1800
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Dr. Cyrus Ala'i

Etats de Grand-Siegneur en Asie, Empire de Perse, Pays des Usbecs, Arabie et Egypte [Countries of the Ottoman Emperor in Asia, the Persian Empire and the country of the Uzbeks, Arabia and Egypt] by mapmaker Didier Robert de Vaugondy and published in Paris (MCA/01/01/04/10)  

Publication Date:  1753
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  map 48x55.5 on sheet 55.5x76cm
Technique:  Hand coloured
Subjects:  Maps -- Early works to 1800
ایران -- آسیا
نقشه ها -- کارهای اولیه، تا 1800
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Dr. Cyrus Ala'i

Map of Persia, Arabia, Turkey in Asia, Afghanistan, Beloochistan [Balochistan] published in Philadelphia by S Augustua Mitchell (MCA/01/01/07/05)  

Publication Date:  1877
Creator:  Mitchell, Samuel Augustis
Publisher:  S. Augustus Mitchell
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  map 27x34.5 on sheet 31.5x38.5cm
Technique:  Coloured
Subjects:  ایران -- آسیا
نقشه ها -- کارهای اولیه، تا 1800
Middle East -- Maps
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Dr. Cyrus Ala'i

An accurate map of Persia by George Rollos Geogr[apher], published in London (MCA/01/01/06/12)  

Publication Date:  [1770]/66
Creator:  Rollos, George
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  map 27x33.5 on sheet 30.5x41cm
Technique:  Hand coloured
Subjects:  Maps -- Early works to 1800
ایران -- آسیا
نقشه ها -- کارهای اولیه، تا 1800
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Dr. Cyrus Ala'i

Anderson, J. N. D. (Norman): Head of Law Department 1960s-1971  

Publication Date:  n.d.
Technique:  Black and white prints - one mounted
Subjects:  Anderson, J. N. D. (James Norman Dalrymple), 1908-1994
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Residence of the British legation at Teheran  

Publication Date:  1873
Publisher:  The Illustrated London News
Material:  Paper
Technique:  Engraving
Subjects:  آسیا -- ایران -- استان تهران -- تهران
Embassy buildings
سفارت
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London
Donor:  Dr. Cyrus Ala'i

Brunei Gallery at night  

Publication Date:  n.d.
Technique:  Colour print
Subjects:  Brunei Gallery
Source Institution:  SOAS University of London

Hadithi ya Qiyama (MS 380530a)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Format:  25 leaves
Technique:  Typescript
In black type, with marks in pencil and red ink
Subjects:  Islam
Swahili poetry
Religious belief
Utenzi
Death
Heaven
ابن المهيب، محمد ابو بكر
Kiswahili mashairi
Uislamu
Kifo
Imani za kidini
Mbinguni
Kuzimu
Muhammad, Mtume, -632
Prophet Mohammed
Faith
Hell -- Islam
Muḥammad, Prophet, -649
Source Institution:  Archives and Special Collections

Map of the Island of Kishm (Qeshm) to accompany the paper by Lieut Col Lewis Pelly published in London for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by John Murray (MCA/01/02/04/07)  

Publication Date:  [1864]
Publisher:  John Murray
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  map 11x18 on sheet 14x22cm
Technique:  Coloured
Subjects:  ایران -- آسیا
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Dr. Cyrus Ala'i

Persia, Arabia and Cabul [Kabul] drawn by J Smith, engraved by W R Gardner for Smith's Atlas, and published in London by Charles Smith (MCA/01/01/06/35)  

Publication Date:  [1826]
Creator:  Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833
Gardner, W. R.
Publisher:  Charles Smith
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  map 26.5x35.5 on sheet 31.5x43cm
Technique:  Hand coloured
Subjects:  ایران -- آسیا
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Dr. Cyrus Ala'i

Three Oriya palm leaves showing splitting and brittleness  

Publication Date:  1978
Creator:  Fox, Paul
Subjects:  Vrindaban Research Institute
वृन्दावन शोध संस्थान में
Source Institution:  SOAS, Univerity of London

Bride and bridegroom : from an album of Company paintings of occupations and festivals  

Material:  Watercolour on paper
Measurements:  H35 x W22 cm
Subjects:  Brides
एशिया -- भारत -- तमिलनाडु
ஆசியா -- இந்தியா -- தமிழ்நாடு
Grooms
மணமகன்
पुरूष
மணமகள்
दुल्हन
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Formerly owned by Rev. William Thompson (1811-1889). On permanent loan from the Council for World Mission Archive.

Notebooks of William Dawes (MS 41645 c & d) : short vocabularies of the language of Indigenous peoples of Van Diemen's Land, collected by the officers of the French frigates La Recherche and L'Espérance in 1793  

Publication Date:  1793
Creator:  [Anonymous]
Format:  1 volume
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  grammar
Austronesian and Oceanic languages
Cultural interaction
Indigenous populations
Languages
Lexicography
Linguistics
Military personnel
Vocabularies
Recherche (French frigate)
Espérance (French frigate)
Recherche (Frégate française)
Espérance (Frégate française)
L'Espérance, French frigate
La Recherche, French frigate
Source Institution:  SOAS, Univerity of London

Alexandri Magni Macedonia Expeditio by Johannes Janssonius and Georgius Hornius [Horn, Honorius] published in Amsterdam (MCA/01/02/01/14)  

Publication Date:  [1652][1646?]
Creator:  Janssonius, Johannes
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  map 36.5x46.5 on sheet 52x62cm
Technique:  Hand coloured
Subjects:  Maps -- Early works to 1800
ایران -- آسیا
نقشه ها -- کارهای اولیه، تا 1800
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
Donor:  Dr. Cyrus Ala'i

Notebooks of William Dawes (MS 41645a)  

Publication Date:  1790
Creator:  Dawes, William, 1762-1836
Dawes, William (1762-1836), lieutenant
Format:  2 volumes
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  Volume 1 is 10cm (W) x 16.5 (L) x 1.3cm (D)
Volume 2 is 12.8cm (W) x 18cm (L) x 1.2cm (D)
Subjects:  grammar
Dharug language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Dawes, William, 1762-1836
Aboriginal Australians -- Languages
Austronesian and Oceanic languages
Cultural interaction
Indigenous populations
Languages
Lexicography
Linguistics
Military personnel
Vocabularies
Source Institution:  SOAS, Univerity of London

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