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Watercolour on paper, 135 x 230 mm, matted, framed and glazed (frame 260 x 378 mm). A lovely nautical watercolour of three ships off "Linga", that is Bandar Lengeh on the Iranian shore of the Gulf, situated directly north of the United Arab Emirates on the Arabian shore. One ship is particularly European, likely British, its unidentified flag flying limp in the still air of the quiet Gulf. The city of Bandar Lengeh was at one point a major trading port which did much of its business with Oman. It was also attacked by British forces, which used a naval bombardment to shell the city in 1809, having alleged that it was a haven for pirates. The sloping seaside hills of Persia are shaded with deft brushstrokes, and the delicate rigging and masts of the ships are picked out with a careful hand. - T. H. H. Hand was the son of Captain Henry Hand RN and Anna McCheane. In 1888 he was recorded as a lieutenant; he subsequently joined the Royal Indian Marine and qualified as a master in the merchant services in Bombay in 1902. This lovely historic view of the Gulf was likely created in the early years of the 20th century, when Hand was involved in the Marine Survey of India and the Gulf coast. - Light foxing, a hint of toning around edges. In good condition, not examined out of frame. - With pencil ownership inscription of M[ilverton] Hall, Milverton (near Leamington Spa), on the reverse of frame.

Vol. I. Oman and Nakab El Hajar. [Vol. II. Sinai; Survey of the Gulf of Akabah; Coasts of Arabia and Nubia, &c.&c.&c.] First edition. 2 vols. 4 maps (2 folding) & 7 lithograph plates. LACKING THE FOLDING MAP OF OMAN. 8vo. Recent blue cloth, gilt. xvi, 446; x, 472pp. London, John Murray. The entire first volume relates to Wellsted's experiences in Oman, and is the fullest account by far of this territory then published, indeed he adds to the title of his Map of Oman the comment "A Country Hitherto Wholly Unknown to Europeans".   Following two surveying expeditions between 1830 and 1884 to the Red Sea and the coast of Arabia Wellsted obtained leave in November 1835 to travel to Oman. Arriving in Muscat his party were kindly received by the Imam, however having reached Sib in late January they were struck down with fever and unable to progress for a month.   It was during his second attempt to explore Oman that Wellsted was taken ill and whilst delirious shot himself. The injuries he received forced him to retire in 1839 his health shattered and his mind gone. He died at the early age of 42 some three years later in England.   Macro, 2282.

1st Edition. Very good. Modest soiling. Two sheets, unjoined, as issued. Size 53 x 56 Inches. A seminal 1854 large-scale Indian Navy Albany M. Grieve nautical map of Karachi Harbor, in the Sindh region of what is today Pakistan. This is the second and certainly the largest map of Karachi, and the first as an East India Company port. It was issued in the same year that marked Karachi Harbor's opening to EIC traders and the completion of the connecting Napier Mole causeway - illustrated here. A Closer Look Scope of coverage is roughly the same as the 1838 / 1844 Thomas Greer Carless map (Geographicus: Karachi-carless-1838), but this is where the similarities end. The Grieve chart is a far more monumental and comprehensive work, entailing extensive new hydrographic and terrestrial surveys over temperamental and inhospitable terrain. The city of Karachi itself, here identified as 'Old Town', is beginning to take form, with a rough street grid as well as important buildings identified. These include new constructions by the EIC, among them various administrative buildings and warehouses. We also note the completed Napier Gore, an important causeway that gave access to the newly constructed deep water port on Baba Channel, some 2.25 miles south of the city. The 'Fakeers Tank' that appeared on the Carless map - where early travelers to the region, including Leopold Von Orlich, writing in 1845, claimed that the fakirs kept some 30 alligators which were trained 'like so many dogs.' - is here correctly identified as Ram Talao, a long-gone holy site then disputed between Sikhs and Hindus. Karachi, An East India Company City The British East India Company had its eye on Karachi from at least 1838, when Thomas Greer Carless and this map's primary maker, Albany M. Grieve, performed a preliminary hydrographic survey of the harbor (see Geographicus: Karachi-carless-1838). Karachi, at that time, was a minor but diverse fishing and trading town of about 14,000. However, it had a strategic defensible location on the Arabian Sea with access to the Indus River Delta, Central Asia, and the Punjab hinterland. Although adventurers and the India Navy occasionally visited Karachi, it was not occupied by the British East India Company until February 1839, and did not fall fully under British suzerainty until after the 1843 Battle of Miani, in which the EIC effectively took control of Sindh. One year later, in 1844, as the EIC began to implement its grand plans for Karachi, the Carless survey was finally published - only one example of which survives (sold previously by Geographicus). In the decade between 1844, this map's 1854 publication, and Karachi's opening as a port in the same year, we recognize significant advancement, both in terms of the cartographic and hydrographic understanding of the coastal plain and infrastructure development. Significantly, this map appeared in the year Karachi opened as an East India Company Port and the Napier Mole was completed. The 'Mole' was a long causeway connecting the Old Town with the most inland point on what is today Baba Channel, capable of receiving deep draft trading vessels. There, they built docks, fortifications, and warehouses. In the Old Town, this map illustrates the beginnings of British colonial infrastructure, with established market areas, a hospital, schools, a customs house, and a goal. The survey reveals a highly defensible port. With a low water depth of only 1 or 2 feet close to the city, it was largely inaccessible to enemy ships and, if even marginally defended, overland invaders. As long as goods could be immediately transported the 2.25 miles between the docks and the Old Town warehouses, they were, for all intents and purposes, secure against piracy or invasion. Of course, the British had much grander plans that included the complete dredging of the mud flats surrounding Karachi, which, by the late 1860s, successfully converted the city into a modern port. Today Karachi is a major Indian Ocean port.