| Description | Bundle of printed maps of Turkey and the eastern Mediterranean, several published by the War Office, others evidently owned or possessed by Sir William Ramsay. Mostly without annotations.
1. Ordnance survey map of the Balkan states, scale 1:1,000,000, 1912; appr. 120x76 cm. Boundaries and seas coloured. On linen, torn
2. Sheet from overview map of Attica drawn up on the basis of the 1:100,000 scale map, with place names according to Arthur Milchhöfer; appr. 70x57 cm. Photographic copy; stamp on reverse: "Photographed 6 DEC 1916"
3. Map of Izmir/Smyrna; sheet from map of Asia scale 1:1,000,000, published by the War Office Geographical Sction 1916 on the basis of Kiepert's map of Asia Minor, with much additional detail. Provisional Edition. Appr. 66x64cm, coloured.
4. Sheet of Russian [or other Cyrillic] map of Anatolia; no title or rubrics except engraver's name and date "I. Michaelov 1904". Some pencil notes on north-east coast; note in ink on reverse "Please return to Captain E.H. Kerling[?], Junior Army & Navy Club Horseguards Avenue S.W. 1" Coloured, appr. 53 x 65 cm
5. "Hellenism in the Near East. An ethnological map compiled [...] by Professor George Soteriadis of the University of Athens" (Supplement to The Sphere, 1 March 1919). Coloured map, appr.56x72 cm.
6. Map of southern Anatolia, titled "Sheet IX", scale 1:253,440 (4 miles to 1 inch), no other rubrics. Tinted, appr. 85x68cm. Some pencil and ink annotations near the south-east coast near Shirish Tpesi
7. Map of central Anatolia. titled "Sheet XVI" (top) "Sheet II" (bottom), scale 1:253,440 (4 miles to 1 inch). Apparently from same set as (6) above, but not tinted. Pencil note on left margin: "'Came into' Ramsay's 'possession in 1885' WNC"
8. Map of Aleppo from the Ottoman Empire: 1:500,000 scale map published by the War Office; based on Kiepert's map of Asia Minor. With stamp of Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division. Approx 87x64 cm, coloured.
9. "Sketch Map to shew approximately Railways and Railway Projects and Navigation Concessions in Asiatic Turkey", War Office, June 1914, scale 1:4,000,000 appr. 86x57 cm. Black-and-white printed map. The description "sketch map" indicates only that some of the details are approximate; notes on the various railways etc. are given in the left margin.
10. Map of Athens and surrounding area, in French but printed by Wagner & Debes, Leipzig. Scale 1:50,000. Marked in blue pencil "Athens and District". Map approx 57x44 cm; undated, late 19th century. |