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Maps of Thailand, Burma, Malay Peninsular, India, Pacific Ocean and related areas.

Maps collected by Storey. These are:

A set of maps of the Badakhshan- Wakhan region of Afghanistan compiled and edited by Exploration Pamir 75, the Austrian Scientific Research Programme, 1975, in the Wakhan-Pamir region of Afghanistan. The expedition was directed by R. Senerciens de Grancy and R. Kostka and sponsored by the Austrian Alpine Club, the Austrian Council for the Promotion of Scientific Research, the provincial governments of the Tyrol and Styria and numerous other sponsors. Printed in German and English. The editions in this collection are :

• Topographhische Karte - Topographic Map - Koh-e Pamir (Koh-i-Pamir) 1:50000
• Gletscherkarte - Glacier map - Darrah-e Issik-e Balal - Upper Issik Valley 1:25000
• Vegetation und Geologie - Vegetation and Geology - Darrah-e Issik-e Payan - Lower Issik Valley 1:25000
• Geologische Karte - Geological Map - Pamir-e Wakhan Dardistan 1:250000
• Die Ortschaft - Village of - Ptukh 1:5000

There is also one other map:

• Kart van Java door S.H. Serné. Lithographis van J. Smulders & Co. te's Hage, 1886. Map of the island of Java, scale 1: 1600000

Scale: 1:1,000,000 and 1:25000
Size: 50x80 cm
Area: Thailand and Bangkok

These are complimentary maps from a magazine - two sided and covered in plastic.

Printed travel maps of Caucasus with marbled paper covers, all marked ‘C. T. D.’ or ‘Clinton T. Dent’ on the covers. Three of the maps can also be associated with the travel writer John Frederick Baddeley. These are:

• Colour map showing the Dykh Tau mountain and its northern glaciers in central Caucasus, with routes marked in red. Scale: 0.5 inches to 1 English mile. This map was published for the proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, May 1890, and sold by Edward Stanford in London. Marked ‘Baddeley 1’ on the cover.
• Map showing the relief, rivers and towns around Abkhasia in the western Caucasus, with ‘author’s route’ marked in red. With a smaller map showing a route from Kutais to Gebi. Scale: 1.25 inches to 10 English miles. Marked ‘Baddeley 3’ on the cover.
• Map showing the topography in the district of Nalchik, no. XX—28. Scale: 1:42,000. Sold by Edward Stanford in London. In Russian. Labels on the cover marked ‘Caucasus. Stulee-veek District’ and ‘Dent 4’.
• Map showing the topography in the district of Vladikavkaz, no. XX—29. Scale: 1:42,000. Sold by Edward Stanford in London. In Russian. Labels on the cover marked ‘Caucasus. Central Group’, ‘Dykh-Tau & Koshtan Tau’ and ‘Baddeley 2’.

Collection of maps of India used by Barbara Ingham on her travels

A series of four maps of Thailand. They cover: Chiangmai (Jienghmai) Nagorn Sridharmaraj (Nakhon Si Thammarat) Bangkok Songkhla (Songala)

"A religious song - recorded by M. Dwarká Prasád, teacher of Chi village school, Dahaká (illegible totally) of Mainpuri": Mast hain puré sadhu faqír… With translation: The saints are really perfect madmen… Unsigned but in Rámgharíb Chaubé's hand. Handwritten, 3 sides, undated.

A typed manuscript of the Master’s thesis of Collins. Entitled "An Investigation into the Division of the Chams in Two Regions", it explores the Cham people in Indochina. The thesis was submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Asian Studies, in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966. The thesis is 77 pages and is preceded by the title, dedication and index pages.

Correspondence, insurance quotes, and indemnity certificates concerning the permanent loan of material to the British Museum. This material consists of:

• The commemorative inscription of the Ananta-Vasudeva temple at Bhuvanesvar, dated 1278 A.D.
• Three Ujjain copper-plate grants of the rulers of Malwa
• The Taxila Plate of Patika.
• Other stone inscriptions

These items were already at the British Museum before the first letter dated 6 June 1967 and have remained there. The correspondence includes some to confirm that the material is still with the British Museum. Much of the correspondence are photocopies of original letters. 67 items.

Printed genealogical material and maps relating to two princely states of British India, Kharan and Makran, now part of the Balochistan/Baluchistan province of Pakistan, including:

• Offprint of Appendix I of Kharan Gazetteer, Volume VIIA of the Baluchistan District Gazetteer Series, 1907, being the printed genealogical tree of the Nausherwanis of Kharan and Makran. Note at the bottom states that the tree is in disagreement with that given in Makran Gazetteer published in the same Gazetteer series, and that this tree was prepared from information supplied by the Chief of Kharan so is probably more correct
• Printed genealogical tree of the Kakar Tribe which is found in the Kharan region, tracing the lineage of the tribe from Qais Abdul Rashid. Prepared by Mir Shams Shah, K. B., Settlement Extra Assistant Commissioner in Baluchistan, and produced by Major A. H. McMahon, Revenue Commissioner in Baluchistan, December 1901. Probably an appendix of an edition of the Baluchistan District Gazetteer Series
• Coloured printed map of Makran on a 1 inch to 16 miles scale, showing its boundaries, major roads, tracks and rivers. No. 28[8]8, printed by Thomason College, Roorkee in February 1907. 47cm (h) x 48cm (w)
• Coloured printed map of Kharan on a 1 inch to 10 miles scale, showing its boundaries, routes, rivers and Kharan Chief’s military outposts. No. 3235, printed by Thomason College, Roorkee in August 1907. 46cm (h) x 46cm (w)