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Map of Thailand and Cambodia.

A series of three hand-drawn maps showing the routes taken by Fleming Mackenzie.

Catalogues and handlists for the maps in the Society's collections. The digital documents were created as archival documents in 2024.

• Card catalogue - handwritten descriptions of the maps on index cards.

Electronic Documents

• 'Maps list with dimensions highlighted' - first created in 2019 and modified in 2021. Excel document.
• 'Philip Jagessar map List' - first created in 2021. Philip Jagessar, as a postdoctoral researcher, researched and listed the Society's map collection. Excel document.
• 'Maps of Arabia in the Royal Asiatic Society collections' - first created in 2021, pdf document.

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

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

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.