This beautifully rendered map of Herat dates from 1880, the final year of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878--80). The map depicts Herat's impressive defenses and its roughly square plan. The …

Kandahar in 1879;

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1880 English

Kandahar in 1879 is the diary of Brigade Major Augustus Le Messurier (1837-1916), a British Indian railroad engineer who first joined the Bombay Engineers in 1856 and rose to become …

[Interior view of temple in cave on Elephanta Island, India]

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1880 English

1 photographic print.

Map of the Pishin Valley and the upper basin of the Lora : constructed from the surveys & reconnaissances executed …

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1880 English

Relief shown by shading. Stamped in lower left corner: 608A. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Stanford's map of the empires of China and Japan with the adjacent parts of the Russian Empire, India, Burma &c.

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1880 English

Back cover of publishers' list on verso. Front cover missing. "Stanford's Geog. Estab, London." Annotated in pencil in pink. "409410 * '31." LC copy sectioned to 36 sheets, and mounted …

Qāfʹnāmah : Qāfnāmah-ʼi s̲ānī. Munājāt. Chirāghʹnāmah. Ashʻār-i ghayr-i manqūṭ

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1880 Persian

Lithographed. In Persian.

Our scientific frontier.

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1880 English

The "scientific frontier" is a term used by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) of Great Britain in 1878 to denote a border between British India (in present-day Pakistan) and …

The industrial arts of India.

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1880 English

"Part II, on The master handicrafts of India, is a reprint, with added text, of a portion of my Handbook to the Indian Court at the Paris International Exhibition of …

Road scene, Ceylon

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1880 English

1 photographic print : albumen, mounted on card. | Photograph shows people on a roadway through lush vegetation, interrupting their travels for the photographer, also, a cart drawn by two …

On the mall, Simla

LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1880 English

1 photographic print. | Houses on ridge, with road leading to church at top of hill.