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:Also see [[Gazetteers#Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia|Gazetteers - Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia]]
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JQU5IHNH6UGILO5L3VB662KPJHNTRGDF ''A new account of East-India and Persia : : in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681''] by John Fryer 1698 London. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.
: A later edition, edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. in three volumes, printed for the Hakluyt Society, (Second Series, 2/19, 2/20 and 2/39) 1909-1915. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31952 Volume 1], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31953 Volume 2], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/49506 Volume 3] Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with additional digital files available. Archive.org mirror versions: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31952 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31953 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49506 Volume III].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e3EfDIAlSCsC&pg=PR3 ''Travels from India to England, comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey etc in the year 1825-26''] by James Edward Alexander, Lieut, late HM’s 13th Light Dragoons. 1827 Google Books
**With an Appendix [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e3EfDIAlSCsC&pg=PA269 "Summary of the causes and events of the existing War between Russia and Persia 1826-27"] , page 269
*[https://archive.org/details/physicalgeograph01stjo ''Eastern Persia: An Account of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870-71-72. Volume I. The Geography with Narratives by Majors St John, Lovett and Euan Smith''] 1876 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/easternpersiaan02commgoog ''Volume II. Zoology and Geology''] by W T Blanford. 1876 Archive.org
*''Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. Frontier of Afghanistan in 1875'', by Colonel C.M. MacGregor. 1879. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082408315?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume I] Hathi Trust Digital Library [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/285074 Pdf download] Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.285074 Archive.org version]; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082408323?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume II] Hathi Trust Digital Library, [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/40188 Pdf download] Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40188 Archive.org version].*''Through Asiatic Turkey. Narrative of a Journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus'' by Grattan Geary, Editor of ''The Times of India'' 1878 [https://archive.org/details/throughasiatict00geargoog ''Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82983 ''Volume II''] [https://archive.org/details/throughasiatict02geargoog ''Volume II'', from page 90 only, but illustrations may be better], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284626 Another file, ''Volume II''] Archive.org, including books from the Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/aridetoindiaacr01windgoog ''A ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan''] by Harry de Windt 1891 Archive.org
*''Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan : including a Summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian Rayahs'' by Mrs Bishop (Isabella L Bird) 1891. [https://archive.org/details/journeysinpersia01birdiala Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/journeysinpersi00birdgoog Volume II] Archive.org
*''Persia and the Persian Question'' (2 Volumes) by George Nathaniel Curzon (Lord Curzon) 1892 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
*Article "Indo British Trade with Persia" by Naoroz M Parveez pages 12-29 ''Imperial and asiatic quarterly review, and oriental and colonial record 1907 Third Series Volume 23'' is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. The article is computer pages 19-36. There is a discussion of the paper from page 106, computer page 113.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/170320 ''The Frontiers Of Baluchistan''] by G P Tate 1909. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.170320 Archive.org version]. Full title ''The Frontiers of Baluchistan : Travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan''. [Seistan (Sistan) Arbitration Mission, 1903-1905]
*''The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900'' by Colonel Sir T Hungerford Holdich [https://archive.org/details/indianborderlan00holdgoog 1901 edition], [https://archive.org/details/indianborderland00holduoft Second and cheaper edition 1909] Archive.org. Contains chapters on the Persian Gulf and the Perso-Baluch Boundary
:[https://archive.org/details/gatesofindiabei00hold ''The Gates of India, being an Historical Narrative''] by Colonel Sir Thomas Holdich 1910
*[https://archive.org/details/persialandofmagi00nwee ''Persia the land of the magi, or, The home of the wise men; an historical and descriptive account of Persia from the earliest ages to the present time; with a detailed view of its people, their manners, ... including Afghanistan and Beloochistan''] by Samuel K Nweeya 1913 Archive.org
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026415688.0x000016 ''Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway'']. File created 8 May 1922. British Library: India Office Records IOR/L/PS/18/C208, in Qatar Digital Library . It includes a brief description of these regions, outlines local British activities during the First World War to counter threats to their interests, and presents the current situation in Mekran and Sarhad. The pages relating to the railway appear to commence digital page 15.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/208590 ''Old Routes Of Western Iran''] by Sir Aurel Stein 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208590 Archive.org version].
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s. He then joined the Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, (page 33) and his later postings included the Persian Gulf and Kuwait. Further details are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/br00itishacademytrbritrich ''The British Academy transliteration of Arabic and Persian. Report of the Committee appointed to draw up a practical scheme for the transliteration into English of words and names belonging to the languages of the Nearer East''] 1917 Archive.org
