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A history of Arabia Felix or Yemen,

from the commencement of the Christian era to the present time: including an account of the British settlement of Aden.

Stock Code 112668

Bombay, Education Society's Press, 1859

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The first major history of Yemen by an British author, and one of the earliest accounts of Aden under British occupation. The work covers some 2000 years of Yemeni history icluding the Portuguese presence in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, through an overview of Richard Burton's trip to the Somali coast in 1855, right up to Playfair's first hand experience of the British in Aden.

First edition. 8vo, xii, 193 pp., folding map coloured in outline (tape rrepairs to verso), original plum cloth, faded, repairs to extremities, paper label to spine mostly missing, label to upper cover rubbed, a good copy of a scarce work.

Macro, Arabian Peninsula, 1820; Macro, Yemen, 655.
Provenance

Provenance: J. G. Taylor (armorial bookplate), Vice Consul at Basra, 1851-58 and Consul-General for Kurdistan.

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A history of Arabia Felix or Yemen,

PLAYFAIR, Captain Robert Lambert.

Stock code: 112668

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