Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government. New Series, No. XXIV, 1856, concerning Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and the Islands of the Gulf.
Cambridge, The Oleander Press, 1985
An indispensable guide to the Persian Gulf in the mid-nineteenth century. First published in 1856, the original edition is virtually unobtainable.
4to, xxviii, 687, [1] pp., 6 folding maps (the large folding map of Maritime Arabia with short tear to fold, the Chart of the Persian Gulf with longer tear), original brown cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, light toning to paper, a very good copy.
4to, xxviii, 687, [1] pp., 6 folding maps (the large folding map of Maritime Arabia with short tear to fold, the Chart of the Persian Gulf with longer tear), original brown cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, light toning to paper, a very good copy.
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