A Complete Illustrated Guide for Tourists and Travellers.
Manama, Bahrain, James H.D. Belgrave, 1957
This scarce guide includes a bibliography, sections on 'The People'; 'Bahrain's Oil Industry'; and 'Religious Occasions & Local Customs'. The folding maps are large and of interest, one being a street map of Manama and the other of the Bahrain Islands.
James Belgrave (1929-79) was the son of Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, advisor to Shaikh Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa and Shaikh Salman ibn Hamad Al-Khalifa during 1926-57.
Third edition; 8vo (22 x 14 cm); 132 pp, 3 maps (2 folding), 24 illustrations, including frontispiece, and 37 pp. of advertisements; bound into buckram library binding preserving upper wrapper, usual markings to cloth, text clean and free from markings, a good copy.
James Belgrave (1929-79) was the son of Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, advisor to Shaikh Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa and Shaikh Salman ibn Hamad Al-Khalifa during 1926-57.
Third edition; 8vo (22 x 14 cm); 132 pp, 3 maps (2 folding), 24 illustrations, including frontispiece, and 37 pp. of advertisements; bound into buckram library binding preserving upper wrapper, usual markings to cloth, text clean and free from markings, a good copy.
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