Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1338
  • 1338

Whigham, Henry James

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Description

  • The Persian Problem. An Examination of the Rival Positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia with some Account of the Persian Gulf and the Bagdad Railway. London: Isbister and Co. Ltd., 1903
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (220 x 135mm.), xvi, 424pp., 4 maps [2 in the text], 25 photo illustrations on 23 plates, original oatmeal cloth, top edge gilt

Provenance

Bessie Ramsay Rogers, small bookplate on verso of title

Literature

Ghani p.394 (American edition); Wilson p.243

Catalogue Note

Contains chapters on the Pearl Islands of the Gulf, the Pirate Coast, Kuwait, the commerce and politics of the Gulf, the oil-fields of Persia, British policy in Persia and Russia's advance on Persia via the Caucasus.