WILSON, A.T. VOLUME OF THIRTEEN PAMPHLETS ON THE GULF, 1924-1927

The Persian Gulf (from the Edinburgh Review, 1924), 11pp; A Voyage up the Persian Gulf (from the A.P.O.C. magazine, 1924), 11pp.; The Opium trade through Persian spectacles (extract from The Asiatic Review, 1925), pp.181-192; Some Early Travellers in Persia and the Persian Gulf (from the Journal of the Central Asian Society, vol. XII, 1925), 16pp.; The Delta of the Shatt Al Arab and proposals for dredging the bar (from the Geographical Journal, March 1925),  pp. 225 -239; History of the Mission of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, established in Persia by the Reverend Father Alexander of Rhodes (from Bulletin of the School or Oriental and Persian Studies, vol. III, part IV, 1925), 32pp.; History of the Mission of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus in China and other Kingdoms of the East (from the Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, vol. IV, Part I, 1926), pp. 47-57; The Beauties of Persia (from the A.P.O.C. magazine, January 1926), 4pp.; The Middle East (from Journal of the British Institute of International Affairs, March 1926), pp.96-110; The military record and potentialities of the Persian empire (from the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 1926), 21pp.; The Bakhtiaris (from Journal of the Central Asian Society), pp.205-225; Early Spanish and Portuguese travellers in Persia (from the Asiatic Review), 32pp.; A periplus of the Persian Gulf (from the Geographical Journal, March 1927), pp. 235-259Together 13 works (8vo and small 4to), many stamped for presentation, some with photographic or other illustrations, most in original printed wrappers, bound in one volume, typed list bound at beginning, 4to (248 x 183mm.), contemporary maroon pebbled cloth, flat spine with gilt initials "A.T.W.", spine sunned

Wilson, p. 245 (the present volume contains 10 of his 17 works listed in his bibliography)

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?FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE AUTHOR. Sir Arnold T. Wilson (1884–1940) was the British civil commissioner in Baghdad from 1918 to 1920. Wilson served under Percy Cox, the colonial administrator of Mesopotamia (Mandatory Iraq) during and after World War I. He was also the author of a bibliography on Persia (1930). Many of these offprints were produced for presentation by the author or the society who published them. It would appear that this volume of articles, all by Wilson, was probably assembled by the author.