拍品 151
  • 151

SAUDI ARABIA. FIELD NOTES 1935. 1936

估價
25,000 - 30,000 GBP
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描述

  • Field notes on Sa'udi Arabia 1935. [London:] Air Ministry, 1936
Small 4to (250 x 140mm.), 173pp., 19 folding lithographed maps and plans (one large coloured map in pocket at end), 3 lithographed plates of a soldier and tribesmen, other illustrations in text, original sewn binding of green cloth-backed printed boards, slight edge wear to boards

來源

Copy number 586; "Received at Bushire ... 21/6/37.", signed 'E.G. 25/8/37'

Condition

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拍品資料及來源

A RARE BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE HANDBOOK ON ARABIA, marked "CONFIDENTIAL" on the upper cover and title. The foreword states "This report covers the countries in Arabia previously known as the Hejaz, Nejd, and Asir, and now included, with some outlying districts of the peninsula, in Ibn Saud's dominions under the title of Sa'udi Arabia". This detailed report covers all aspects of Arabia, including its history, system of government, population, political and physical geography, climate, communications, resources, and armed forces, together with notes on Wahhabism, and maps and plans covering air and sea routes, tribal areas, plans of Jedda, Mecca, Medina, Riyadh, and Taif, communications, watering points, frontier posts and garrisons, tribes of Asir, sketches, and a general map.