Western Arabia and the Red Sea.

by NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION

£500 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

With a Little Help from Philby, Gertrude Bell, Freya Stark and Bertram Thomas NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. Western Arabia and the Red Sea. [ OUP for H.M. Stationery Office ]. June 1946. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt; pp. xix, 659, highly illustrated with plates, fold-out maps and panoramas, topographical profiles, colour map in rear pocket; spine and parts of the boards sunned; the lines This book is for official use of persons in H. M. Sevice only and must not be shown, or made available, to the Press or any member of the public on title-verso covered with later label reading This volume was produced and printed for official purposes during the war 1939/45 ; withdrawn from Pembroke College, Cambridge, with bookplate, shelfmark and stamps on endpapers, labels removed from spine; nevertheless a good copy of an important volume. First edition. B. R. 527 (Restricted) Geographical Handbook Series. - One of the best-researched books of the time on the region, including Sinai. "A sub-centre of the Naval Intelligence Division was established at Oxford to recruit contributors of the first quality. It was directed by the Professor of Geography, Lieutenant-Colonel (later Sir) K. Mason who had, after first war service in Mesopotamia and Persia, spent many years in the Survey of India. He himself wrote much of the volume on Iraq and the Persian Gulf. The principal author of the volume Western Arabia and the Red Sea was Dr Hugh Scott of the Natural Hist

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