Cecil byford (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Small 4to. pp. 153; two folding maps, illusts. inc. many from photos.; very good in the original pictorial papers boards, slightly browned and worn on spine. A nicely produced account of the port, with chapters on its early development, its commerce and services, and the Basrah airport.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon. 20 x 25 cm, 153 p. + cartes dépliantes (maps). Rel. rigide cartonnée illustrée, photographies en noir. Rel. vieillie et rousseurs, intérieur en bon état.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Scarce French language edition, published 2 years after the English. Original illustrated wraps 19 x 25cm. Printed by Waterlow and Sons, England. 153pp including 57 b/w illustrations (mostly photos, including the frontispiece portrait of King Ghazi I), complete with 2 colour folding plans of the port. Covers good, darkened to the edges at the front, heavily marked to the back, with small hole to the spine. Interiors near fine with occasional creasing. Maps fine, neatly folded without tears. This provides an illustrated history and description of the port, its functions and a list of principal directors and officers. The author M.C. Byford, A.M.,Inst.,T. credited as Chef du mouvement, responsible for entry and exit into the port, mooring, lookouts, ballasting etc. The plans include a reference map of the head of the Arabian Gulf.…