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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original stiff blue printed wraps with blue cloth spine 19 x 25cm. 46pp including b/w photo frontispiece, XIV figures (b/w photos, mostly full-page, except for one vintage print panorama), and 2 full-page maps (Peninsula of Aden; St Mary's Tank, 1:333) + 2 loose folding sheets in the back pocket: 1) Map of the Aden Tanks 1953, 55 x 44cm, 1:1000; 2) Profile Aden Tanks, 61 x 28cm, 1:1000. Covers very good with some marks. Binding secure. Interiors very good, creased to corners. Both loose sheets fine, neatly folded without tears. Scarce - traced to 15 institutions on Worldcat and Jisc. This work covers the origins, topography, discovery, clearance, and present day survey of the Aden Tanks, drawing on the work of Captain Stafford Haines (who surveyed the Arabian coast in 1835 and saw practical use in restorating the tanks), and Brigadier WM Coughlan (Political Resident, Aden) and Captain RL Playfair (Deputy) who engaged in their restoration in 1856. It also sources Ibn Battuta, Ibn Al-Mojawir, Henry Salt, Harold Ingrams, Richard Burton, Niebuhr, Alfred Jamme (AFSM), Hugh Scott, Bernard Lewis, among others.