Book Description

Map of Bandar Abbas with Oman, Abu Dhabi and southern Iran. Published by the British War Office, London 1957. On treated cotton size 72 by 63 cm, Scale 1:1,000,000. Coded GSGS 350 Misc. 1st edition of this escape map. With a key to features including caravan halting places, forts, mosques, wireless stations etc.; a second key to geographical features and a glossary of Iranian terms used in the map. Some colour. Folds down to pocket size. VG condition. To the reverse is a map of Hofuf on the same scale. This is marked restricted. It covers Qatar, neighbouring parts of Saudi Arabia and some of the coast of Trucial Oman. The map has a key to towns of various sizes and provinces (with their tribal names), railways (with their various gauges), oil pipe lines and oil wells etc, and another key to features such as rivers, fords, canals, waterholes, wells, post offices, churches, mosques, minarets, tombs, temples and forts. VG condition.
Author British War Office
Date 1957
Publisher British War Office
Condition VG

Price: £275.00

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