Cox percy et al (3 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Original blue printed wraps 21 x 34cm, original title pages, xviii + 164pp. Wraps fair only, with loss to spine, and small chips to edges. Interiors near fine. Document, containing 339 items dated 13 Feb to 7 Oct 1913. Recurrent themes include the rumoured return of ex-Shah Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar who had been deposed in 1909 ("The Cabinet are anxious about his real movements, as there are repeated reports of activity among His Majesty's partisans in Europe, and they fear that the influence of Shuja-ed-Dowleh would secure his reception in Azerbaijan with open arms. Reports of the arrival of suspicious persons disguised as dervishes on the Turco-Persian frontier are constantly coming in." (p16), followed by much on his actual or rumoured whereabouts, possible disguises, Russian help blocking his return etc; operations against Salah ed Dowleh, capture, escape and banishment; Mohammerah-Khoremabad and Julfa-Tabriz Railways; regional and oil field security; Indian and Russian troop movements; damage to trade from exorbitant mule transport costs; caravan movements and security; Colonel Harald Hjalmarson's Swedish Gendarmerie (protecting against tribal raids on roads and in rural areas); the murder of Mme Constant (wife of Belgian Director of Customs); Captain Wilson's "urgent" survey (demarcating the Turco-Persian boundary); debt to Russia. A final document refers to abandonment of elections.…

8vo. (24 x 16cm). pp.x+96. Original blue printed card covers. Numerous photographic illustrations throughout, double-sided folding sheet depicting sketches of Weigeu and Japen. Some light trivial wear, generally a very good copy. With an obituary of Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox: "The sudden death of Sir Percy Cox on 20 February 1937 while hunting with the Oakley Foxhounds brought to an end a career of unusual distinction and brilliance, made in the torrid climate of the Persian Gulf, and in Arabia, Persia, and Iraq". Contents include the following articles: Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox. NIELSEN, A Volcano Under an Ice-Cap. VatnaJokull, Iceland. FORDE, Land and Labour in a Cross River Village, Southern Nigeria. BALCHIN, W.G.V., The Erosion Surfaces of North Cornwall.…

8vo. (24 x 16cm). Original blue printed card covers. With Cox's interesting review of Ameen Rihani's book "Ibn Sa'oud of Arabia: His People and his Land" (1928), which he praises and critiques in equal measure, concluding that his book is "particularly valuable at the present time.whether Sultan 'Abdul 'Aziz, since recognized by H.M.'s Government as King of the Hejaz and of Nejd, will altogether appreciate the partial lifting of the veil from the recesses of his private life is perhaps doubtful". Numerous photographic illustrations throughout, folding map of the Valleys and Glaciers in Hunza. Light wear and soiling to covers with partial losses to extremities of spine, generally very good. Contents include the following articles: Morris, Captain C.J. - Some Valleys and Glaciers in Hunza Cameron, Lieut. D.R.G. - A Journey across the Sahara from Kano to Ouarghla Grossland, Cyril - The Islands of Tahiti Cochran-Patrick, Major C.K. - The Kabompo Gorge in Northern Rhodesia A.R.H. - Air Survey: Review P.Z.C. - The Wahhabi King: Review D.W.F. - Raymond's Map of the Alps.…