MUSCAT AND PERSIAN GULF
Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Foreign Department... Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residencey and Maskat Political Agency for 1900-1901, FIRST EDITION, half-title, institutional stamps (blind and printed) on title and final leaf, publisher's blue printed boards, rebacked in tape, printed library label on upper cover, folio (335 x 210mm.), Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1901
Footnotes:
Scarce official reports on trade and political relations in the Persian Gulf and Muscat, including a detailed introduction by the resident British Consul and Political Agent, commenting on the Sultan, his tours, customs and taxes, slave trade, an outbreak of plague, and the 'Pearl Dispute'... 'in which the Sultan was interested, connected with the discovery and sale of a pearl of extraordinary value...'.

Provenance: The London Library, with cancel stamps.
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