Kuwait | A Collection of 5 volumes and a map, 1928-1959

Kuwait

A collection of 5 volumes and a map on Kuwait and the oil industry, comprising:

i) The Story of Kuwait.London: Walter Pearce & Co. for Kuwait Oil Company Limited, January 1957. 4to (248 x 185mm.), 80pp, photographs, diagrams, and maps throughout, original light blue printed wrappers, wrappers slightly browned atextremities

ii) Roderick Owen. The Golden Bubble: Arabian Gulf Documentary. London: Collins, 1957. Photographic frontispiece, 12 further plates (2 to a page, and on both recto and verso), original red buckram, spine gilt-lettered, dust-jacket, frontispiece portrait becoming detached, dust-jacket frayed at extremities

iii) Henry Longhurst. Adventure in Oil: The Story of British Petroleum... with a foreword by The Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1959. 8vo (233 x 159mm.), photographic illustrations, original green cloth, endpapers depicting maps of Saudi Arabia and the activities of British Petroleum, dust-jacket, slight dampstaining to binding, dust-jacket frayed at extremities with closed tear to lower panel

iv) The Persian Gulf: an historical sketch from the earliest times to the beginning of the twentieth century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928. 4to (237 x 162mm.), colour lithographed frontispiece, 19 further plates, folding map in pocket at end, original black cloth, spine gilt-lettered, browned at extremities, spine becoming detached along joints, extremities rubbed

v) Eric Macro. Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula. Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami Press, 1958. 4to (279 x 216mm.), 80pp., original green paper wrappers, backstrip discoloured

vi) Map of Iraq and Kuwait with oilfields. August 1959, updated 1969-1970, comprising 2 maps joined, with sections cut out to facilitate joining, max. 520 x 485mm., possibly extracted from an oil industry publication, small closed tear, pin holes, and holepunch holes at margins

A collection of uncommon works and a map relating to Kuwait and the oil industry.