Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot Comprising the Suez Canal, the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the South-East Coast of Rabaia from Ras Baghashwa to Ras al Hadd, the Coast of Africa from Ras Asir to Ras Hafun, Socotra and its Adjacent Islands. [Together with 3 supplements, issued 1943-5].

Published by London: Published for the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1932

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The revised and updated eighth edition of this typically comprehensive pilot, here with three scarce supplements issued during the Second World War, including the lengthy booklet of revisions prepared by Read-Admiral Arthur Jackson (1887-1956) and published in 1943. This iteration was prepared by the experienced hydrographer Commander Francis Noel Shearme (1884-1968), a veteran of Jutland. The appendices detail dry docks, patent slips, principal ports and their depths, meteorological tables, and magnetic observation spots. Octavo. Pilot: 29 plates, 2 index charts of Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, illustrations and tables in text, 2 notices printed on pink paper, one tipped in at p. 1. Supplements: 2 plates, folding map. Original red pebble-grain cloth over card boards, spine and front cover lettered in black. Supplements with original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued. Pencil initial on front cover of pilot and 2 supplements; "Supplied for the Admiralty Public Service" ink stamp on first page of pilot. Pilot with cloth heavily worn, text, front inner hinge forced where supplements previously loosely inserted, expected signs of use: a very good copy, the supplements very good or better, one with wrappers foxed, another with losses on rear cover and final page, a couple of letters affected.…

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Title
Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot Comprising the Suez Canal, the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the South-East Coast of Rabaia from Ras Baghashwa to Ras al Hadd, the Coast of Africa from Ras Asir to Ras Hafun, Socotra and its Adjacent Islands. [Together with 3 supplements, issued 1943-5].
Author
ARABIAN PENINSULA.
Publisher
London: Published for the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1932

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