Cecil Byford (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Small 4to. pp. 153; two folding maps, illusts. inc. many from photos.; very good in the original pictorial papers boards, slightly browned and worn on spine. A nicely produced account of the port, with chapters on its early development, its commerce and services, and the Basrah airport.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. 20 x 25 cm, 153 p. + cartes dépliantes (maps). Rel. rigide cartonnée illustrée, photographies en noir. Rel. vieillie et rousseurs, intérieur en bon état.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Scarce French language edition, published 2 years after the English. Original illustrated wraps 19 x 25cm. Printed by Waterlow and Sons, England. 153pp including 57 b/w illustrations (mostly photos, including the frontispiece portrait of King Ghazi I), complete with 2 colour folding plans of the port. Covers good, darkened to the edges at the front, heavily marked to the back, with small hole to the spine. Interiors near fine with occasional creasing. Maps fine, neatly folded without tears. This provides an illustrated history and description of the port, its functions and a list of principal directors and officers. The author M.C. Byford, A.M.,Inst.,T. credited as Chef du mouvement, responsible for entry and exit into the port, mooring, lookouts, ballasting etc. The plans include a reference map of the head of the Arabian Gulf.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Two folded maps. Handwritten letter in Arabic and English from the Minister of Finance laid in.Compliment sheet laid in. Covers browned. Outside edges foxed. Foxing throughout. Rusty paperclip residue on the inside front cover. Label on inside front cover stating a poisonous insecticidal solution was used in the binding. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 153 pages.…

Ouvrage publié avc l'autorisation de la Direction du Port de Bassora 1937. In 8, pp. 154, tav. con ritr. fotogr. del Re Ghazi I° e numer. ill. fotogr. d'epoca n.t., tavola del Porto di Bassora più volte ripieg. f.t., br. edit. (un po' sporca).

Original stiff illustrated card covers 8vo, 154pp French Text , plates and portraits, + 2 large folding coloured maps A Vg copy and Uncommon.