Hunter Frederic Editor (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. tight, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket hardbound.

vg+/vg+, very light shelf wear, clean & tight. Illustrated by sketches. 1st (NAP) edition. Binding is hc.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Presumed first edition. 8vo. Cloth. 213 p. Illustrated. A selection of essays and poems found in the Home Forum section of the Christian Science Monitor by such notable authors as Paul Theroux, Virginia Graham, John Gould, Barbara Tuchman, Jamake Highwater, and numerous others. Fine in fine dustjacket in mylar cover.

Magazine. 128p., very good digest size magazine in pictorial wraps.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Large detailed terrain map of the Persian Gulf and the surrounding area with a legend of geographic denominations in English, Arabic and Persian, such as "Fort: Qasr (Arabic), Kaleh, Kalat (Persian)". The map shows terrain levels in particular detail and the major roads, railways and telegraph lines. The sheet latitude limits are: "24° - 32° north and 44° - 60° south", including Qatar, Kuwait, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and more.The map was published in 1912 by the India Survey Office under the direction of Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard (1860-1953), who was Colonel and Surveyor General of India in that year. He was closely involved in the geographical and cartographic survey of India, especially the Himalayas, and retired one year after publication of the present map.As the Southern Persia sheet, the present map is part of a very large 9-sheet combined map covering the area from the Red Sea to India, called the Survey of India Southern Asia Series (1912-1945). The present map and a separately published index could be obtained only on application through an officer at the Map Record and Issue Office in Calcutta.Some slight foxing. A tiny tear on the crossing of two folds, bottom edge frayed. Otherwise in good condition.l Daniel Foliard, "Conflicted cartographies of a peninsula", in: Geographies of contact, 2019, pp. 71-76; F. Fraser Hunter, "Reminiscences of the map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf", in: The geographical journal, 54 (1919), pp. 355-363. Folded. Large photozincographed (heliozincographed) folding map on a scale of 1:2,000,000 in black, blue and red, with relief shown by contours, hachures and gradient tints.