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PLAYFAIR, Captain Robert Lambert.

A history of Arabia Felix or Yemen,

A history of Arabia Felix or Yemen,

from the commencement of the Christian era to the present time: including an account of the British settlement of Aden.

Stock Code 112668

Bombay, Education Society's Press, 1859

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The first major history of Yemen by a British author, and one of the earliest accounts of Aden under British occupation. The work covers some 2000 years of Yemeni history icluding the Portuguese presence in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, through an overview of Richard Burton's trip to the Somali coast in 1855, right up to Playfair's first-hand experience of the British in Aden.

J.G. Taylor was Vice Consul at Basra from 1851 to 1858 and Consul-General for Kurdistan.

First edition; 8vo, xii, 193 pp.; folding map coloured in outline (tape repairs to verso), original plum cloth, faded, repairs to extremities, paper label to spine mostly missing, label to upper cover rubbed, a good copy of a scarce work.

Macro (Arabian Peninsula), 1820; Macro (Yemen), 655.

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Provenance: J.G. Taylor (armorial bookplate).

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