RENDEL, PALMER & TRITTON. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Port of Aqaba. Consulting Engineers' Report. London, April 1953.
Folio. Original two-tone cloth, lettered in black; ff. iv, 45, viii, text on rectos only, 4 leaves of plates with 20 photographic illustrations, 11 maps, plans and elevations on tracing paper, mostly folding, one leaf 'Statistics of Port Traffic' tipped in at the beginning, one leaf 'The Amman Ma'an-Desert Road' tipped in at rear, maps and photographic section separated by numbered tabs protruding from green card stock; very light rubbing to extremities, one corner bumped, front cover with discolouration, still a good copy with 'withdrawn' stamp on front fly-leaf.
Very rare report by the engineers tasked with surveying possible extensions and developments of the Kingdom's only sea port, one of the most important ports of the Arabian Peninsula.
WorldCat lists only one copy, at Oxford.
#2120526