UAE pearling fields

Mustafa, Ezzedin Ibrahim / Morsi, Abdullah Muhammad. Dawlat al-Imarat al-'Araabiyah al-Muttahidah [United Arab Emirates].

€ 9,500.00

The first and hitherto most detailed map of the newly-formed United Arab Emirates, showing the undefined border with Saudi Arabia and the early border with Oman, each later to be contested, and featuring the earliest highway system and oil fields and pipelines. In the Gulf, all UAE pearling fields are highlighted in pink. Also marked are the crucial seaports at Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, and Ras Al Khaimah, and the Liwa villages, the ancestral homeland of the Al Nahyan royal family of Abu Dhabi. Includes a table of oil production through 1972 and a small inset map of the concessions of oil companies, including Pan Ocean, Middle East, Abu Dhabi, Philips, and Bandaq Oil Companies, Dubai Petroleum Company, and Abu Dhabi Marine Areas. An English version of the same map appeared in the same year.

Whereas the English version of Morsi's map is recorded in 12 copies, OCLC locates only two copies of the present Arabic issue (Chicago and Exeter University). An even rarer version of the present map was published in a slightly larger format the previous year.

A fantastic record of a newly-born country and the state of its infrastructure and oil industry at the time of unification.