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Lot 139

ARABIA - OIL FIELDS
[ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES] Neft ba-mizrah ha-tikhon. Zikaynot, shadot, tzinorot, batei zikuk. [Oil in the Middle East. Concessions, Oilfields, Pipelines, Refineries], Tel-Aviv, IDF, 1957

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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ARABIA - OIL FIELDS

[ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES] Neft ba-mizrah ha-tikhon. Zikaynot, shadot, tzinorot, batei zikuk. [Oil in the Middle East. Concessions, Oilfields, Pipelines, Refineries], folding chromolithographed map printed in red, blue and black, depicting the Arabian Peninsula including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and North and South Yemen, to the scale of 1:5,000,000, text in Hebrew, with explanatory panels also in English, one or 2 small smudges, 3 small holes in sea area at old folds, 822 x 560mm., Tel-Aviv, IDF, 1957

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Rare map of the Arabian peninsula, produced by the Israel Defence Forces, showing oilfields, pipelines and related infrastructures and naming the multitude of American, European and local companies companies vying for business in the shifting geopolitical situation arising in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis. Named companies include "Bahrain Petroleum Company", "Anglo-Saxon Petroleum", "Dhofar Cities Service Petroleum Co.", "Khanaqin Oil Company", "Arabian-American Oil Company", "Kuwait Oil Company", "Socony Mobil Oil Company", and "Egyptian-German Oil Company".

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