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Title: A handbook of Libya. Compiled by the Geographical Section of Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. .
Description: London, His Majety's Stationary Office, [1920]. 628 pp. [24] b./w. plans & [5] maps (in 3 col. fold. maps). Orig. hardcover binding (blind stamped blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine). 12mo. - Professionally rebacked (orig. spine mounted on new spine). - With some stamps on title-page, verso maps, etc. (Publication number: I.D.1162).Rare official handbook of the Naval Intelligence Division (NID) of the United Kingdom. The division was created as a component part of the Admiralty War Staff in 1912. It was the intelligence arm of the British Admiralty before the establishment of a unified Defence Intelligence Staff in 1964. It dealt with matters concerning British naval plans, with the collection of naval intelligence. - It containes a.o. lithographed maps (offset) from Libya, Tripoli and Cyrenaica. - The subject of the present handbook is the Italian province officially known as Libia, or, in the English form [...] Libya. The body of the work contains brief descriptions of a few places and tribes lying outside the frontiers of this privince, and the routes described include some which traverse other countries such as Egypt and Tunisia, but with these exceptions the book is concerned exclusively with Libya. [Note from publisher].

Keywords: Ethnography Africa Libya Etnografie Afrika Libië