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The Persian Gulf Trade Reports: first published in 1987 in eight volumes.
©Archive Editions, an imprint of Archive International Group, 1987 and 1989.

Reprinted by agreement with the British Library from original works in the India Office
Library & Records, London.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The Persian Gulf trade reports, 1905-1940.
1. Persian Gulf Region — Commerce
382’.0953 HF3762
ISBN 1-85207-050-1
ISBN 1-85207-051-X v. 1 (Muscat I)
ISBN 1-85207-052-8 v. 2 (Muscat II)
ISBN 1-85207-053-6 v. 3 (Bahrain I)
ISBN 1-85207-054-4 v. 4 (Bahrain II)
ISBN 1-85207-055-2 v. 5 (Kuwait I)
ISBN 1-85207-056-0 v. 6 (Kuwait II)
ISBN 1-85207-057-9 v. 7 (Bushirc I)
ISBN 1-85207-058-7 v. 8 (Bushirc II)
Publisher’s note
For conservation reasons, this edition has been prepared from microfilm made available
by the British Library. Many of the original volumes, through age and adverse conditions
in the past, have become fragile and can no longer be handled. A curvature effect is visible
at the inner edge of some pages where the original volume could not be opened fiat during
microfilming. In a few instances, lines may be missing or broken on the originals.
A general reduction in page size of approximately 20% has been applied to the original
reports, some of which vary in format, in the interest of creating a uniform edition. 1

Missing years and supplementary years
Certain reports arc missing from the series. The same gaps are found in the files at the
Public Record Office, suggesting that there were origination or distribution difficulties for
the years in question. The following are the missing reports.
Muscat: 1917-18, 1920-21. Kuwait: 1933-34.
The following reports from the 1940s have been located and arc included in this edition.
Muscat: 1942-43, 1943-44. Bahrain: 1942-43, 1943-44. Kuwait: 1943-44.
The annual series of reports from Bushire ends at 1924. This edition also includes further
occasional reports on economic conditions in the Gulf issued from Bushirc.

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