Captain Playfair and the attractions of Aden
ESTIMATED at £70-100 but bid way past that level by Taikoo Books of York was a copy of Captain R.L. Playfair’s History of Arabia Felix or Yemen…, a Bombay imprint of 1859 which also includes an account of the British settlement at Aden.
It is one of the earliest books to deal with the British occupation of Aden, which took place in 183…