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(Captain Philip Howard Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, 7 plates (one loose), folding map, some occasional minor browning to extremities, bookplate, original red cloth, spine faded, minor fraying to spine ends, 1873. *** A scarce work. Colomb captained the H.M.S. Dryad in the Persian Gulf where he made a study of the Arab slave trade centered around Zanzibar and Oman. "His book is by far the most interesting and informative of the accounts published by sundry officers who served on the East India station." Coupland, The Exploitation of East Africa, 1856-1890.