Oil prospecting.- [Photograph album], 159 gelatin silver prints mounted on 30 thick card leaves, some captioned and dated by hand in pencil, some with typed caption pasted beneath, others without caption, some light spotting or surface soiling to mounts, contemporary navy half morocco, rebacked, little rubbed, photographs v.s. between c.80 x 105mm. & 160 x 210mm., album oblong 4to, [c.1925].

⁂ Uncommon album recording the development of the oil industry at the beginning of the 20th century, showing visits of British representatives to oil prospects in Albania, Oman, Guatemala, Argentina, Persia and others.