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1. Alexander, Boyd. From the Niger to the Nile. London: Edward Arnold, 1907. £225 First edition. 8vo. 2 vols. pp. xv, 358 &. xi, 420; numerous b&w plates and photo. illusts., 3 folding maps; one plate frayed at foot (p. 86 vol. I), neat repairs to folds of maps, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, a little soiled. Czech African p. 3. Boyd Alexander (1873-1910) explored from Lokoja on the Niger to Berber on the Nile, via Lake Chad; the team included his brother Claude, Captain Gosling, and his assistant José Lopez. En route they had numerous chances for sport - lion, elephant - and met local people, descriptions of whom feature throughout the narrative. The 3-year undertaking proved hazardous, and both Claude Alexander and Gosling lost their lives to disease. On his return, Boyd Alexander received the Gold Medal from London’s Royal Geographical Society. He undertook a second expedition in 1909 with Lopez, but was murdered in the African town of Nyeri, east of Lake Chad. 2. Baden-Powell, R. S. S. The Downfall of Prempeh. A Diary of Life with the Native Levy in Ashanti 1895-6. London: Methuen & Co., 1896. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. 199; one sketch map, illusts. from sketches; occasional very minor foxing, else VG in the original cloth, gilt. Baden-Powell, later to become founder of the Scouts, led a native levy of local tribes in the fourth Ashanti war. The British forces deposed

Prempeh, the Ashanti king, without any loss of blood, though sickness led to deaths among the Europeans, including that of Prince Henry of Battenberg (Queen Victoria’s son-in-law). 3. Baden-Powell, R. S. S. The Matabele Campaign 1896 being a Narrative of the Campaign in suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland. London: Methuen & Co., 1897. £50 Second edition (same year as first). 8vo. pp. xv, 500; sketch map, illusts. inc. some full-page; pencil markings to margins and notes at rear, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed and marked on spine. Baden-Powell served in the campaign, and based his book on his diary, letters home, and illustrations from his own sketches or photographs. 4. Baden-Powell, Sir Robert. Indian Memories. Recollections of Soldiering, Sport, etc. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1915. £125 First edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 363; 16 coloured plates, b&w illusts.; a little spotting, else VG in the original blue cloth, gilt. Czech Asian p. 17. Sir Robert Baden-Powell pursued a successful military career which began with the 13th Hussars in India, 1876. During his time there, Baden-Powell took part in the 1880 Afghan campaign, and saw action on the North-West Frontier. In between times, he devoted himself to hunting and sport, notably pig-sticking and tigerhunting. Indian Memories offers an entertaining account of his ‘Indian years’, full of incident and anecdote.

7. British Empire Exhibition 1924. Official Guide. Edited by G. C. Lawrence. London: Fleetway Press Ltd., n.d. [1924]. £50 First edition. 8vo. pp. 128; folding world map in front pocket, folding plan of exhibition, numerous photo. portraits and illusts.; very good in the original printed card wrappers, rubbed and soiled.

5. [Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, et al.] Everard Digby, ed. Indian Ink. Being splashes from various pens in aid of The Imperial Indian War Fund. Fourth Year. Calcutta: The Office of “Indian Ink”, 1917. £150 First edition. 4to. pp. [xxxvi, coloured and b&w adverts.], 52, [xxiv, coloured and b&w adverts.]; coloured frontis., coloured and b&w plates; a few corners creased, else good in the original pictorial wrappers, soiled, worn on spine. Sold for Christmas 1917 as the “Special Mesopotamia Number” of Indian Ink, this magazine contains a 3pp. article by Gertrude Bell on ‘The Arab of Mesopotamia’ (a book-length treatment of the subject also appeared in Basra this same year), C. P. Skrine’s 3pp. ‘A Persian Adventure’, other anecdotes, poems, and stories of life in Mesopotamia. 6. Bliss, Harold C. J. The Relief of Kumasi. London: Methuen & Co., 1901. £45 Second edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 315, 48 (booksellers’ catalogue); sketch maps and illusts., one folding map; some spotting, embrowning to endpapers, good in the original cloth, gilt, very slightly faded on spine. An account of the fifth Ashanti War of 1900 by an officer of the West African Frontier Force.

The British Empire Exhibition ran from 1924 to 1925 at Wembley, with exhibits from almost all of the countries then forming part of the Empire. Some 27 million visitors attended its fixed exhibitions, pageants, and other events. The present guide gives details of the various ‘palaces’ in which the events took place, with details of each of the countries taking part. 8. [Brownlow, C. H.] The Despatches of Right Column Looshai Expeditionary Force. 30th November, 1871. Extracts [drop title]. N.p., n.d. c. 1872. £125 ?First edition. 8vo. pp. 13, [3, blanks]; watermark to penultimate leaf, minor spotting, else good in self-wrappers, previous owner’s inscription to first leaf. This appears to be an extracted version taken from the Despatches of Brigadier General C. H. Brownlow, C.B., Aide-de-camp to the Queen, commanding Chittagong Column, Looshai Expeditionary Force, 187172 (Calcutta, 1872), with wording identical to the fuller Calcutta version. The pamphlet summarises the punitive expedition against the Lushai tribes in Assam. This expedition was prompted by a series of attacks the tribes had made, which culminated in the murder of a British tea planter and the abduction of his daughter, six-year old Mary Winchester. The Despatches describe the troop movements from Brownlow’s arrival at Chittagong in October, 1871, and the eventual safe recovery of Mary Winchester. We have been unable to locate any other copy of this abbreviated version of Brownlow’s report.

9. Brownlow, Charles. Stray Notes on Military Training and Khaki Warfare. Not for publication, n.d. c. 1909. £225 ?First edition. 8vo. pp. 194; 8 plates; previous owner’s inscription (dated 1918), occasional spotting, else near-fine in the original red cloth, gilt, paper label typed with words “Not For Publication” to upper cover. According to the Preface, “These notes and letters have been put together and printed, in the order of their recent interest rather than their dates, as a small contribution to the burning question of ‘Compulsory Military Training’.” Brownlow’s comments relate to the wars in South Africa, Chitral, the Zukka Kel Expedition and other North West Frontier expeditions, Nepal, Afghanistan, and India, with one chapter reproducing a biographical entry from The Times for June 22, 1908, concerning Brownlow himself, “The New Field Marshall”. The book seems to have been produced for Brownlow in a series of printings library holdings indicate that the book was also produced several times by the Women’s Printing Society with larger numbers of pages (pp. 203, 225 an 255), presumably as Brownlow added to his writings. 10. Bruce, C. E. Waziristan 1936-1937. The Problems of the NorthWest Frontiers of India and their Solutions. Aldershot: Gale & Polden, Ltd., [1938]. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. xi, 80; 2 folding maps at rear; very good in the original sandy cloth, lettered in black, fading to cloth around extremities of spine and boards. Bruce spent many years on the North-West Frontier and in Baluchistan, and his book discusses the various challenges for administration in the region presented by tribes, past policy, infrastructure. He offers proposals for a future policy in an area that remains as troubled today as at the time of his writing. 11. [Burnaby, Fred.] Thomas Wright. The Life of Colonel Fred Barnaby. London: Everett & Co., 1908. £100 First edition. 8vo. pp. [xv], 311, [x, appendix and index]; 48 plates; slight age-toning, else very good in the original black cloth, gilt, t.e.g., rubbing to extremities. Inscription in pencil to flyleaf: “This book belonged to Reginald Talbot (commanding Heavy Camel Regiment in Soudan Campaign of 1884-5)”.

This volume tells of the life and adventures of Colonel Fred Burnaby, from his childhood and schooldays at Harrow to his entry into the Royal Horse Guards and subsequent Army career. Aeronautics emerged as a particular passion fairly early in his life, and while general opinion was against him, Burnaby dedicated both effort and finance to the cause of establishing a “fleet in the firmament”. His travels in countries exotic and unknown inspired him to author several works, including A Ride to Khiva and On Horseback through Asia Minor. As politician he was involved in the founding of the Primrose League, and found great satisfaction - though not success - in running as the Conservative candidate for Birmingham. His enthusiasm and spirit in all fields of endeavour led his Company, on his demise at the battle of Abou Klea, to mourn the death of “the bravest man in England”. 12. Chesney, Francis Rawdon. The Russo-Turkish Campaigns of 1828 and 1829: with a View of the Present State of Affairs in the East. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1854. £125 Second edition. 8vo. pp. xxxix, 448, 16 (pubs. cat.); 2 folding maps inc. frontis.; some occasional spotting, adhesion damage to flyleaf, armorial bookplate of Aretas Akers, good in the original cloth, gilt, browned on spine and discoloured on boards. Chesney (1789-1872) followed an undistinguished military career until in 1829 he “set out for Constantinople, hoping to serve the Turks in their war with Russia” (ODNB). After the Treaty of Adrianople, he visited Alexandria, and learned that the British were endeavouring to find new routes to India. This planted the seed of an idea that grew into his Euphrates expedition of 1835-6, when he commanded two steamships down the Euphrates in an attempt to demonstrate the river’s navigability and potential for an overland route to India. The full narrative of the expedition did not begin to appear until 1850, after Chesney had returned to Britain, and a delay in the publication of the work - ultimately only two of a projected four volumes were printed led him to write other works based on his time in the Ottoman Empire. The present work draws on information Chesney gathered concerning the Russo-Turkish wars of the 1820s, and sets them in the final sections of the book in the context of the renewed conflicts of the 1850s. This second edition includes a new preface updating the reader on events in Turkey.

13. Childers, Erskine. German Influence on British Cavalry. London: Edward Arnold, 1911. £195 First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 215, 8 (pubs’ ads.); occasional foxing, else good in the original red cloth, lettered in black, chipping to extremities of spine, some marking or discolouration to cloth. Childers, famous for his book The Riddle of the Sands and for his support of Irish Home Rule, in 1910 wrote War and the Arme Blanche, a critical discussion of outmoded British cavalry tactics. The book drew criticism from the Prussian general Friedrich von Bernhardi, and Childers responded in the present work, in which he reviews arguments for the cavalry’s role in modern warfare. 14. Crowe, George. The Commission of H.M.S. “Terrible” 1898-1902. London: George Newnes, 1903. £195 First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, [2], 370; numerous plates of illusts. and maps, a few sketch maps; some foxing, previous owners’ bookplate and inscription at front, very good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed. H.M.S. Terrible, launched in 1895, was in 1899 proceeding to the China station when she was instead instructed to sail to South Africa. There her men played an important role in the relief of Ladysmith, with both marines and seamen being landed to assist in the military campaign. In mid-March 1900, Terrible proceeded to China via Mauritius, Sri Lanka, and Singapore, reaching Hong Kong on May 3. During her time on the China Station, she was engaged in another significant event of the period - the Boxer Rebellion. On June 16 1900, she departed for Taku, calling also at Chefu and Wei Hai Wei. Once again, men and guns from Terrible were disembarked for active service, joining the international forces ranged against the Chinese at Tientsin and Peking. Crowe, the ship’s Master-at-Arms, here provides accounts of the Terrible’s time in both South Africa and China.

16 15. Curzon, George N., Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Tales of Travel. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1923. £125 First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 344; port. frontis., plates, one folding map; some foxing, occasionally heavy, inscription to flyleaf, else very good in the original cloth, gilt. Curzon collected in this book memories of his travels, many in the Far East but others relating to Afghanistan, Africa, and elsewhere. One section, ‘The Billiard table of Napoleon’, recalls his visit to Longwood House on St. Helena, where his knowledge, gained from accounts of Napoleon’s captivity there, exceeded that of his host. 16. [Curzon.] The Earl of Ronaldshay [Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland]. The Life of Lord Curzon being the Authorised Biography of George Nathaniel Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., [1928]. £275 First edition. 3 vols. 8vo. pp. 318, 424, & 457; plates; near fine in the original cloth, gilt, in original d.-w.s., which are internally repaired to head and tail of spines.

17. Das, Taraknath. British Expansion in Tibet. Calcutta: N. M. Raychowdhury & Co., n.d. c. 1927. £375 First edition. 8vo. pp. [viii], 137; some foxing, embrowning to endpapers, small section torn from outer margin of rear free endpaper, else very good in the original cloth-backed boards, somewhat rubbed and discoloured. Yakushi D62. An uncommon work, dedicated by the author “to the memory of Late Dr. Sun Yat Sen”, with chapters on “Curzon’s Forward Policy”, the “Anglo-Japanese Alliance; Russo-Japanese War: and Younghusband’s Expedition to Tibet”, “Tibet since Younghusband’s Expedition”, and the “Washington Conference and Tibet”. The book is held by the British Library, SOAS, and libraries in France and Berlin. 18. Del Mar, Walter. India of Today. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. £20 First edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, 288; photo. plates; some foxing, embrowning to endpapers, else very good in the original cloth, slightly soiled. A book published in anticipation of the “approaching visit of T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales to India”. 19. Emery, Frank. The Red Soldier. Letters from the Zulu War, 1879. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1977]. £65 First edition. 8vo. pp. 288; photo. illusts.; very good in the original rexine, d.j. (rubbed).

20. [Equipment.] Joseph Tucker, Indian, Colonial and General Outfitter. The most up-to-date and approved equipment for Prospectors, Miners, Explorers, Travellers, and Residents Abroad . . . Press Notices and Extracts of Letters. George Plucker & Sons, London and Wealdstone, n.d. c. 1903. £125 ?First edition. Oblong foolscap. pp. 14; 3 full-page illusts. from photos., sketches of equipment to text; a little creased in the original pink printed wrappers, string tied as issued. This is an advertising brochure for the stockist Joseph Tucker, supplier of clothing, beds, mosquito netting, and similar equipment for overseas missionaries and travellers. The text largely comprises plaudits from various sources - missionary societies, Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, and elsewhere - for these products, with an emphasis on the “Unique Canopy, perfect protection from Malarial Mosquitos, Sand Flies, and Chiggers”. The three large photographic illustrations show the Joseph Tucker exhibits at the Livingstone Exhibitions of 1900 and 1901, and for the 1903 exhibition at the College of Surgeon’s Hall, Victoria Embankment, London. The business was based in Newington Green Road, and appeared on a list of suppliers in Charles Harford’s Hints on Outfit for Travellers in Tropical Countries, published by the RGS in 1911. 21. Fleming, Peter. Bayonets to Lhasa. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. £25 First edition. 8vo. pp. 319; photo. illusts., sketch maps; good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly marked, in original dust-jacket, which is darkened on spine with central vertical crease. A readable history of the British forced entry into Tibet under Sir Francis Younghusband in 1903-4. 22. Forbes, Archibald. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80. London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1896. £25 Fifth edition. 8vo. pp. [vii], 337, [6, ads.]; 5 plans, 4 ports.; some embrowning to first and final leaves, else good in the original cloth, gilt.

An overview by the war correspondent Archibald Forbes (1838-1900).

Items 21, 22, 23, 24, 26 (vol. I), 28, 26 (vol. II), 27, 29, 30

25 23. French, Lt.-Col. F. J. F. From Whitehall to the Caspian. London: Odhams Press Limited, n.d. c. 1920. £250 First edition. 8vo. pp. 255; 8 photo. plates, 2 folding maps at rear; previous owner’s inscription to flyleaf, near fine in the original cloth, in the scarce original d.-w., which is slightly chipped. Peter Hopkirk’s copy, with his bookplate. In the wake of the First World War, British forces were drawn into subsidiary conflicts in the disintegrating Ottoman and Russian Empires. French served with British forces in the Caucasus and describes the British occupation of Baku and the onset of the Russian Civil War from c. July 1918 to August 1919. The book is very uncommon in the dustjacket, as here. 24. [Gordon, C. G., Gordon of Khartoum.] George Birkbeck Hill, ed. Colonel Gordon in Central Africa 1874-1879 … From Original Letters and Documents. London: Thos. de la Rue, 1881. £225 First edition. 8vo. pp. xlii, [i], 456, 11 (ads.); port. frontis., one facsimile letter, one plate, one folding sketch map; minor spotting to fore-edge, else very good in the original cloth, gilt. In 1873 Gordon became governor-general of Equatoria. His primary undertaking was the suppression of the slave trade in the region, but

he also established a chain of stations stretching into Uganda, and made surveys of the Nile and the lakes (as part of which project he sent Romolo Gessi to Lake Albert). The present work draws on letters written by Gordon to his family, as well as public documents, to describe his work in Central Africa. 25. [Great Britain.] Colonial Office. Empire Conference of Survey Officers 1928. Report of Proceedings. London: HMSO, 1929. £150 First edition. Royal 8vo. pp. 218; diags. and plates of instruments, three folding maps, two folding typographic charts to accompany the article “Lettering on Maps”; upper outer corners of prelims. creased, else good in the original cloth-backed printed boards, stained to upper board, ownership inscription of Lieut. J. C. I. Willis R.E. to upper cover. “This report embodies the papers read before the Empire Conference of Survey Offices and the proceedings of its various meetings. The conference marks a new stage in the development of the surveys of the Empire”. Among those in attendance were W. C. Bottomley of the Colonial Office (Chairman); Rear-Admiral H. P. Douglas, Hydrographer to the Navy; Colonel H. St. J. L. Winterbotham, Chief of the Geographical Section of the War Office; and Brigadier E. M. Jack, Director-General of the Ordnance Survey, who contributes a chapter on ‘History and Work of the Ordnance Survey’. The conference, held

in Cambridge, was the first of its kind; a second took place in 1931, followed by others at four-yearly intervals, and continuing today as the Cambridge Conference, a global event of national mapping organisations. 26. Hill, M. F. Permanent Way. The Story of the Kenya and Uganda Railway. Being the official history of the development of the Transport System in Kenya and Uganda. [Permanent Way. Volume II. The Story of the Tanganyika Railways.] Nairobi, Kenya: East African Railways and Harbours, [1950 & 1957]. £175 First editions. Medium 4to. 2 vols. pp. xii, 582 & xii, 295; 2 folding coloured maps, 20 illustrations from photographs on 14 plates to vol. I, 1 folding coloured map, 45 illustrations from photographs on 30 plates to vol. II; VG in the original cloth, slightly bumped, in the original d.w.s, which are browned and frayed with some loss. An authoritative account of the development of the East African railway system, analysed in the context of the history of British East Africa. 27. Hobday, Major E. A. P. Sketches on Service during the Indian Frontier Campaigns of 1897. London: James Bowden, 1898. £50 First edition. 8vo. pp. 159; numerous sketches from the author’s originals; some staining to lower outer margins affecting most of book, hence a good reading copy only in the original cloth, gilt. The authors provides brief descriptions for his sketches made during the Malakand campaign, the expedition to the Swat Valley, and similar expeditions. 28. Homer, A. N. The Imperial Highway. London: Sir Joseph Causton & Sons Limited, n.d. c. 1912. £125 First edition. 4to. pp. 119, [41, ads.]; frontis. and numerous illusts. from photos.; bumped to lower outer corners, else very good in the original padded faux-leather, gilt, t.e.g., sunned on spine and adjacent areas of boards. This is a well-illustrated narrative of the author’s journey from England to Canada aboard the Empress of Ireland, across Canada by the Canadian Pacific Railway, and from Victoria B.C. by the Empress of

Japan to Yokohama and China. The advertisements at the rear relate to notable institutions and companies (banks, steel works, shipbuilders, manufacturers, etc.). 29. Hopkirk, Peter. Trespassers on the Roof of the World. The Race for Lhasa. London: John Murray, [1982]. £10 First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 274; illusts., sketch maps; VG in original cloth, in d.-w. which is sunned on spine and with snag to head of upper joint. An overview of the exploration of Tibet in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 30. Hotten, J. C., ed. Abyssinia and its People; or, Life in the Land of Prester John. London: John Camden Hotten, 1868. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. vi, 384, [8, ads.]; 8 coloured plates by Vignaud and Barrat, one folding coloured map; slight age-toning to text, else very good in the original patterned blue and black cloth, gilt, a little chipped to head of spine. Hotten both edited and published the present work to address the isuse of the ‘hostage crisis’ in Abyssinia at that date. The Abyssinian Emperor Theodore II had in 1863-4 taken prisoner several Europeans, and by October 1867 - the date of Hotten’s preface - Queen Victoria has already declared in favour of an expedition to release the hostages. Hotten’s book aims to provide background to the expedition: details of previous travellers to the country, George Badger’s account of the prisoners (continued by the editor to July 1867), an overview of the routes the expedition might take suggested by such authorities as Samuel Baker, Colonel Merewether, Dr. Krapf and Charles Beke, and a bibliography of books on Abyssinia.

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35 31. Hutchinson, Colonel H. D. The Campaign in Tirah 1897 - 1898. An Account of the Expedition against the Orakzais and Afridis under General Sir Wiliam Lockhart. London: Macmillan and Co., 1898. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 250, [2, ads.]; 21 full-page illustrations, maps and plans, of which three folding; slight age-toning, else a very good copy in the original cloth, inkstamp of the Solicitors Supreme Courts Library, Edinburgh, to title-page with their monogram in gilt to upper cover, cloth a little marked. Hutchinson was present during this expedition on the North West Frontier, and his account offers an analysis of the entire course of the campaign. 32. Jackson, Frederick. Early Days in East Africa. London: Edward Arnold, 1930. £225 First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 399; port. frontis., 16 plates, one folding map; very good in the original cloth, rubbed, unevenly faded on spine. Czech African p. 82. Jackson served as Lieutenant-Governor of the East Africa Protectorate 1907-1911, and Governor of Uganda 1911-1917. His first visit to Africa was a hunting trip in 1884, when he also joined an expedition to explore the coast lands of Kenya, the Tana River, and the slopes of Kilimanjaro. He joined the Imperial British East Africa Company, and in 1889 was appointed leader of an expedition to open

up the regions between Mombasa and Lake Victoria; he was also asked to obtain news of Emin Pasha and of Stanley’s relief expedition. On his return he was involved with proceedings which resulted in Uganda coming under the administration of Britain. The present work offers his account of these ‘early days’. 33. Keay, John. When Men and Mountains Meet. The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1820-75. London: John Murray, [1977]. £12 First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 277; illusts., sketch maps; VG in the original cloth, d.-w. Yakushi K93. An overview of exploration in Central Asia and the Himalayas, from William Moorcroft to the Yarkand Missions. 34. Keay, John. The Honourable Company. A History of the East India Company. London: HarperCollins, [1991]. £25 First edition, second printing. 8vo. pp. xx, 475; illusts., maps; VG in the original cloth, d.-w. 35. [Lawrence, T. E.] St. Paul’s Cathedral. Form of Service used at the Unveiling of the Memorial to Thomas Edward Lawrence Lawrence of Arabia. Wednesday, 19th January, 1937 at 5.30 P.M. [London:] R. E. Thomas & Newman, Limited [for the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Committee], 1936. £275

First edition. 8vo. pp. [8]; port. illust. of Lawrence from Kennington’s bust; light foxing, minor soiling, small closed tear to foot of first leaf, else good, stapled in self wrappers, slightly creased. O’Brien E093. The service, at which the Viscount Halifax unveiled the Memorial in the Crypt, was accompanied by “music of which T. E. Lawrence was particularly fond” (Purcell, Bach, Beethoven). This Form of Service reproduces from a photograph Kennington’s bust of Lawrence, and the text prints the hymns and prayers used during the service. 36. Macdonald, Alex. Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum. The Testimony of an Independent Eye-Witness of the Heroic Efforts for their Rescue and Relief. London: John Murray, 1887. £475 First edition. 8vo. pp. 16, 359, 32 (pubs. cat.); 6 maps or plans inc. 2 folding; previous owner’s inscription and date to title-page, contemporary newspaper cuttings pasted to first 15pp. of pubs. cat., very good in the original cloth, gilt, somewhat discoloured to rear board. One of the more uncommon books relating to Gordon’s final days. The author was a war correspondent with the Nile Expedition under General Wolseley, and aimed to offer a “more complete account” than previously offered. The appendices reproduce letters by Gordon, and the previous owner of this book has added further ‘appendices’ in the form of contemporary newspaper cutting concerning “The Wolseley and Stephenson Plans”, the Battle of Abu Klea, Sir Charles Wilson’s report on the expedition, and a reproduction of the paper money issued by Gordon during the siege of Khartoum. 37. [Map. Abyssinia.] Abyssinia with Upper Nubia (Eastern Sudan). Engraved, Printed and Published by W. R. & A. K. Johnston, Limited, Edinburgh & London, 1905. £150 A coloured map, approx. 23 x 18”, sectionalised on linen and folding into original cloth with Stanford paper label, Stanford inkstamp to lower right margin of map, slightly soiled, else very good. Taken from Keith Johnston’s General Atlas, this map of Abyssinia was bound in pocket form by the London map seller Edward Stanford.

38 37 38. [Map. Central Africa.] Central Africa. London: E. Stanford, n.d. c. 1908. £150 A large coloured map, scale 1 inch to 100 miles, approx. 28 x 22”, sectionalised on linen and folding into original cloth boards with paper label (“London Atlas Map of Central Africa”), previous owner’s name (“J. G. Wilson, Durham, 1909”) to outer margin of paper label, in very good condition. The map shows the Congo Free State, flanked by Angola and East Africa (divided into two regions, the German and British spheres of influemce); Namibia appears in the lower left as a German Protectorate, and to the upper left the south east area of the British Niger Protectorate is shown.

39. Molyneux, Henry Howard, Fourth Earl of Carnarvon. Speeches on Canadian Affairs. Ed. Sir Robert Herbert. London: John Murray, 1902. £150

text), inkstamp of the Railway Clearing House Literary Society to titlepage, a little shaken in the original cloth, gilt, somewhat rubbed and soiled.

First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 386; folding map of Canada at end; very good in the original parchment-backed boards, gilt, slightly discoloured.

Montagu (1842-1901) worked as a war artist for the Illustrated London News. Two thirds of his memoir cover his experiences during the RussoTurkish War of 1877-8, the remainder his ‘Bohemian’ life in London. 42. Moyse-Bartlett, H. The King’s African Rifles. A Study in the Military History of East and Central Africa, 1890-1945. Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1956. £125

The Fourth Earl of Carnarvon (1831-1890) became Secretary of the Colonies in 1866, and by his introduction of the British North America Act the territories of Canada were effectively gathered together in a form of confederation. Carnarvon resigned shortly thereafter in protest at the Reform Bill, but returned to office as British Colonial Secretary in 1874. The present volume, edited by his cousin, contains 37 speeches relating to Canada, and includes ‘British Columbia: Government of New Caledonia Bill’, ‘The North-Western Territories’, ‘The Red River Settlement’, ‘Fenian Invasion of Canada’, ‘Canadian Pacific Railway’, and others. 40. Molyneux, Henry Howard, Fourth Earl of Carnarvon. Speeches on the Affairs of West Africa and South Africa. Printed for Private Circulation. London: John Murray, 1904. £225 First edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, [i, List of Maps], 591; one double-page and two folding maps at rear; very good and partly unopened in the original parchment-backed boards, gilt, in the original printed d.-w. Carnarvon attempted to apply the idea of confederation, used successfully in Canada, to the different territories in South Africa, but his scheme met with much resistance, resulting in territorial wars such as the Zulu War and the First Anglo-Boer war. Caranarvon’s speeches on these issues were collected in the present volume by his cousin, Robert G. W. Herbert, prefaced by six speeches on West Africa (Gold Coast and Gambia). Few copies of Carnarvon’s speeches were printed, and this copy unusually still has its rare original dust-wrapper. 41. Montagu, Irving. Camp and Studio. London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1890. £45 First edition. 8vo. pp. xviii, [i], 395, [4, ads.]; frontis. and 30 plates, illusts. to text; minor tear with loss to one leaf of contents (not affecting

First edition. 8vo. pp. xix, 727; illusts., 11 folding map; very good in the original cloth, d.-w. An authoritative account of the Regiment, from early campaigns in Somaliland and Ashanti, to the Second World War. 43. Northey, W. Brook & C. J. Morris. The Gurkhas. Their Manners, Customs and Country . . . With a Foreword by Brigadier-General the Hon. C.G. Bruce. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., [1928]. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. xl, 282 + [4, adverts]; photo. illusts., one folding map; near-fine in the original cloth, d.-w. Yakushi (3rd ed.) N156. Both authors served with the Gurkhas. Morris in addition took part in the 1922 and 1936 Everest expeditions, the former of which was led by Bruce. The present work offers a general description and history of Nepal and its peoples. 44. Ottley, W. J., Brevet-Major. With Mounted Infantry in Tibet. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1906. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. xiii, 275, [4, ads.]; port. frontis., photo. plates, one plan; good in the original cloth, gilt, soiled on spine and with indent to cloth on spine partly obscuring author’s name. This is an eye-witness account of the 1904 Younghusband expedition to Tibet. Ottley served with the 1st Mounted Infantry, specially formed for the expedition.

Czech African pp.125-6. Patterson, an engineer engaged on construction of the Uganda railway, tracked the man-eating lions that had plagued workers on the line. His captivating account of the episode, which first appeared in The Field, is prefaced by Frederick Selous’ admiring Foreword. 47. [Pollock Medal.] Memoir, extracted and compiled from various sources, to illustrate the Origin and Foundation of the Pollock Medal. Woolwich: Boddy and Co., 1875. £225 First edition. 8vo. pp. [i, title-page], 100, 101-2, 103 [MS leaf]; very good in original blue cloth, a.e.g., slightly rubbed to extrems. 45 45. [Parker Pasha.] H. V. F. Winstone, ed. The Diaries of Parker Pasha. War in the Desert 1914-1918 told from the secret diaries of Colonel Alfred Chevallier Parker, nephew of Lord Kitchener, Governor of Sinai, and military intelligence chief in the Arab Revolt. London etc.: Quartet Books, [1983]. £95 First edition. 8vo. pp. 220; illusts., sketch maps; very good in the original cloth, d.-w., slightly marked. Loosely inserted are a portrait of Parker in later life with his son, together with three cartes de visite of Parker aged 5yrs and 11 months, his sister Frances Mary aged 4 yrs and 4 months, and their mother Emily née Kitchener (Lord Kitchener’s sister). The original photographs that accompany this copy of the book include one of Parker’s sister Frances Mary, later to become known as a Suffragette. 46. Patterson, J. H. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures. London: Macmilland and Co., Limited, 1907. £25 Reprint in the same year as the first edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 338; photo. illusts., one sketch map; armorial bookplate of Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis, embrowning to endpapers, else VG in the original cloth, gilt.

The Pollock medal was named for George Pollock, notably for his service in the first Afghan War, when he commanded the force that relieved Sale at Jellalabad and advanced to secure Kabul and victory in the campaign. The medal was established by British residents in Calcutta, to reward the most distinguished cadet of the year, initially at Addiscombe, and latterly at Woolwich. The Memoir contains details of Pollock’s career and service, and pp. 98 onwards provide a list of recipients of the medal down to 1875; three printed leaves, and some manuscript entries, continue this list down to 1930. 48. Reeves, E. A., et al. Hints to Travellers. Eleventh Edition. Volume One: Survey and Field Astronomy [Volume Two: Organization and Equipment Scientific Observation Health, Sickness, and Injury] Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London, 1935 & 1938. £75 Eleventh edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. viii (ads.), viii, 448, x-xviii (ads.) & xv, 472, [vi], xvii (ads.); 5 maps or diagrams to vol. I, two folding star charts in rear pocket of vol. I, illusts.; very good in the original cloth, d.w.s, which have minor fraying and are darkened on spines. RGS receipt of purchase loosely contained in rear pocket. Issued under the aegis of the Royal Geographical Society from the 1860s onwards, Hints to Travellers was a form of vade mecum for explorers. The present set contains chapters on surveying, astronomy, clothing, preparation, photography, and much else.

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49. Selous, Frederick Courteney. Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa. London: Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, 1893. £50

Notices of the Naval, Military, and Commercial Resources of those Countries. London: John Murray, 1855. £350

Third edition (same year as 1st). 8vo. pp. xviii, 503, [4, ads.]; port. frontis., b&w illusts. inc. some full-page, one folding coloured map; very good in the original cloth, gilt, somewhat rubbed and soiled, a little faded on spine.

First edition. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 361; frontis., one plate of Antiquities, four plans inc. three folding; minor marginal age-toning, else very good in nineteenth century half calf gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down (slightly worn). A presentation copy, inscribed to front blank “With the author’s compliments”, and with four ALS from the author bound in at front, three addressed to Mary Ford, Mary Ford’s ownership inscription to frontispiece recto (dated 1855), her bookplate to front pastedown, and monogram in gilt to upper cover.

Mendelssohn South African Bibliography vol. IV, p. 189; Theales’ Catalogue of South African Books and Pamphlets p. 269; Czech African pp. 145-6. Selous lived in South-East Africa from 1882 to 1892, where he spent the first six years collecting specimens of fauna “which once abounded throughout the land, but many forms of which are day by day becoming scarcer, whilst some, alas! are already verging upon extinction” (from the Preface). Interspersed with his narrative are notes deriving from his own experience of the South African Boers and of the Bushmen, accounts of the two expeditions sent against the Batauwani by Lo Bengula, the massacre of the Matabili in Mashunaland, and other matters. The remaining part of the book deals with his journeys beyond the Zambesi to the countries of the Mashukulumbwi and Barotsi tribes, as well as with the past and present condition of Mashunaland. 50. Seymour, H. D. Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: being a Narrative of Travels in the Crimea and Bordering Provinces; with

Henry Danby Seymour spent nearly three years in the Caucasus, visiting the Crimea in 1844 and Southern Russia in 1844 and 1846. His experiences formed the basis for the present work, issued while Britain and her allies were at war with Russia in the Crimea; Seymour also draws on publications by other travellers to the region. This copy was signed by Seymour for Mary Ford, of Pencarrow, the autograph collector and wife of the traveller Richard Ford. Mary Ford had the book bound up with three letters sent to her by the author, and another letter from the author to the diplomat and traveller John Crawfurd. (Mary Ford’s prestigious collection of autographs was auctioned by Sotheby’s in December, 1999.)

51. Sherson, Erroll. Townshend of Chitral and Kut. London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1928]. £20 First edition. 8vo. pp. [xvi], 411; 8 plates; embrowning to endpapers, long quotation from Lawrence’s The Seven Pillars of Wisdom in ink to rear free endpaper verso, good in the original cloth, darkened on spine, which has a small snag at the head. An account of Townshend’s career in the Sudan, Chitral, South Africa, and at Kut in the First World War. 52. Slatin, Rudolf C. Fire and Sword in the Sudan. A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes. 1879-1895 … Translated by Major F. R. Wingate. London: Edward Arnold, 1897. £75 Fifth edition, a year after the first. Thick 8vo. pp. xviii, [i, List of Illustrations], 636; port. frontis., 21 b&w plates, one folding plan of Khartoum, one large folding map; minor foxing, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., small chip to cloth of lower joint. One of the best personal accounts of the Mahdist period in the Sudan. Slatin had been governor of Darfur when Gordon fell at Khartoum, and was taken captive by the Mahdists. He remained a prisoner for eleven years, but escaped from his captors at Omdurman, partly through the interventions of Major Reginald Wingate of the Egyptian Intelligence Department. The story of his three-week journey across the desert to Aswan in March 1895 is related in these pages, which also give much information on the Sudan under the Khalifa (the Mahdi’s successor). 53. Stanley, Henry Morton. Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874. £375 First edition. 8vo. pp. xiv 510, [2, ads.], 48 (pubs. cat.); 2 folding maps, 27 wood-engraved illustrations (some full page); inner hinges neatly repaired with tape, else very good copy in the original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed. Henry Morton Stanley was Special Correspondent to the New York Herald newspaper and reported on several conflicts; in the 1860s, he witnessed two successful British military campaigns in Africa, the battles for the towns of Coomassie and Magdala. The British soldiers not only

fought hard against the enemy, but also had to endure extremely harsh and gruelling climatic and geographical conditions. In particular, the fight for Coomassie took place in thick jungle and swampland; many of the troops who survived the battle were later to fall victim to malaria and other diseases. The victories were highly praised back in England and were widely thought to be some of the toughest battles of the period. 54. Stanley, Henry Morton. In Darkest Africa or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Limited, 1890. £575 First edition. 8vo. 2 vols.; pp. xv, 529 & xv, 472; 38 wood-eng. plates, numerous wood-engravings to text, 3 folding coloured maps and one single-page coloured geological section, some foxing, occasionally heavy, repairs to folds of maps, good in original decorated cloth, bumped to extremities, with, loosely inserted, a pencilled note signed by Stanley in response to a question regarding Jacob Wainwright, one of the “black bearers of the body of Livingstone to the court”. Stanley’s ambitious expedition to cross Africa from west to east in an attempt to rescue the beleaguered Governor of Equatoria, Emin Pasha, brought great acclaim to Stanley and his officers on their return to Britain. Stanley’s account of the expedition - In Darkest Africa - sold 150,000 copies, such was public interest in the endeavour. The signed note which accompanies this copy contains a request for information from John B. Marsh of The Standard newspaper: “What became of Jacob Wainwright, one of the Black bearers of the body of Livingstone to the court, who came to Southampton with the body, & who walked in the funeral & I think was a Pall Bearer in Westminster Abbey? John B. Marsh”. Stanley’s answer, written on the back of the notepaper, reads: “Wainwright kept store at Zanzibar as late as 1890. I have not heard about him for some time. Yours faithfully Henry M. Stanley”. The note has been dated, in a different hand, May 26/93. Stanley was in Zanzibar at the end of the Emin Pasha expedition.

55. [Stanley, Henry Morton.] ‘“H. M. Stanley arrived at Cape Town March 10th with the Emin Pacha Relief Expedition, and leaves this afternoon, timed to reach the Congo, on the 18th inst.” Birmingham Daily Post March 14, 1887.’ £200 A commemorative octagonal plate, approx. 28cm. in diameter, with a hand-coloured transfer printed scene to the front, incorporating portraits of Stanley and Emin, views of Lado and Kirri, a map of “Africa showing route from London”, wreathed by images of African vegetation and surmounting a river scene, gilt border, maker’s mark to verso; slight abrasion to gilt border, fine surface crack to upper left, small chip to one corner on reverse, else in good condition. Stanley’s expedition brought great acclaim to Stanley and his officers on their return to Britain in 1890. This commemorative plate was produced at the time of Stanley’s departure on his expedition. 56. [Stanley, Henry Morton.] An illuminated Diploma awarding Stanley the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen. 1890. £500 A large vellum sheet, approx. 38 x 47 cm., written in calligraphic hand with black ink by Taylor and Henderson of Aberdeen, capitals highlighted in gilt, blue or red ink, hand-coloured decoration to upper left, signature of William Gordon to foot of document, slight staining to lower right corner, medallion with an elaborately tooled crest of

Aberdeen secured by a ribbon to the lower left, medallion size approx. 4 cm. diameter; the whole laid down on board, slightly bowed, minor stain to lower right affecting two words, else in good condition. On his return from the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Stanley was welcomed with both private and civic celebration. In June, 1890, Stanley toured Scotland, and on his visit to Aberdeen the city’s Council granted him the Freedom of the City. The present Diploma, produced for the occasion, was the document presented to Stanley and kept by him as a record of the the award. 57. [Stanley, Henry Morton.] Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 18871889. c. 1890. £875 A Doulton Lambeth commemorative jug, approx. 8” high and 5” diameter (20 x 13cm), glazed in light and dark brown, front relief decorated with a portrait of Stanley within a wreath of leaves surmounting the motto ‘Out of Darkness into Light’, vignettes to either side with the words ‘Valour’ and ‘Enterprise’ respectively, each vignette surmounting the names of three officers who accompanied Stanley, numbered and stamped by manufacturer to base; in fine condition. This striking jug commemorates Stanley and certain of the officers who took part in the expedition: E. M. Barttelot, W. Bonny, A. J. MounteneyJephson, W. C. Stairs, R. H. Nelson and T. H. Parke.

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58. Steevens, G. W. From Capetown to Ladysmith. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. £45 First edition. 8vo. pp. ix, 180, 32 (booksellers’ catalogue); one sketch map, one folding map; VG in the original cloth, gilt, minor soiling to lower outer corner of upper board. Steevens covered the Boer War in 1899 as correspondent for the Daily Mail. 59. Sudan Government. Intelligence Department. 2. Kordofan and the Region to the West of the White Nile. London: Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Harrison and Sons, 1912. £395 First edition. 8vo. pp. 215; one folding map in pocket at rear; previous owner’s inscriptions of F. D. Kingdon and Guy Campbell, Camel Corps, El Obeid June ‘39, else very good in the original khaki-coloured cloth, minor wear to head and tail of spine. Published as the second volume in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan handbook series, this work was compiled in the Intelligence Department of the Sudan Government, Khartoum, based on reports by officers of the Egyptian Army and government officials. This copy was previously owned by Frank Denys Kingdon, of the Sudan Political Service, 19211948, and later by Guy Campbell, who commanded the 2nd and 7th Nuba Battalions of the Sudan Defence Force, who served in Abyssinia,

was wounded in 1941 and received the Military Cross. In common with similar intelligence works, the book is scarce, with only four copies listed by COPAC, and Worldcat adding 2 more. 60. Thomson, H. C. The Chitral Campaign. A Narrative of Events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour. London: William Heinemann, 1895. £50 First edition. 8vo. pp. xviii, 312, 4 (pubs. ads.); photo. illusts. inc. many full-page, four maps; a little soiling, good in the original cloth, bumped to top margin of upper board with crease to board and tear to head of upper joint, darkened on spine and to margins of boards. The author joined the force sent to relieve the fort at Chitral, and describes the events surrounding this episode. 61. Traill, H. D. Lord Cromer. A Biography. London: Bliss, Sands and Co., 1897. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. ix, 351; port. frontis., 16 plates; some spotting at front and rear, very good in the original red cloth, gilt. A biography of Evelyn Baring, First Earl of Cromer (1841-1917), which focusses on his period in Egypt, closing with the British reconquest of the Sudan under Kitchener. Chapters include discussion of Baring’s role in the final days of General Gordon.

62. W[igram], E. & H. Soldiers of the Cross in Zululand . . . With Preface by Frances Awdry. London: Bemrose & Sons Limited, 1905. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 192, [4, ads.]; 12 plates, one folding map; very good in the original red cloth, gilt, with two loosely inserted (?related) photographs. A history of the church mission in Zululand, with a chapter on the Zulu war and information about Cetshwayo and other chiefs. 63. Warburton, Robert. Eighteen Years in the Khyber 1879-1898. London: John Murray, 1900. £250 First edition. 8vo. pp. 18, 351; port. frontis., 16 plates from photos., one folding map; slight foxing, ownership inscription of W. de C. Malet to front pastedown and of L. ff. Gyles to title-page, very good in the original two-tone cloth, gilt, somewhat marked, creased on spine. The posthumously published memoir of Warburton, who established the Khyber Rifles. 64. Ward, Colonel John. With the “Die-Hards” in Siberia. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., [1920]. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 278; port. frontis., illusts. from photos.; browning to endpapers, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, in the original d.-w., which is slightly frayed with minor loss to lower margin of rear. An account, by its leader, of the 25th (Navvies) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment in the Russian Intervention, at the end of the First World War. Ward’s Battalion went to the assistance of Admiral Koltchak’s White Russians in 1918-19, the only British unit to do so. 65. Willcocks, Brigadier-General Sir James. From Kabul to Kumassi. London: John Murray, 1904. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 440; port. frontis., illusts., 6 maps inc 5 folding; some spotting, else very good in the original green cloth, gilt, t.e.g.

Czech African p. 174; Asian p. 227. During the course of his long military career, Willcocks saw action in Afghanistan (1879-80), India and Burma (1881-91), and in Ashanti, West Africa. While off-duty, he indulged his passion for hunting, and this autobiography offers details of both aspects of his life. 66. William Sheowring, et al. British Empire Series. A complete set of five volumes. London: Kegan Paul, 1900-1906. £300 Mixed editions (1st/2nd). 5 vols. 8vo. pp. xxvii, 558, xiii, 414, ix, 545, xx, 364 & xix 681, maps to each vol. as called for; blindstamp to each front endpaper of Hopwood & Co., Booksellers, Launceston [Tasmania], previous owner’s inscription to each vol. and bookplate to each of Jardine Matheson, good in the original cloth, gilt, sunned on spines. This set of volumes was issued over a series of years, based upon lectures given at the South Place Institute. The volumes comprise: vol. I India, Ceylon, Straits Settleements, British North Borneo, Hong-Kong; vol. II British Africa; vol. III British America (including the West Indies and the Falkland Islands); vol. IV Australasia; vol. V British Empire General (including Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, St. Helena). The set was originally sold in Tasmania, and the volumes have the bookplate of Jardine Matheson, the Hong Kong-based British company. 67. Wills, W. A. & L. T. Collingridge. The Downfall of Lobengula: the Cause, History, and Effect of the Matabeli War. London: “The African Review”; South Africa: The Argus Company, Ltd., n.d. [1894]. £150 First edition. Square 8vo. pp. x, 335, [6, ads.]; 5 plans of Lobengula including 4 folding,14 plates portraits, illusts. to text, errata slip to p.1; minor foxing, upper hinge cracked with old sellotape repair, else very good in the original pictorial cloth, rubbed. Mendelssohn II.617. “Although nominally a history of the Matabele War, the book is practically an account of that part of Africa now known as Rhodesia, from the times of Moselekatse to the death of Lobengula” (Mendelssohn). The book also includes chapters by other contributors, including Frederick Courtenay Selous (“Introductory Review of the War”) and H. Rider Haggard (“The Patterson Embassy to Lobengula”).

68. [Wollaston, A. F. R.] Letters and Diaries of A. F. R. Wollaston. Selected and edited by Mary Wollaston with a preface by Sir Henry Newbolt. Cambridge at the University Press, 1933. £95 First edition. 8vo. pp. xv + 261; 4 portraits; very good in the original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed and soiled. Ownership inscription of Brian Roberts to flyleaf. Neate W115; Yakushi W209; Salkeld & Boyle W15; not in Perret. Wollaston joined the 1921 Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition as medical officer. Chapter 8 of the present work prints extracts from his journal of the expedition. Other chapters offer material relating to Wollaston’s 1905 ascent of Ruwenzori, travels in Colombia, New Guinea and Lapland, and to the Great War. Wollaston died in 1930, murdered by one of his students. This copy of the book once belonged to Brian Roberts, a member of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934-7, himself an ornithologist. 69. [WWI.] A Short Historical Sketch of the 15th Battalion P.W.O. West Yorkshire Regiment. Printed and Published by Richard Jackson… Leeds, 1917. £175 First edition. Oblong 8vo. pp. [vi] + 175 (b & w illustrations from photos. with captions) + [2] + [6, Index]; very good in the original buff cloth, lettered to upper cover, slightly bumped and soiled. An uncommon record of the Prince of Wales’s Own, 15th Brigade, which was formed in September 1914. The images show officers and men during training in Britain, and from page 74 onward feature scenes of the Battalion in Egypt, where the Battalion was sent to defend the Suez Canal. Closing scenes show men on transport ships in the Mediterranean, and wounded with H.I.H. Grand Duchess George of Russia.

70. Younghusband, George J. & F. E. Younghusband. The Relief of Chitral. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. £75 Reprinted the same year as the first edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 183; b&w illusts., mainly from photographs, 3 maps including 2 folding; slight age-toning, else good in the original cloth, gilt, corners bumped, a little creased and darkened on spine. Yakushi Y19. An account of the Chitral campaign of 1895 by the two Times correspondents who accompanied the expedition.

adendum Enriquez. Major C. M. A Burmese Arcady. An account of a long and intimate sojourn amongst the mountain dwellers of the Burmese hinterland & of their engaging characteristics and customs, &c. &c. London: Seeley, Service & Co., Limited, 1923. £495 First edition. 8vo. pp. 282, [6, ads.]; photos. illusts., one folding map; very good in the original cloth, in the original dust-wrapper which is slightly darkened on spine. Colin Metcalfe Enriquez (1884-1969) joined the Indian Army in 1905, and served initially on the North West Frontier. During a year of leave he toured the world, and took a position with the Military Police in Burma, learning Burmese and marrying a Burmese woman, with whom he had two children. Both before and after his retirement from the Police he wrote a number of books, many on the subject of Burma, beginning with his A Burmese Enchantment (Calcutta, 1916). The present work, his first account of travels in Burma to be published in Britain, “is devoted chiefly to the Kachins, who . . . belong to the Tibeto-Burman Group . . . The Kachins are a hill-people, who now occupy the north-east frontier of Burma and the terrotory in Yünnan immediately adjacent” (p. 12). The book is uncommon in the original dust-wrapper.

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