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’83 TO ’87 IN THE SOUDAN. With an account of Sir William Hewett’s mission to King John of Abyssinia. With map.
London: Remington & Co. Publishers, 1888. Two volumes. Original cloth gilt. Large octavo. First edition. Lacks folding map; spines a little faded, and one has a small abrasion; bookplates of the Royal United Service Institution to both front pastedowns, and their disposal stamp, also their blind stamp to the title-pages; else a very good, clean set.
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A PRISONER OF THE KHALEEFA. Twelve Years’ Captivity at Omdurman. With numerous portraits and plans.
London: Chapman and Hall., Ltd, 1899. 365 pages. Illustrated with 29 plates and two plans and a map. Original green decorative cloth with red seal to front panel. Octavo. First edition. Binding a little rubbed and worn, but a good copy.
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BACK TO MANDALAY.
London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1952. 255 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. Original red cloth, gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Touch of creasing to a very small area of the top edge of the lower panel of the wrapper; else a fine copy in unclipped dust-wrapper.
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DERVISH. The Rise and Fall of an African Empire.
London: Macdonald, 1973. 235 pages. Illustrated. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy.
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FIRE AND SWORD IN THE SUDAN. A personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes. 1879 --1895. By Rudolf C. Slatin Pasha, C.B. Translated by Major F. R. Wingate, C.B., D.S.O., R.A. Illustrated by Talbot Kelly, R.B.A.
London: Edward Arnold, 1896. 636, 32 ad’s pages. Illustrated. Two folding maps at end. Original cloth gilt. Large octavo. First edition; first issue. The binding is not in good shape: the spine is faded and taped at the head; the front endpapers have been replaced; the half-title is soiled. Internally the text is clean, but one of the folding maps has staining to the lower edges and is splitting at folds. A good working copy/a candidate for re-binding.
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LETTRE D’UN DÉSERTEUR au Comte de Bourmont, Minister de la Guerre. Prix: 75 cent.
Paris: Au Palais-Royal., Chex Les Marchand’s de Nouveautes, No date. A pamphlet disboud from a collection. Original wrappers. 204 x 128 mm. Some wear to lower outer corners; evidence of being disbound to spine; else a very good copy.
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MAHDIISM AND THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN. Being an account of the rise and progress of Mahdiism, and of subsequent events in the Sudan to the present time. With 9 full-page maps and numerous plans.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1891. xxviii, 617, [2 ad’s] pages. Original red cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Small closed tear in title; binding rather faded and a little damped; else very good.
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SEVEN YEARS IN THE SOUDAN. Being a record of Explorations, Adventures, and Campaigns against the Arab Slave Hunters. By Romolo Gessi Pasha. Collected and Edited by his son Felix Gessi. Illustrated.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Cpmpany, 1892. xxiv, 467 pages. Illustrated throughout; folding coloured map at end. Original red cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Prize inscription on endpaper; else a very good copy.
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STORY OF THE SOUDAN WAR. From the Rise of the Revolt July, 1881, to the Fall of Khartoum and Death of Gordon, Jan., 1885.
London: Remington & Co, 1885. xii, 276 pages. Original cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Generally a little worn; some marking; inscription on endpaper; else very good.
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SUDAN CAMPAIGN 1896-1899. By 'An Officer.' With Illustrations, Maps, Plans, Etc.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1899. viii, [4], 261, [1], [2 ad's] pages. Illustrated throughout, and with 14 maps, the majority folding. Original burgundy-coloured cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Front free endpaper pasted to the front fixed endpaper to cover a bookplate; else a very nice copy.
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TEN YEARS’ CAPTIVITY IN THE MAHDI’S CAMP 1882-1892. From the original manuscripts of Father Joseph Ohrwalder late priest of the Austrian station at Delen, in Kordofa. With maps and illustrations by Walter C. Horsley. Fourth edition.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892. xiii, [3], 460 pages. Illustrated throughout and with three folding maps at end. Original pictorial cloth. Octavo. Binding rubbed and a little marked; else very good.
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TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA and the return with Emin Pasha. Translated from the original Italian manuscript by The Hon. Mrs. J. Randolph Clay assisted by Mr. L. Walter Savage Landor. With upwards of one hundred and fifty illustrations, coloured plates, and four maps. In Two Volumes.
Londonand New York: Frederick Warne and Co, 1891. Vol, I: xxi, [1], 376 pages. Three maps in pocket on rear board. Vol. II: xv, [1], 347 pages. Map in pocket on rear board. Original pictorial brown cloth with gilding in silver and gold. Octavo. First edition Some spotting at start and end in both volumes; else an excellent, bright set.
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THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO ABYSSINIA compiled from authentic documents.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1869. xi, 271, [272], 53 ad’s, [2 ad’s] pages. Original cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Binding worn and rubbed; spine repaired at some time; evidence of the removal of a label from the front board; inner joints cracked, but firm; else a very good clean copy
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THE BRITISH MILITARY LIBRARY: comprehending a complete body of military knowledge, and consisting of original communications; with selections from the most approved and respectable foreign military publications. A new edition, improved and corrected. In two volumes.
London: Richard Phillips, 1804. [4], 492; 604, [7 Index] pages. Illustrated with twenty-eight hand-coloured plates [ of 29], 30 maps and plans [some folding], and 5 other engravings. Bound in recent half calf over marbled boards, with gilt banding and titling to the spine. 270 x 232 mm. Lacking some plans; lacks title-page to volume II, lacks the music plate sometimes present; one coloured plate is smudged; one has a small corner torn from blank margin; some creasing, soiling and marking; but a reasonable copy, sensibly priced.
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THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN Its Loss and Recovery. Including I. – A rapid sketch of the history of the Soudan. II. – A narrative of the Dongola Expedition, 1896. III. - A full account of the Nile Expedition, 1897–8. With numerous portraits, illustrations and maps. And records of the Services of the Officers (1896-8), etc.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898. xiv, [2], 336 pages. Illustrated with 12 maps, many folding, and 22 plates. Original red decorative cloth. Octavo. First edition. Spine a little faded; rear end-paper spotted and some occasional minor foxing; bookplates on end-paper; else very good.
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THE FROGMEN. The Story of the Wartime Underwater Operators.
London: Eavns Brothers Limited, 1950. 191 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Dust-wrapper price-clipped, else a fine copy in a like wrapper.
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THE GERMAN AIRFORCE.
London: Duckworth, 1946. 284 pages. Illustrated with many black & white plates and a folding map. Original black cloth gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Short tear in front panel of wrapper with a small area of loss; else a fine copy.
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THE HISTORY OF THE FIFTIETH DIVISION 1914-1919. With 13 illustrations and 9 maps.
London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd, 1939. xi, 376 pages. Original decorative blue cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. An excellent copy.
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THE MAHDI OF ALLAH. The story of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed. With an Introduction by The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill.
London: Putnam, 1931. xiv, [2], 318 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth,gilt. Octavo. First edition. Some spotting, notably to fore-edges; else very good. The book retains the tipped-in disclaimer slip from the publishers. Presentation copy from Reginald Wingate, inscribed on endpaper, ‘H. A. Van de Linde with best wishes from [Major] Reginald Wingate Christmas 1933.’
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THE PLYMOUTH PORTFOLIO. Eighteen Drawings of Naval and Military Life by Hanslip Fletcher.
Cheltenham: W. H. Beynon & Co, No date [circa 1906]. Title, list of plates, and 18 monochrome plates, each signed in pencil by Hanslip Fletcher. Original art-vellum backed pictorial buckram. Oblong: 285 x394 mm. First edition. Vellum rather spotted and boards lightly soiled; else a fine, clean copy of a very scarce title.
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