SLATIN PASHA, Colonel Sir R.

Fire and Sword in the Sudan. A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-95. Translated by Lieut.-Col. Sir F.R. Wingate...

London: Edward Arnold, 1898. "Popular edition". 8vo. xx, 416, 32 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, bookplate of an A.K. Chesterton to the front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscription of an Audrey Ryder to the half title, with below the mounted signature of the author, "Rudolph Slatin, Wadi Halfa [Northern Sudan] 24/II [1]898". Frontispiece and 21 plates plus a folding plan of Khartoum and a folding map at the rear. A very good copy. Originally published in 1896. Item #30455

Price: £250.00