664 Churchill (Winston S.). The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1899, half titles, seven photogravure portraits, 20 folding maps, maps and illustrations, a.e.g., recent dark blue full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers with gilt rules, portcullis device to each corner, lion rampant at top margin, ‘C’ cipher at lower margin, spines with cover devices repeated, 8vo Woods A2(Aa). A fine set. (2)
£1500-2000
665 Claridge (W. Walton). A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, from the earliest times to the commencement of the twentieth century, with an introduction by Sir Hugh Clifford, 2 vols., John Murray, 1915, seven maps, including two folding, t.e.g., orig. green cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some marks, thick 8vo, together with Reade (Winwood), The Story of the Ashanti Campaign, 1st ed., Smith, Edler, & Co., 1874, folding colour map, several b&w plts., orig. gilt-decorated green cloth, rubbed, Signet Library copy, with bookplate to front pastedown, 8vo (3)
£100-150
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666 Colquhoun (Major J.A.S.). With the Kurram Field Force, 1878-79, 1st ed., W. H. Allen, 1881, b&w lithographed plates, original publisher’s red cloth gilt, rubbed and some minor marks, together with Duke (Joshua), Recollections of the Kabul Campaign, 1879 & 1880, 1st ed., W. H. Allen & Co., 1883, mounted photographic portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, b&w lithographed maps and plans, etc., including some folding, bookplate of Philip Kamil to front pastedown, original red cloth gilt, rubbed and somewhat faded to spine, plus Dey (Kally Prosono), The Life and Career of Major Sir Louis Cavagnari C.S.I., K.C.B., British Envoy at Kabul, together with a brief outline of the Second Afghan War, Calcutta, J. N. Ghose & Co., 1881, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece, original cloth, rubbed and a little frayed to head and foot of spine and outer corners, author’s presentation copy, inscribed to recto of frontispiece ‘To T. Longmuir from the Author’ in pencil, and additionally inscribed with the recipients name in ink to head of title, plus four others related (Major Le Messurier, Kandahar in 1879; being the diary of Major Le Messurier, W. H. Allen & Co., 1880, author’s presentation copy, dated 1901, Richard Gillham-Thomsett, Kohat, Kuram, and Khost; or, Experiences and Adventures in the late Afghan War, Remington & Co., 1884, Archibald Forbes, The Afghan Wars, 1839-42 and 1878-80, 2nd ed., 1892 & Colonel W. V. Ellis, Kandahar Field Force, Afghanistan, 1878-80, key to the engraving, with names of officers, also short account of the occupation of Kandahar and advance to Kabul, together with official Despatches, Bristol, & A. Robinson, 1912), all bound in original cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo (6)
£200-300
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