Chaille Long Colonel (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Original four page supplement from a 1889 Harper's Weekly - SUPPLEMENT ONLY! Includes MAP OF THE NILE, engravings ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF CAIRO and GENERAL VIEW OF THE CITY drawn by Harry Fenn. Several small tears at right hand edge with light crease across the middle - crease on upper right border. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-1-Bottom-Up) rareviewbooks. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo hardcover volume in greenish tan cloth boards.Spine and boards complete with minor wear. Front board shaken with end paper split but not marked. 330 pages + 6 ad pages and a folding map. Map complete with one edge tear. Contents quite clean and tight. Many illustrations. 1st American edition.…

HARDCOVER. Later printing. 330pp, map, engraved illustrations, octavo hardbound. lean to binding, wear otherwise good.

Paris Plon 1888. In-18 VII 351pp. Demi chagrin brun marbré, dos à 4 nerfs orné d'un fleuron doré, initiales en queue, reliure postérieure. Orné de 12 illustrations dans le texte SANS LA CARTE. Exemplaire en bon état, complet de son texte et des illustration mais sans sa carte. (4423).

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R110019260: 1894. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Paginé de 336 à 346 . Ce fascicule ne contient pas d'illustrations. Une page photocopié. Livré sans couverture. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.4-Journalisme, chronique.

Troisième ed. - Map is missing. - Halfcloth.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. Plon & Cie, Paris 1877, 12x19cm, broché. vii-351pp. , carte in fine , orné de gravures sur bois , dernier feuillet fragile. Édition originale de la traduction française . officier américain, il servit dans l'armée égyptienne, explora l'Uganda et le bassin du Nil, puis devint avocat et fut consul général en Corée Sous le commandement de Charles Gordon, il voyagea au sud de l'actuel Ouganda, En 1874, il fut le premier à découvrir le Lac Kyoga. Il mena d'autres missions d'exploration en direction des Zandé en 1875, et du fleuve Jubba , en Somalie, en 1876. Il écrivit un livre sur ses aventures «Central Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People» . P2-3A.…

couverture souple. Plon & Cie | Paris 1877 | 12 x 19 cm | broché | Edition originale de la traduction française. Ouvrage orné de gravures sur bois, rousseurs éparses, la carte mentionnée est manquante, dos insolé. Rare. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition in French. Work illustrated with wood engravings, scattered foxing, the mentioned map is lacking, spine sunned. Rare. *.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. vol. I, 308, frontispiece portrait of the author, facsimile of a letter from General Gordon of Khartoum, 18 further illustrations and maps; vol, II, 308 - 616, 10 illustrations. Uniform blue cloth, gilt spine titles, prize binding for Alleynes Grammar School, Stone to front covers, prize awarded to N.W. Hemming in 1921. Cloth suntanned in places, edges slightly rubbed, marginal spotting in places-quite heavy in others, marginal notes in pencil and ink correcting place-names (some in Arabic), misconceptions, etc. Charles Chaillé-Long (1842-1917) American soldier, lawyer, explorer, diplomat, and author was commissioned by the United States Army and the Egyptian Army and explored Central Africa and Korea (Corea). He was the second westerner to visit Lake Victoria and given credit for possibly being the first American to visit Lake Kyoga (aka Lake Ibrahim). He joined General Gordon (of Khartoum) and Gordon's old friend from the Crimean War, Romolo Gessi, in the journey. In Khartoum Gordon proceeded up the White Nile to Gondokoro. Gordon was attempting to suppress the slave trade, a trade in which his superior, the Governor-General of the Sudan, Ismail Aiyub Pasha, was deeply involved. Gordon also clashed with Chaillé-Long, whom he accused of working as an informant for Aiyub Pasha and called him to his face a "regular failure". Chaillé-Long in return painted a very unflattering picture of Gordon in his 1884 book The Three Prophets, whom he portrayed as a bully, a raging alcoholic, an incompetent leader, and a rank coward.…