Gleichen Count Albert Edward Wilfred (4 results)

Scarce official survey of Sudan under the Anglo-Egyptian government, with only 1,500 copies of the first volume and 1,000 of the second produced. Compiled by Lord Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen (1863-1937), who served in the Guards Camel Corps in the Sudan campaign in 1884â"85, the Second Boer War in 1899â"1900, and then as Sudan agent in Cairo from 1901 to 1903. The work covers geography, history, natural history, tribes and sheikhs, language, ethnology, archaeology, divided into regional sections. The second volume is devoted to routes and distances for practical use by officers. First edition; 2 vols., 4to (30.5 x 26 cm); double portrait frontispiece, copiously illustrated with photographs, 2 large folding colour maps, discreet blind stamps to early leaves, a couple small marginal tears to maps repaired; publisher's original green cloth, black lettering to upper boards and spines, all edges speckled red, a little rubbing and soiling, a very good set; xiii, 371; viii, 236 pp. Provenance: Army and Navy Club (blind stamps).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. 8vo. Frontispiece photograph. 108 pp. + [1] page Camps. Illustrated with B & W photographs. Original gilt-stamped half-velum binding with printed paper over boards. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper: "To W. Nilsom [perhaps Nilson] & Eve | 'the ornamental (?) + useful | attache' | Vera Rattigan." On the preliminary page entitled "Dramatis Personae" she has boldly underlined her name. Vera Rattigan (Mrs. F. Rattigan) is pictured in the frontispiece photograph seated in front of her husband, W. F. Rattigan (First Secretary to Mission). The recipient of her inscription has written a full-page "biographical note on the author" on the rear free endpaper which reads in part: "Lord (Albert) Edward (Wilfred) Gleichen was born on Jan. 15th 1863. . . He joined the Grenadier Guards in 1881 and served with distinction in the army. . . The C. M. G. came to him in 1898 and C. B. in 1906, and presumably for his services [?] Mission to Fez, he received the K. C. V. O. in 1909. . . He wrote this entertaining account just after his return from Morocco and had it privately printed and gave it to his friends and companions. . . ." The boards have wear at the extremities and the endpapers are browned, else this is a tight, very good book; contents bright. Scarce and desirable. Signed by Author(s). …

8vo. xi, [1], 320 pp. Frontisp. preserving tissue guard, numerous illustrations, maps. Beige-coloured linen, gilt camel illustration on front cover, gilt lettering on spine (bumping & edgewear head & foot of spine, some chipping & fraying, bumping to corners, small tear on spine), still G- copy. Second edition of this adventurous account of the Camel Corps as part of the relief column under Sir Garnet Wolseley intending to relieve the siege at Khartoum where General Gordon was trapped. Even thought they defeated the Mahdi army at Abu Klea, the relief force was two days too late and the entire garrison had been massacred. …

Second Edition. Frontispiece and numerous sketches and plans to the text. Some sporadic light foxing, otherwise very good in recent black half morocco. xii, 320pp. Chapman & Hall, .