Major General Sir Herbert (6 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine original steel engraving. ca. 1880 Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage.

3rd edition. 8vo. xvi + 627pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece and 1 portrait. Ex-library, with inkstamp to half title and library bookplates and markings to front f.e.p. and pastedown. Hinges cracked. Original brown cloth with gilt lettered spine, spine slightly rubbed. US$29.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback ,third edition, octavo, russet cloth lettered gilt to the spine, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, two tissue guarded portraits, xvi + 627pp.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait, circa 1880. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Two papers, cord bound in original wraps 21 x 32cm. iv + 21 + (1); (ii) + 12 + (1) containing 30 documents in English and French with translations. Very good, lightly tanned with a couple of small closed tears, hand numbered to the odd pages 863-903. These trace the Fashoda Incident from 10 Dec 1897 to 12 Oct 1898 through letters, speeches, and reports, among the remarkable exchanges between Kitchener and Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand. Marchand had led a small force overland to claim the area for France to undermine British control in Egypt and the Sudan, whilst Kitchener was in the process of defeating the Mahdi.…

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium. good condition. Text: "Herewith I return the Proofs, corrected to the best of my ability. The speech is wonderfully well reported I think. | I have not touched any speech but my own. | Lady Edwardes joins me in kind regards to Mrs. Phillips & yourself; & I assure you we look back with pleasure to our stay under yur roof. [.]" He is, perhaps, referring to his speech at the Church Missionary Society's Meeting in London, in May, 1860(?).…