Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger
by Vandeleur, Seymour
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Methuen, 1898. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. orig. cloth xxvii + 397pp., frontis., b/w pls., fldg. maps, appendix, index, MethuenÕs Colonial Library. Campaigning in Sudan, Uganda & Nigeria. Author was a Lieutenant of the Scots Guards, experienced in leading native troops; he was killed in a train ambush in the Boer War. Boards sunned at spine, still retaining titles, front hinge a little tender o/w nice, tight, square copy of a scarce title
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57607
- Title
- Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger
- Author
- Vandeleur, Seymour
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Size
- octavo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Imperial Wars;
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