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Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger
by Vandeleur, Seymour
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Chehalis, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxvii, 319 pp, illustrations, 4 maps (two folding). Introduction by George T. Goldie. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and vignette of soldiers on front board. Former mercantile library copy, with bookplate on front pastedown and a few stamps. No external library markings. Corners lightly bumped, some chipping/short tears to cloth at spine ends. One of the folding maps is quite delicate and has numerous tears (partially mended on the verso with archival tape), with some minor loss. Vandeleur, a highly decorated officer in the Scots Guards, participated in the Unyoro Expedition in 1895, the Niger Expedition in 1897, and served with the Egyptian Army in the Soudan expedition of 1898. He was awarded a grant from the Royal Geographical Society for his valuable work surveying more than 2000 miles of territory in East Africa and the Niger district. He was killed in 1901 when 250 Boers fired on his train.
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- Bookseller
- Walkabout Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11853
- Title
- Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger
- Author
- Vandeleur, Seymour
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Methuen & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa;
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About the Seller
Walkabout Books
Biblio member since 2011
Chehalis, Washington
About Walkabout Books
Walkabout Books is an antiquarian bookstore located in southwest Washington State. We specialize in Americana and the literature of travel and adventure, including travel narratives, travel and tourism ephemera (travel diaries, vintage brochures, guidebooks, etc), exploration, mountaineering, and other outdoor pursuits. We also carry interesting and unusual books in many other fields.
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- Vignette
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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