The War in Egypt and the Soudan: An Episode in the History of the British Empire; Being a Descriptive Account of the Scenes and Events of that Great Drama, and Sketches of the Principal Actors in it
by ARCHER, THOMAS
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Blackie & Son 1887. TWO VOLUME SET (FOUR VOLUMES BOUND AS TWO), imperial octavo, half leather bound blue buckram boards, gilt lettering with raised bands & tooling to spines, red speckling to page edges, frontispieces, viii + 576-544pp, illus, folding maps, VG (moderate scuffing to extrems, heavy scufifng to spines with sl surface loss, moderate bruising & scuffing to board corners, light chafing & soiling to boards, light foxing to prelims & terminals, owner's name in ink to title pages, light creasing & closed tears to folding maps)
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- The War in Egypt and the Soudan: An Episode in the History of the British Empire; Being a Descriptive Account of the Scenes and Events of that Great Drama, and Sketches of the Principal Actors in it
- Author
- ARCHER, THOMAS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son 1887
- Keywords
- military history illustrated Egypt Soudan maps antiquity ancient British empire anthropology culture
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
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- Buckram
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- Octavo
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- VG
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