Lot 21
Sudan
Collection of accounts of travel & soldiering in the Sudan, 19th & 20th century
Auction: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 1 to 30
Description
Williams, Josiah. Life in the Soudan: Adventures amongst the Tribes, and Travels in Egypt, in 1881 and 1882. London: Remington & Co., 1884. First edition, 8vo, publisher's original brown pictorial cloth (spine discoloured), frontispiece autotype portrait of the author, 6 plates;
Butler, W.F. The Campaign of the Cataracts: being a Personal Narrative of the Great Nile Expedition of 1884-5. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887. First edition, 8vo, publisher's original green pictorial cloth (spine and boards faded), frontispiece, 6 plates, 1 folding map, numerous illustrations;
Hill, George Birkbeck. Colonel Gordon in Central Africa 1874-9 … from Original Letters and Documents. London: Thos. De la Rue & Co., 1881. First edition, 8vo, original publisher's green cloth, frontispiece, two plates (1 folding with slight tear), 1 folding map, armorial bookplate of Lord Clermont;
Fothergill, Edward. Five Years in the Sudan. London: Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1910. First edition, 8vo, original publisher's burgundy cloth (slightly worn), 32 plates (including frontispiece);
Domville Fife, C.W. Savage Life in the Black Sudan. London: Seeley, Servie & Co. Limited, 1927. First edition, 8vo, original publisher's pictorial black cloth, gilt, 16 plates (including frontispiece), 2 folding maps,12 pp. publisher's catalogue at end;
Burleigh, Bennet. Khartoum Campaign 1898. London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1899. First edition, 8vo, original publisher's pictorial brown cloth, gilt, illustrations, maps, plans;
Neufeld, Charles. A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman. London: Chapman & Hall, 1899. First edition, 8vo, original publisher's green cloth, with red ‘wax’ seal to the upper board, 32 plates (including frontispiece, maps, plans), some plates loose;
Steevens, G.W. With Kitchener to Khartum. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1898. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, 8 maps and plans (some folding), 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at end;
and 15 others (23)
Provenance
Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman