Lot 23
Sudan & Egypt
Official histories, handbooks, local imprints, late 19th 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
Colville, H. E. History of the Sudan Campaign. Compiled in the Intelligence Division of the War Office. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1889. First edition, one of 1,000 copies, 2 text volumes and map case, 8vo (21.5 x 13.4cm), xvi 277, xiv 327 pp., original red cloth, text volumes with 9 folding lithographic maps and plans in total, map case 10 large folding lithographic maps and plans loosely inserted (various dimensions, from approx. 40 x 40cm to 60 x 90cm, each with printed label to verso), printed paper label to case, traces of library labels to spines of text-volumes, case with partial splits along one side-panel, annotations and old shelfmark in white ink to front panel, maps toned and a with a few short splits to ends of folds;
Egyptian General Staff. Provinces of the Equator. Letters and Reports of His Excellency the Governor-General. Cairo: printing office of the General Staff, 1877. Presumed first edition, large 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, rebacked, 89 pp., half-title, 4 lithographic maps (one folding), double-page colour panorama, front pastedown with presentation plate from General Stone (i.e. Charles Pomeroy Stone, Egyptian chief of the general staff) to the Royal United Services Institution, their blind stamp to title-page, collation of this work not established;
[Mahdist War]. The Dongola News. An Occasional Journal for All Conditions of Men. Dongola, Sudan: printed and published for the proprietors by the R. E. Field Printing Press, 16th May 1885. 2 letterpress leaves (presumably original a bifolium, now separated), folio (34 x 20cm), paginated (4 pp.), printed in double column, imprint to foot of p. 4, browned and chipped with some loss of text;
Foreign Office. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. [Series-title at head:] Confidential - Handbooks prepared under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office. [London: HMSO], 1919. 8vo, original card wrappers, large folding map loose in end-pocket as issued;
and 10 others (16)
Provenance
Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Footnote
Colville's work is rarely found retaining the case of maps, as here.