VANDELEUR, Seymour.
Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger ... With an introduction by Sir George T. Goldie ... With maps, illustrations, and plans.
London, Methuen & Co., 1898.
8vo, pp. xxvii, [1], 319, [1], 40 (publisher’s catalogue); with 15 plates and 4 maps; some tears to folding maps (without loss); a very good copy in original pictorial blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt vignette to upper cover; upper cover slightly discoloured at head, light wear to extremities; armorial bookplate of Augustine Fitz Gerald.
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Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger ... With an introduction by Sir George T. Goldie ... With maps, illustrations, and plans.
First edition. Vandeleur (1869-1901) was born in County Clare to a prominent soldiering family. He served in the invasion of Nigeria, in Uganda during the establishment of the protectorate (Unyoro expedition, 1895), and later at Atbara and Omdurman in the Sudan Campaign. He died in South Africa when his train was ambushed by a group of Boers.
