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Seller's Description:
Very Good. No Jacket. Xlvi + 351pp + 32pp publisher's catalogue. 39 illustrations, fold-out map, publisher's original maroon & gilt boards, with gilt vignette of Maasai warrior on front. Hinges weak, boards worn and marked at rear, else VG. Portal, a diplomat who served with distinction in Egypt and Abyssinia, was sent to Uganda in 1892 to report whether or not that part of Africa should be annexed by the British. He sent in his report and was struck down by fever before this work was published; his recommendation that Uganda be annexed was ultimately adopted.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Xlvi + 351pp + 32pp publisher's catalogue. frontispiece with tissue-guard, 39 illustrations, fold-out map, publisher's original maroon & gilt boards, with gilt vignette of Maasai warrior on front. Slight wear to spine ends, . unmarked internally, not ex-library, clean, tight, unfoxed. VG++. Portal, a diplomat who served with distinction in Egypt and Abyssinia, was sent to Uganda in 1892 to report whether or not that part of Africa should be annexed by the British. He sent in his report and was struck down by fever before this work was published; but his recommendation that Uganda be annexed was ultimately adopted. A good clean copy, privately owned previously, with a copperplate dedication dated 1901. on the front free end-paper. T34.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. No Jacket. Xlvi + 351pp + 32pp publisher's catalogue. frontispiece with tissue-guard, 39 illustrations, fold-out map, publisher's original maroon & gilt boards, with gilt vignette of Maasai warrior on front. Slight wear to spine ends and sunning to spine. Unmarked internally, not ex-library, clean, tight, unfoxed. VG++. Portal, a diplomat who served with distinction in Egypt and Abyssinia, was sent to Uganda in 1892 to report whether or not that part of Africa should be annexed by the British. He sent in his report and was struck down by fever before this work was published; his recommendation that Uganda be annexed was ultimately adopted.