The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan:

£1,000 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Scarce official survey of Sudan under the Anglo-Egyptian government, with only 1,500 copies of the first volume and 1,000 of the second produced. Compiled by Lord Albert Edward Wilfred Gleichen (1863-1937), who served in the Guards Camel Corps in the Sudan campaign in 1884–85, the Second Boer War in 1899–1900, and then as Sudan agent in Cairo from 1901 to 1903. The work covers geography, history, natural history, tribes and sheikhs, language, ethnology, archaeology, divided into regional sections. The second volume is devoted to routes and distances for practical use by officers. First edition; 2 vols., 4to (30.5 x 26 cm); double portrait frontispiece, copiously illustrated with photographs, 2 large folding colour maps, discreet blind stamps to early leaves, a couple small marginal tears to maps repaired; publisher's original green cloth, black lettering to upper boards and spines, all edges speckled red, a little rubbing and soiling, a very good set; xiii, 371; viii, 236 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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