[Item #60405] The Campaign in Tirah 1897-1898: An Account of the Expedition Against the Orakzais and Afridis under General Sir William Lockhart. HUTCHINSON, enry, oveton.

The Campaign in Tirah 1897-1898: An Account of the Expedition Against the Orakzais and Afridis under General Sir William Lockhart

London: Macmillan, 1898. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; dark blue coated endpapers; xvi,246,[6]pp; 2pp publisher's ads at rear; 7 maps, some folding, frontispiece, and 20 photographic halftone plates. Ex-library, with bookplate and 1899 ownership note of Castle Cary Constitutional Club Library. Bright and straight, with minor rubbing and wear to corners and spine ends, mild damage to front free endpaper from adherence to bookplate glue, occasional fingersoil, but generally a Very Good copy.

Eyewitness account of the 1890s British colonial military campaign concerning the Khyber Pass in what was then the frontier of British India and is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan.

Price: $250.00

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