[UGANDA] PORTAL, Gerald

The British Mission to Uganda in 1893

London: Edward Arnold, 1894. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt; dark blue coated endpapers; xlvi,351,[1],28,[4]pp; 32pp of publisher's ads at rear; 2 photogravures, folding color map, 16 halftone plates, numerous in-text halftones. Sound but with a slight forward roll, spine lightly faded, bumped and rubbed at edges and corners, both hinges cracking but holding, internally clean: around Very Good.

Portal was a key figure in replacing the control of the Imperial British East Africa Company with a British Protectorate in Uganda. He was directed to report on this viability of this scheme, and negotiated a treaty with the Kabaka of Buganda, Mwanga II, but died before the offical declaration of the protectorate in 1894.

Price: $200.00

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