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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Anglo-Boer War

THE COSSACK POST: Journal of B Squadron, Paget's Horse, De La Rey's Farm, Lichtenberg, Transvaal (1901)

Published: Junior Army and Navy Stores, London, 1901

Edition: First Edition

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Publisher's navy blue cloth hardcover with Paget's Horse monogram in gilt on front panel and titles in gilt on spine.

189pp. Illustrated and comprising 11 weekly journals composed by men of the squadron, from Wednesday February 27, 1901 to Wednesday June 5, 1901.

Slight wear to extremities, short cloth split at top of spine crown. Frontispiece group portrait photograph of B Squadron and Gun Section, Paget's Horse, at De La Rey's Farm. Intact frontispiece tissue guard.

'The Cossack Post, of which eleven numbers were issued, was originally written in a ledger, by members of Paget's Horse; it was a humorous journal, with a few illustrations, with the object of making up for the lack of general literature in the veld.' - Mendelssohn Vol.I, page 385

  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Sold By: Rare Paper
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