THE EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE

With illustrations and maps

First edition second impression. 318 pages, frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 5 plates, numerous black and white illustrations, bottom edge uncut, booksellers ticket on front paste-down endpaper, blue cloth titled gilt on upper cover and spine, a good copy.

Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot GCMGPC (8 January 1862 – 16 March 1931) was a British diplomat, colonial administrator and botanist. He served as Commissioner of British East Africa in 1900–1904. He was British Ambassador to Japan in 1919–1925. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eliot_(diplomat)