With General French and the Cavalry in South Africa

Hard Cover, xix + 462pp, ex-library quarter leather rebind with red cloth boards, gilt titles on spine, new end papers, portrait frontis, profusely Illustrated with sepia photographs, many fold-out maps, The 8 Folded Sketches by French are not present, some fold out maps and photographs (one loose) are heavily creased but the majority fine, the tissue guard separating the frontis and title page is torn, library cards on fep and stamps on the first pages. "An account of French's cavalry operations excluding the campaign in Natal. Chapters relate to Colesberg operations; the relief of Kimberley; operations to the fall of Bloemfontein and Pretoria and the campaign in eastern Transvaal to November 1900. The narrative is preceded by an informative introduction relating events to the investment of Ladysmith. Among the appendices are observations on cavalry notes on reconnaissance, on transport and remounts in war".