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Publisher's red cloth binding with bevelled edges and gilt titles on front panel and spine. Top edge gilt.
xii + 506pp, frontispiece portrait of Colonel Lumsden, folding map, 41 plates, 37 other illustrations.
Cloth split on front hinge and some mild age-associated edge wear. Binding sound. Contents clean.
'Colonel Lumsden conceived the idea of "forming a corps of Indian volunteers," and, in December 1899, "cabled . . . to his friend Sir Patrick Playfair in Calcutta his proposal to raise a corps of European Mounted Infantry for service in South Africa, and backed it with an offer, not only to take the field himself, but to contribute a princely sum in aid of a fund for equipping any force the Government might sanction." The corps took part in Lord Roberts' march to Bloemfontein, the occupation of Johannesburg and Pretoria, the pursuit of De Wet, and the campaign in the Barberton and De Kaap districts.' - Mendelssohn Vol.II, page 147.
- Binding Condition: Fair
- Overall Condition: Fair to Good
- Size: Royal 8vo
- Name: Rare Paper
- Contact Person: Armandt Marais
- Country: South Africa
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