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Description/Condition: Hardcover, Very Good +, no dj, Fourth edition, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 2 volumes, Three-Quarter Red Morroco leather over marbled boards with 5 raised bands, impressed gilt lettering and design on spine, marbled endpapers and page edges, Two volumes. With portraits and maps. Vol. 1, 511 pages, Vol. 2, index & 522 pages, foldout maps, Vol. 2 has a water stain on frontis and front fly pages title page and rest of book clean, some very light bumping and some wear to leather at corners, some wear and rubbing on spine edges, A vivid account of Robert’s military career from his involvement in the Mutiny within months of his arrival in India, to the second Afghan War of 1879-80, where he commanded the British forces in the defeat of the Afghan army at Kandahar, overall this is an excellent 2 volume set. - Three-Quarter Leathe: pages
- Publisher: Richard Bentley and Son, (1897)
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