colonel keith young (1 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A scarce first edition work looking at the history of the Scinde province, extracted from the journals and letters of Colonel Keith Young. The first edition of this scarce work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one colour folding map, and three plates.Collated, complete.An account of India in the 1840s, written by Colonel Keith Young in his letters and journals.Young was hailed as a glorious soldier with a fiery and noble personality, who conquered and ruled Scinde.Scinde was a province which is now part of Bombay.Young was a high-ranking British official, and Judge-Advocate General of the Indian Army.Edited by Arthur F. Scott. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart, with some light marks and rubbing to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, with loss to the head of the front board. Spine is lightly faded. Front hinge is starting but firm. Prior owner's pencil inscription to the front paste down, pencil notes to the verso of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Frontispiece is detached but present. Very Good. book.