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Zustand: Very Good. Berlin, Paul Hinneberg, 1908. 8vo. 770?799 pp. Sewn as issued. This volume contains two articles. Softcover / Paperback.

Text on both sides of the bottom half of an Autograph Letter Signed, 12 x 9cm, a sprawling hurried handwriting. Text; "[p.1] [.] due to the death of the [Princess?]. | The cattle plague is a serious business - I do not think we shall be able to do [p.2] bottom half only] about the [occupation?] of the Southern ports [Suez, Port Said?]. There need to be no hurry. The matter can [stand over?] for a while.".

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Two papers, cord bound in original wraps 21 x 32cm. iv + 21 + (1); (ii) + 12 + (1) containing 30 documents in English and French with translations. Very good, lightly tanned with a couple of small closed tears, hand numbered to the odd pages 863-903. These trace the Fashoda Incident from 10 Dec 1897 to 12 Oct 1898 through letters, speeches, and reports, among the remarkable exchanges between Kitchener and Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand. Marchand had led a small force overland to claim the area for France to undermine British control in Egypt and the Sudan, whilst Kitchener was in the process of defeating the Mahdi.