Macgregor john surgeon major (2 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates, this is the very scarce first edition of Surgeon-Major John Macgregor's accounts of his travels in the 'Buffer States' between rival colonial powers. A very scarce first edition. In a dark blue cloth variant, with depiction of an elephant to the centre of the front board. No binding priority is recorded.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and ten plates. Collated, complete.Macgregor offers his observations after travelling in Borneo, Siam, and Cambodia, combining ethnographic and geographic observations, descriptions of local customs and landscapes, and reflections on political tensions.With a publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated January 1896.With a prize bookplate from Pearson's Weekly Magazine to the front pastedown.In a contemporary review, the Spectator commented that 'most of us would remember the description of the potentate, pensioned with a thousand dollars a day, who spends his time in the harem, smoking and drinking magnums of champagne'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with light rubbing to joints. Rear hinge strained, but firmly held. Cloth lightly age toned. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned but generally clean, with only the odd spot. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …

A Record of Recent Travels through Borneo, Siam, and Cambodia. Frontispiece and ten other plates, sketch plan - Angkor-Wat - to the text. Free endpapers quite heavily browned, the text lightly so, contemporary pencilled ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, some neat pencil notes to the rear endpapers, but overall a very good copy in the original burgundy diapered cloth, just a little rubbed, string-mark to the fore-edge of both boards. xviii, 290pp. F.V. White & Co., MacGregor saw active service in India, Arabia, Baluchistan and Burma. During the Third Burma War, 1885-7, he was Senior Medical Officer at Bhamo, and served on the Mongoung Expedition and with various flying columns including the retreat from Katraon and the picturesquely-named ambuscade of Thaphangain. He was awarded the medal with two clasps. His Who's Who entry records that he "has acted as Professor of Materia Medica in Bombay". He died in 1932. The present work describes travels undertaken on furlough through a region that had "begun suddenly to attract public attention" due to rising tension in the "Buffer State", as a result of French claims on the Mekong. Includes a trip to Angkor Wat which was just beginning to emerge from the jungle.…