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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint Edition without Jacket on black cloth - collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Zustand: New. pp. 48.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. hardback, 8vo, 56pp, owner's name on endpaper of W. Purey Cust, and another on first text page, a label removal mark on flyleaf, slight foxing, pebbled cloth-covered boards, gilt ttiles, spine backstrip torn and covered with sellotape; Fair condition.

Reprint Linguistic and Oriental Essays, Series V. Wrapps pp16. G.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Original printed wraps 19x25cm. 16pp. Covers dusted, reinforced internally with archival tape to the hinges and edges, and externally to the spine with a little loss to spine ends and corners. Interiors very good, lightly tanned with some spotting, and inscription to final page. Suakin, a key trade and Hajj port on the Sudanese Red Sea coast, was at this time a strategic location in the Mahdist War. Dated 15 October 1887 to Moore's Introduction, this coincides with military operations in the region, with Suakin itself coming under Mahdist attack on 20 December. Watson (1844-1916) had served under Gordon in Sudan during 1874-5, and participated in the survey of the White Nile. He performed special intelligence duties in the Anglo-Egyptian War (1882), then appointed as Governor General of the Red Sea Littoral while much of Sudan was under Dervish control. He handed over to Kitchener in 1886, who was based at Suakin during 1886-8. Wilson compiled this work from R.N. Cust's vocabulary, with Khalifah Safwah and Khalifah Abdullah assisting on the Beni-Amer, and Idris Effendi on the Hadendoa, the latter a Madhi supporting nomadic sub-division of the Beja. The whole was revised by Marcopoli Bey. The vocabulary is presented in 7 columns (one for English, and 2 each for Arabic, Hadendowa and Beni-Amer in Latin and original scripts), and includes some short phrases. Scarce. (Ref. Dictionary of Irish Biography).

By Dr. R. N. Cust, Hon. Sec. Accompanied by a Language-Map and a Bibliography. From the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. XIX. Part 3. London: RAS, 1890 Wrpps, 8vo. 24pp. coloured map, biblio. Front cover dusty, a very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's yellow wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[O].

First Edition. Portrait frontispiece One of 450 numbered copies Corners a little rubbed, minor damage to upper blank margin of last six leaves, otherwise a very nice copy The author's only book. He was primarily a politician and journalist. On the recto of the limitation leaf is the following: "These Poems were printed in Jerusalem in time of War, and it was not possible to correct the proofs fully." A few errors have in this copy been corrected in manuscript. Original parchment-backed grey boards, spine lettered in black, uncut.