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Extracted from Celebrities of the Army, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson, R.N., and published in fortnightly sixpenny parts, in London, by George Newnes, circa 1900. The page measures 37 x 27.5 cm, and the image area (not including the caption), measures about 25 x 19 cm. A brief career and character sketch of the subject appears on the reverse of the portrait. One leaf only, folio.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The Popular Edition. xvi+412pp. Includes 21*illustrations and two folding maps. Brown cloth boards, rubbing to edges of spine with a little fraying to head and tail of spine. 1cm cut to upper rear edge of spine. Indentation to mid leading edge of front board. Corners bumped. Foxing to glassine protective cover of frontispiece.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in publisher's red cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and with gilt creast to upper cover housed in a Very Good Dust-Jacket which has a few small tape repairs on the underside of the dust-wrapper.Not clipped to the inner flap.This copy has no previous ownership inscriptions present but has been SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Major Reginald Wingate on the Front Endpaper and reads. '' To Miss C Mauderson with all good wishes from Sir Reginald Wingate July 1938 '' .The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and the dust-wrapper comes well protected in a cover sleeve.Complete with a Reginald Wingate, 8vo (239 x 153mm.) Portrait frontispiece of Kitchener and with many photographic plates plus plans and maps that number 33 and then there are 2 large folding maps of Egypt and the Sudan at the rear of the book.Please also note that Wingate was was a British General and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan.During his long and distinguished career he was awarded many honours including the GBE and the GVCO. He was a cousin to Orde Wingate to referred to him as 'Cousin Rex'.Reginald Wingate served in India and the Sudan becoming director of military intelligence in Sudan in 1892.Large 8vo [xxxii] 571pp First Edition 1937.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Col. A. W. S. Wingate (illustrator). First edition. The uncommon first edition of this autobiographical account of a journey through the interior of China, in the very scarce dust wrapper. First edition of A Cavalier in China by A. W. S. Wingate in the original publisher's cloth binding and very scarce unclipped dust wrapper.With a foreword by Sir Francis Younghusband.Wingate's autobiographical account of his journey through the interior of China, compiled and edited by his widow after his death.Illustrated with fifteen monochrome plates from photographs taken by the author. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. There is some wear and slight loss to the extremities of the dust wrapper, including some tears. To the binding, there is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

pp. 327, (i). Frontispiece, 14 plates. No dust wrapper, covers slightly faded and marked, but a good copy.