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1888218964London.: The Graphic. December 81888. Double page engraving 30.5 x 50.7cms image only; 40.5 x 59cms sheet including caption and full margins central fold browned from original glue residue but overall in good condition text on the verso. Vivid panorama published in "The Graphic" newspaper depicting conflict in the Black Mountain Expedition of October-November 1888 also known as the Hazara Expedition a military campaign by the British against Swati and Yousafzai tribes of Kala Dhaka and Battagram District then known as the Black Mountains of Hazara and northern areas around it in the Hazara region of what is now Pakistan. 400 tribal fighters and 2 British officers perished. The text on the verso whilst not specifically relating to this conflict records the British Viceroy Lord Lansdowne's address on a visit to Bengal: <br>".some intelligent well-meaning men were desirous of taking into the unknown by the application to India of democratic methods of government and the adoption of Parliamentary systems which England herself only reached by slow degrees through the discipline of many centuries of discipline." <br> <br>The engraving has full margins not shown. . The Graphic. unknown
189947161New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1899. 8vo. x 2 368 pp. Frontisp. photo numerous photo plates 5 maps 1 large folding. Dark-red cloth gilt illustration of fort on front cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. minor chipping at head & foot of spine minor shelfwear slight bumping to couple corners still a VG- copy. Second edition of this rousing first-hand account of the siege and relief of the fort at Chitral during the last phase of the Great Game as Britain and Russia struggled to maintain control over routes into India. During a particularly vicious succession fight Major Robertson brought a force of 400 British soldiers under command of Captain Townshend from Gilgit to oversee the transfer of power and took substantial losses and finally retreated to the castle where they endured a month-long siege from assorted factions. Colonel James Kelly arrived with 400 Sikh Pioneers 40 Kasmiri sappers with 2 mountain guns and 900 Hunza irregulars in April 1895 to raise the siege. Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover
1900010775Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent Government Printing India 1900. Book measures 26.5x19.cm. 441pp. Bound in original publishers blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth rubbed some abrasion wear on edges library bookplate on top board. Binding in good condition. Internally occasional library stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good copy. . Cloth. Good Plus. Small Quarto. Office of the Superintendent, Government Printing, India Hardcover
