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Chitral   8 Books
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BEYNON (Lt. W.G.L., DSO, 1st/3rd Goorkha Rifs.) With Kelly to Chitral. 1st Ed., 160pp., 8 plates, fldg. map. Edward Arnold. 1896  #61299
[HLMainPic] Staff officer to Col. Kelly's Chitral Relief Force, 1895. Most plates are from sketches by the author. Orig. red cloth, gilt, sp. a little sunned o/w VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £125
BLOOD (Gen. Sir Bindon, GCB, GCVO) Four Score Years & Ten: Reminiscences. 1st Ed., xii+356pp., 8 plates, 4 maps. Bell. 1933  #68498
[HLMainPic] Commissioned in Royal Engineers 1860. Extensive active service in India from 1871 inc. Jowaki; Zulu War 1879; Afghan 1880; Egypt 1882; Chitral; commanded Malakand Relief Force, Buner Field Force &c., commanded a Division in South Africa 1901-02. Acclaimed memoirs of active service, life in India, shikar, &c. Orig. black cloth, gilt, recased with orig. sp. laid down, VG thus, & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £45
DAVIES (C. Collin, PhD.) The Problem of the North-West Frontier 1890-1908, With a Survey of Policy since 1849. 2nd Ed, revised & enlarged, xviii+220pp., 3 fldg. maps. London: Curzon Press & NY: Barnes & Noble. 1975  #66875
[HLMainPic] Power-play on the NWF at a crucial period. Standard study, based on official documents & sources, originally published in 1932 by Cambridge Univ. Press & this edition revised up to Partition in 1947. Orig. yellow cloth, gilt, VG in dw. See illustration on our website.   £45
DEVELIN (Sgt.-Major, RE) Views in Chitral Taken during the Advance of the 3rd Brigade of the Chitral Relief Force under the Command of Brigadier-General W.F. Gatacre, D.S.O., by Sergeant-Major Develin, R.E., 1895. 1st Ed., [iv]+18pp. letterpress followed by 127 fine full page photogravure plates (including four fldg. panoramas), oblong 4to. Maclure & Co. Contemp.  #67128
[HLMainPic] The story of the 1895 campaign for the Relief of Chitral in letterpress, reproducing Despatches of Gen. Low (commanding Chitral Relief Force), Capt. Townshend & Col Kelly (32nd Pioneers, commanding Gilgit Force), including Orders of Battle, statements of casualties & recommendations for awards, followed by the 127 finely produced plates from photos. taken by Sgt.-Major Develin, RE, Bombay Sappers & Miners, who accompanied the 3rd Brigade as Photographer. These exceptionally fine plates include views of all the geographical features traversed by the 3rd Brigade, including the Malakand Pass, Swat Valley, Lowari Pass, Ashreth Valley, Chitral River, Valley & Fort &c. (many showing troops on the march &c.), also regimental & staff groups, encampments, bridges, graves & other subjects. A very fine & rare compilation. Orig. red cloth, blindstamped boards, gilt title to front, 2-inch split to sp., one small blemish to front, minor rubbing & sl. fading to cloth, but a very nice copy & very rare with ink inscrip. to tp: "H.S. Davey from W.G. 26.9.96" (the recipient was Captain, later Lt.-Col., CMG, Hon. Horace Scott Davey of the 18th Hussars & the giver presumably General Gatacre.) See illustrations on our website.   £1650
MAJUMDAR (Lt.-Col. B.N.) History of the Army Service Corps. Volume II: 1858-1913. 1st Ed., xii+406pp. VG in chipped dw. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers. 1976  #68381
[HLMainPic] Volume II of the major five volume history of the Indian Army Service Corps from inception to 1962. This volume (vide Perkins, p. 519) "describes the role of military transport in the campaigns of Umbeyla (1863), Bhutan (1864), Abyssinia (1867-1868), Second Afghan War (1878-1880), Third Burmese War (1885), Sikkim (1888-1890), the Frontier Risings (1888-1898), Manipur (1891), Chitral (1895), Tibet (1904)& the Abor Expedition (1911-1912)." Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG in chipped dw. See illustration on our website.   £145
NORTH (Roger) The Punjab Frontier Force: A Brief Record of Their Services. 1846-1924. 1st Ed., xi+95pp., fldg. map in end-pocket. HQ Waziristan District, Dera Ismail Khan, Commercial Steam Press. 1934  #67591
[HLMainPic] An account of all the regiments that made up the PFF with a statement of their lineage, war services & medal entitlements up to & including several post-WW1 campaigns; useful concise reference that includes the Guides, the Sikh & Punjab Regiments, 5th Gurkha Rifles (F.F.), Mountain Artillery &c. Perkins 514. Orig. cloth, gilt, boards little stained o/w VG & very scarce. See illustration on our website.   £225
PARRETT (Cliff) & CHHINA (Rana, MBE) Indian Order of Merit: Historical Records 1837-1947. Volume II: Military Division, 1860-1911 [Together with:] Civil Division 1902-1947. 1st Ed., 2 Vols. presented together in slipcase, 856pp., 20 col. & 30 b/w plates & 110pp., 3 col. & 6 b/w plates. dws & slipcase. Tom Donovan. 2018  #59265
Vol. II contains full details of awards made between 1860-1911, with full campaign details, including Operations on the North-West Frontier & Afghanistan; Expeditions in Burma & the North-East Frontier of India; Police Actions against Slavers in East & Central Africa; operations in China, Somaliland, Sudan & Tibet. Vol. III, The Civil Division, is a complete record of all 55 such awards, mainly for saving life & property, but also keeping the peace & dealing with one or other kind of armed fanatic or badmash in India & on or around her frontiers. Two volumes presented together in jackets with slipcase to match Vol. I.   £175
SHEARER (Lt.-Col. J.E., MC) A History of the 1st Bn. 15th Punjab Regiment 1857-1937, compiled from the Battalion's Digest of Services & other Official Documents. 1st Ed., xi+100pp., 18 plates (num. portraits, groups & campaign scenes). Aldershot: G&P. 1937  #68010
[HLMainPic] Includes the Mutiny; 2nd Afghan War; Chitral; Tochi & Mohmand campaigns, Mesopotamia in 1918 then Army of the Black Sea 1919-21 & several post-war NWF campaigns. Services of British officers & lists of awards for each campaign. Perkins 480. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £225

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