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BRADDON (Sir Edward, KCMG)
Thirty Years of Shikar.
1st Ed., x+373pp., frontis., 13 decorative initial letters & 13 tailpieces heading & tailing each chapter, fldg. map of "Oudh Forest Tracts & Nepal Terai." Blackwood.
1895
#55594
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Big game in Tibet & Oudh; also detailing the author's service during 30 years of mercantile life in India from Days of Griffinage & Among the Indigo Planters to The Santhal Rebellion, The Santhal Country in the Mutiny, Station Life in Oudh, &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt to sp. & titled in black to front, VG, nice copy. See illustration on our website.
£220
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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
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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
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WATERS (Major R.S., OBE)
History of the 5th Bn. (Pathans) 14th Punjab Regiment formerly 40th Pathans ("The Forty Thieves").
1st Ed., xv+398pp., 23 plates, 8 maps. Bain.
1936
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A fine & substantial volume covering the period 1780-1936 (inc. Tibet & NWF expeditions, 3rd Afghan War &c.) but especially detailed on the Great War: France & East Africa. Rolls of officers (inc. KiA, wounded) &c. "...longer & contains more basic research material than is usually found in IA histories of that period" - Perkins 478. Orig. green cloth, gilt, professionally rebacked with orig. sp. laid down, VG thus. (This copy provided with photocopy of extensive Addenda & Corrigenda notes previously unseen by me & evidently not known to Perkins.) See illustrations on our website.
£275
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