Somaliland.

HAMILTON ([John] Angus [Lushington Moore].)

Somaliland.

First edition. Portrait frontispiece and twenty-three other plates, part-coloured folding map at the rear. 8vo. Map worn at the folds, splitting in places, endpapers browned, some marginal browning, front hinges slightly tender, but overall a very good copy in the original plum cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, spine dulled. xvi, 366, 1ad.pp. London, Hutchinson and Co., 1911.

£200.00

Correspondent’s account of operations against the “Mad Mullah”. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, “With the good wishes of the author, Angus Hamilton, June 8th, 1911.”

Hamilton made a name for himself as the Times’ and Black and White’s man on the spot at the Siege of Mafeking, remarking at the time “There is lacking but one thing - war.” He was later present in China for the Boxer Rebellion, in the Balkans in 1903, Korea for the Russo-Japanese War, and in Assam - Abor, Miri, and Mishmi operations, 1911-12.

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