With the Mission to Menelik, 1897.

GLEICHEN (Capt. [Alfred Edward Wilfred], Count)

With the Mission to Menelik, 1897.

INSCRIBED BY COUNT GLEICHEN.

First edition. Photogravure frontispiece and fifteen other plates and full-page illustrations, numerous illustrations to the text, both half-tones from photographs and line-drawn after sketches by the author, one folding map coloured in outline, and a folding plan. 8vo. Frontispiece a little loose, some light marginal browning, otherwise very good in the original royal blue cloth, gilt, slightly spotted, spine thumbed head and tail. xii, 364pp. London, Edward Arnold, 1898.

£350.00

In the aftermath of the Italian’s defeat at Adowa the European Powers rushed to establish advantageous treaty arrangements with the newly confident Ethiopians. Having been on Special Service in Sudan, Gleichen was attached to Rennell Rodd’s mission to the Emperor.

This copy inscribed, “To Lady Naylor Leyland, with the author’s warmest compliments.” Lady Naylor-Leyland was the wife of Capt. Sir Herbert Scarisbricke Naylor-Leyland of the 2nd Life Guards, Conservative MP for Colchester, 1892-5, and a Liberal and Home Ruler from 1895, being MP for the Southport Division from 1898 until his death the following year.

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