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[Campaigns in Egypt & The Sudan 1882-1887] The Royal Engineer Journal. 1882-1888. Twenty-two issues: 1/3/82; 1/4/82; 1/5/82; 1/6/82; 1/7/82; 1/9/82; 2/10/82; 1/11/82; 1/1/83; 1/3/83; 2/4/83; 1/11/83; 1/4/84; 1/5/84; 1/1/85; 2/2/85; 1/4/85; 1/8/85; 1/9/85; 1/10/85; 1/4/86; 1/5/86; 1/6/86 & 1/10/88. Around 400pp. in all, with around 20 maps & sketches. Brompton: Woolley & Son. Contemp.  #62922
[HLMainPic] The RE Journal was a monthly publication which commenced in 1870 & ceased in 1904 (when a New Series was started). Until the 1904 it was a "private newspaper" & became the official Corps organ only with the New Series. Alongside, until 1905, the Corps published its own Professional Papers, which in that year became incorporated in the new RE Journal. The original organ contained reports on active operations during the period of the issues, rolls & postings of officers, obituaries, reports from various posts, extracts from both the British & Indian Gazettes, &c. Many contained excellent loosely inserted maps/plans/sketches relating to the content of the issue. The sequence here offered (twenty-two issues, 1882-1888) contains much material on campaigns in Egypt & the Sudan inc. Official Despatches re Bombardment of Alexandria; Kassassin 1882; Tel-el-Kebir (much on this inc. despatches, General Order & Order of March, &c.); Occupation of Suez Canal; Diary of Works Performed by 8th Coy. RE in Egypt; Work of Detachment of Queen's Own Sappers & Miners in Egypt; El Teb with the Suakin Field Force; Work done by RE with Suakin Field Force; Diary of an Officer with the Karthoum Expedition; 17th Fd. Coy. RE at Suakim; Suakin 1885 Field Operations; Water Supply at Suakin; Nile Campaign 1888 & more concerning RE operation, with excellent maps & sketches including First Position at Kafr Dowar; Formation for Attack, Tel-el-Kebir; Arabi Pasha's Order of Battle at Kassassin; Section of Lines at Tel-el-Kebir; diagram of lines at Tel-el-Kebir; sketches of Sand-Bag redoubt near Suakim; diagrams of Forts at Suakin &c. Contents also include other events during the period of these issues, in India, Bechuanaland, &c. These issues loose, rather worn, but excellent source material on Egypt & Sudan campaigns with useful maps & sketches. See illustrations on our website.   £300
ANGLESEY (Marquess of) A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919. Vol. III: 1872-1898. 1st Ed., 478pp., 61 illus., 18 maps. VG in dw. Cooper. 1982  #64386
[HLMainPic] The now standard history of British Cavalry, this vol. includes Zulu & Transvaal Wars, 2nd Afghan Wars, Egypt & the Sudan, &c. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.   £35
BROWN (Brig.-Gen. W. Baker) History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Vol. IV. 1st Ed., xvii+434pp., frontis., 7 maps. VG in dw. Chatham: RE. 1952  #62637
[HLMainPic] This vol. contains smaller campaigns in Africa 1885-1914 inc. Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Uganda & Somaliland. VG in chipped dw. See illustration on our website.   £25
BURLEIGH (Bennet) Sirdar & Khalifa: Or the Reconquest of the Sudan 1898. 3rd Ed., xiv+305pp., portrait frontis., 26 photos., 3 maps (one fldg.). Chapman & Hall. 1898  #62147
[HLMainPic] Based on author's despatches to the Daily Telegraph & his day-to-day diary. Standard history to the eve of Omdurman, with Kitchener's official despatches appended, + roll of all ranks killed & wounded at Battle of Atbara, 8/4/1898. Orig. white cloth, gilt dec. to front, sp. tanned & cloth marked, but VG. See illustration on our website.   £75
CALLWELL (Maj.-Gen. Sir C.) & HEADLAM (Maj.-Gen. Sir J.) The History of the Royal Artillery from the Indian Mutiny to the Great War. 1st Ed., 3 Vols., in all some 1600pp., 6 portraits, 23 fldg. maps in separate mapcase, several fldg. tables &c. Woolwich: RA. 1931-1940.  #64377
[HLMainPic] Standard & detailed history. Vol. I, Armaments; Vol. II, Policy & Influence; Vol. III, Campaigns (1860-1914 inc. all corners of Empire, much on NWF, 2nd Afghan War, Egypt & Sudan, China 1860 & 1900, East & West Africa, Boer War &c.). Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little speckled o/w VG throughout & distinctly uncommon, especially with 3rd volume & mapcase present. See illustration on our website.   £225
HOLLINGS (Mary Alnright) Ed. The Life of Sir Colin C. Scott-Moncrieff, KCSI, KCMG, RE &c.) 1st Ed., xii+374pp., portrait frontis., 21 illus. John Murray. 1917  #63520
[HLMainPic] Biography based on reminiscences & letters edited by Scott-moncrieff's niece. He was ed. at Addiscombe, entered Bengal Engineers 1856 & retired as a Colonel in 1883. Served in the Mutiny in the campaign in Oudh &c., with Irrigation Dept in NW Province, Chief Engineer in Burma, then PWD in Egypt & Sudan 1883-92 (CSI for famine relief work in Madras 1878-79). Cloth stained/worn but sound & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £25
NICOL (Graham) Uncle George: Field-Marshal Lord Milne of Salonika & Rubislaw. 1st Ed., [x]+341pp., 33 photos., 4 maps. VG in sl. rubbed dw. Reedminster Publications. 1976  #61846
[HLMainPic] Sudan, Boer War, &c. WW1 Div. commander in France & GOC Salonika from 1916, Commanding Army of the Black Sea 1919-20 inc. Trans-Caucasia/South Russia ops. VG in rubbed dw & rare. See illustration on our website.   £60
SANDES (Lt.-Col. E.W.C.) The Royal Engineers in Egypt & The Sudan. 1st Ed., xxxii+571pp., 52 illus., 35 maps (some fldg.). Chatham: RE. 1937  #64161
[HLMainPic] In-depth study covering the early campaigns but mainly 1882-1898 & minor ops. during & after the Great War. Scholarly & authoritative work that, as well as the operational narratives, includes such civil projects as irrigation, railways, telegraphs, survey, &c. Orig. red cloth, gilt, little worn, VG. See illustration on our website.   £90
THORNTON (Surgeon Gen. Sir J.H., KCB) Memories of Seven Campaigns: A Record of Thirty-Five Years Service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt & Sudan. 1st Ed., xxviii+359pp., 64 illus. Constable. 1895  #66167
[HLMainPic] Appointed surgeon in the EIC shortly before the Mutiny (seeing much service in it, Relief of Lucknow &c.). Distinguished career also included China 1860, Bhootan, Egypt &c. & culminated in the Black Mountain Expedition in 1890, by which time he was Principal Medical Officer of the P.F.F. Modern blue cloth with leather lettering label to sp., VG thus. See illustration on our website.   £75
WATSON (Col. Sir Charles) The Life of Major-Genl. Sir Charles William Wilson, RE, KCB, KCMG. 1st Ed., xv+419pp., portrait frontis., 16 plates, 5 maps. Murray. 1909  #62568
[HLMainPic] Commissioned in Royal Engineers 1855; survey & boundary work in Middle East & Asia Minor, Chief of Intelligence in Nile Expedition 1884-85, took command during battle of Abu Klea when Sir Herbert Stewart was mortally wounded. Much detail on the Sudan campaign & failure to relieve Khartum &c. Orig. red cloth, gilt, sp. sl. sunned o/w VG. See illustration on our website.   £75

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