Gun Running on the North West Frontier and in the Persian Gulf, an important work of 1911

£175.00

Keppel, The Hon. Arnold: Gun – Running on the Indian North – West Frontier. John Murray 1911 1st edition 8vo.

24 photo illustrations, vignette of the Portuguese Castle at Fort Jellali Muscat on title page, 2 folding sketch maps (Districts of Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu & Dera Ismail Khan and Persian Mekran and Biyaban.), xiv.214pp, 2pp ads. Original green cloth gilt with a dagger gilt blocked to front board, an exceptionally bright\ clean copy, top edges gilt, internally very clean with no previous ownership markings. The work includes chapters on the Persian Gulf as well as Peshawar, Waziristan, and the Mekran Field Force, with which Keppel travelled. mar26/4.

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