Indian Mutiny interest. A medical officer’s long career in seven campaigns.

THORNTON, James Howard, C.B., M.B., B.S.: Deputy -Surgeon General Indian Medical Service (retired) late Principal Medical Officer, Punjab Frontier Force: Memories of Seven Campaigns. A Record of thirty Five Years Service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan. Illustrated by Edward Thornton, A.R.I.B.A. and Katherine Margaret Thornton, Archibald Constable and Co. [London] 1895 1st edition 8vo.

Frontispiece portrait, 63 other illustration [small drawings in text and some plates). xxviii, 359pp. Original attractive binding of quarter red cloth gilt over blue cloth decorated with a gilt elephant, very clean bright binding, internally very clean with no previous ownerships marking and just a little occasional damp spotting. Includes chapters on the Mutiny. Ladendorf 402 says Includes an account of the Mutiny as his first campaign. Includes much descriptive detail of scenery, roads, etc.   mar28/1