Lot No. 58: SIR ROBERTSON, GEORGE S.

SIR ROBERTSON, GEORGE S.

CHITRAL

THE STORY OF A MINOR SIEGE

Year: 1899

Size: 23 x 15.5 cm (9 x 6 inches)

Second Edition

Published by Methuen & Co., PP. X + 363 + 40
No. of Illustrations: 32 with 1 Folded Map and Four Plans

The second edition of Sir George Scott Robertson's account of the siege of Chitral, during which he commanded the British Empire's forces. Collated, illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-seven plates, and five maps, including a large folding map to the rear. Lacking four photographic plates.In the second edition of this work, Robertson discusses the Siege of Chitral, an 1895 military expedition in which British authorities attempted to relieve a fort which was under siege following a local coup. Four-hundred British men were besieged, and ultimately two expeditions relieved Robertson and his men.In this work, Robertson provides a thrilling first person account of events.With a forty page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding.
Chitral is a remote but strategically placed valley 250 miles long, high in the Hindu Kush Mountains.

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Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman