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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No DJ. Unread. Scuffed, foxed covers with rubbing at corner tips. Previous owner name inked on front free page: Phyllis Tinsley, Brookdale Ave., Oakland, CA. Another previous owner bookplate on inside front cover: Arthur M. Valentine. No finding any other markings in book. Binding is tight.…

Hardcover. Octavo, xviii, 636 pages + 32 page publisher catalog. In Fair condition. Ex-library with call number in ink on title page, surface tears from removed bookplate on front pastedown and removed library pocket on rear pastedown. Spine is brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth with gilt illustration on front, mitred edges. Wear to spine caps and corners, toning to spine, peripheral toning, light soiling, shelf wear. Text block has has gilt top edge. Cracked hinges, note in ink on half-title page, long note in ink on verso of frontispiece with bottom portion clipped, intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #5 . 1375386. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. New Edition. xviii, [2], 416 p. Includes: illustrations, index. From WIkipedia: Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, Geh. Rat, GCVO, KCMG, CB (June 7, 1857, Ober-Sankt-Veit, Hietzing, Vienna October 4, 1932, Vienna) was an Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan. Slatin was born in Ober St Veit near Vienna. Rudolf Carl Slatin was born the fourth child of the merchant Michael Slatin, who had converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism, and his second wife, Maria Anna Feuerstein. His father died while Rudolf was at the Viennese commercial academy. While there, he heard that a German bookseller in Cairo was looking for an assistant. Rudolf traveled to Trieste and thence in five days' time to Alexandria. He worked in the bookstore until he travelled with the German businessman and consul Rosset to Khartoum. From Khartoum, Slatin went through Kordofa to Dar Nuba, exploring the mountains of that region with the German explorer and ornithologist Theodore von Heuglin. He was forced to return to Khartoum when the local Arabs rebelled against the Egyptian government. There Slatin met Dr. Schnitzel, later famous as "Emin Pasha", and with him intended to visit General Charles George Gordon at Lado, Gordon at that time being Governor of the Equatorial Provinces. Slatin, however, was obliged to return to Austria without accomplishing his desire, though Emin did go to Lado and at Slatin's request recommended the young traveller to Gordon for employment in the Sudan. Slatin left Africa in order to serve his conscription order in the Austrian army. On September 25 1876 he joined his unit the 12. Feldjägerbatallon as recruit and one year later he was promoted to a Lieutenant in the reserves of the 19th Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army. In 1878, while Slatin was serving as a lieutenant in the crown prince Rudolf's regiment in the Bosnian campaign, he received a letter from Gordon inviting him to the Sudan, where Gordon had become the Governor-General. At the close of the campaign, Slatin received permission to go to Africa. He started his travel via train and ship on the December 1st 1878 and he arrived in Khartum in January 1879. After a brief period as financial inspector, Slatin was appointed Mudir (governor) of Dara, the south-western part of Darfur, a post he held until early in 1881, when he was promoted Governor-General of Darfur and given the rank of bey. While administering Dara, Slatin conducted a successful campaign against one of the Darfur princes in revolt, and later, as governor of Darfur. Early in 1882 the Rizeigat tribesmen of Southern Darfur rebelled, led by Sheikh Madibbo ibn Ali, a convert to the cause of the religious leader known as the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad. Slatin gallantly defended his province and though he fought many successful battles, he gradually lost ground. At Om Waragat he lost 8, 000 of his men in the first 20 minutes of the battle and was himself wounded three times but he managed to fight his way back to Dara. Believing his troops attributed their failure in battle to the fact that he was a Christian, Slatin publicly adopted Islam in 1883 and took the Islamic name, Abd al Qadir. The Mahdists then captured el Obeid, the capital of Kordofan, severing all Slatin's links with Khartoum. When Hicks Pasha's expedition was annihilated at the Battle of Shaykan in 1883, Slatin finally surrendered to his old enemy the Mahdist Emir Madibbo, refusing to make any further sacrifice of life in a hopeless cause. When the Mahdists reached Khartum, an attempt was made to use him to induce the commander Charles George Gordon, now Governor General of Sudan, to surrender. This failing, Slatin was placed in chains, and on the morning of January 26, 1885, an hour or two after the fall of Khartum, Gordon's head was brought to the camp and shown to the captive. After the sudden death of the Mahdi the same year, Slatin was kept at Omdurman by his successor, the Khalifa Abdullahi, being treated alternately.…