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GENERAL SIR SAMUEL JAMES BROWNE VC, GCB, KCSI (1824-1901), compiler

Auction 13.07.2006
13.07.2006
Schätzpreis
4.000 £ - 6.000 £
ca. 7.376 $ - 11.064 $
Zuschlagspreis:
4.800 £
ca. 8.851 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 45

GENERAL SIR SAMUEL JAMES BROWNE VC, GCB, KCSI (1824-1901), compiler

Auction 13.07.2006
13.07.2006
Schätzpreis
4.000 £ - 6.000 £
ca. 7.376 $ - 11.064 $
Zuschlagspreis:
4.800 £
ca. 8.851 $
Beschreibung:

GENERAL SIR SAMUEL JAMES BROWNE VC, GCB, KCSI (1824-1901), compiler ' Papers on Frontier Politics. Russia and Kabul. 1877. 1878 ' [titled thus on the upper board]. [Simla: Government Central Branch Press and Lahore: Government Civil Secretariat Press, 1877-1885.] -- A collection of 26 Indian Government memoranda and reports relating to Indian Frontier Politics, 1877-1885, including a 9pp. confidential report by Fred Roberts, 'What are Russia's Vulnerable Points? And how have recent events affected our Afghan Frontier policy?' (22nd May 1885) and a 4pp. confidential report by C.H. Brownlow, 'The War in Afghanistan' (5th July 1880). (Long repaired tear affecting one text leaf). 26 works bound in one volume, 2° (314 x 192mm). Contemporary half roan over marbled boards, manuscript title label on upper board, red-speckled edges (lightly rubbed, short cracks on hinges). Provenance : Government of India (official blind stamps to some memoranda) -- General Sir Samuel James Browne VC, GCB, KCSI (1824-1901; ownership inscriptions on some memoranda, others inscribed to 'the Hon'ble Lieut.-General Sir S.J. Browne ... with the compliments of the Foreign Secretary'; Browne's manuscript annotations in ink and pencil throughout the volume). A RARE COLLECTION OF INDIAN GOVERNMENT PAPERS RELATING TO THE GREAT GAME, FROM THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR SAMUEL BROWNE VC, GCB, KCSI, documenting British military strategy, tactics and logistics on the Indian frontier around the time of the Second Afghan War. A prominent figure in the Indian Army and inventor of the eponymous Army leather belt, Browne commanded the Peshawar Field Force during the Second Afghan War. In the march on Kabul, Browne led his column of 16,000 troops and 48 guns to the Khyber Pass in November 1878, capturing the key fortress of Ali Masjid at the head of the pass, then proceeding through the pass to capture Jalalabad. For this action Browne was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. He was promoted to general in 1888 and retired in 1898 aged 74.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 45
Auktion:
Datum:
13.07.2006
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
13 July 2006, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

GENERAL SIR SAMUEL JAMES BROWNE VC, GCB, KCSI (1824-1901), compiler ' Papers on Frontier Politics. Russia and Kabul. 1877. 1878 ' [titled thus on the upper board]. [Simla: Government Central Branch Press and Lahore: Government Civil Secretariat Press, 1877-1885.] -- A collection of 26 Indian Government memoranda and reports relating to Indian Frontier Politics, 1877-1885, including a 9pp. confidential report by Fred Roberts, 'What are Russia's Vulnerable Points? And how have recent events affected our Afghan Frontier policy?' (22nd May 1885) and a 4pp. confidential report by C.H. Brownlow, 'The War in Afghanistan' (5th July 1880). (Long repaired tear affecting one text leaf). 26 works bound in one volume, 2° (314 x 192mm). Contemporary half roan over marbled boards, manuscript title label on upper board, red-speckled edges (lightly rubbed, short cracks on hinges). Provenance : Government of India (official blind stamps to some memoranda) -- General Sir Samuel James Browne VC, GCB, KCSI (1824-1901; ownership inscriptions on some memoranda, others inscribed to 'the Hon'ble Lieut.-General Sir S.J. Browne ... with the compliments of the Foreign Secretary'; Browne's manuscript annotations in ink and pencil throughout the volume). A RARE COLLECTION OF INDIAN GOVERNMENT PAPERS RELATING TO THE GREAT GAME, FROM THE LIBRARY OF GENERAL SIR SAMUEL BROWNE VC, GCB, KCSI, documenting British military strategy, tactics and logistics on the Indian frontier around the time of the Second Afghan War. A prominent figure in the Indian Army and inventor of the eponymous Army leather belt, Browne commanded the Peshawar Field Force during the Second Afghan War. In the march on Kabul, Browne led his column of 16,000 troops and 48 guns to the Khyber Pass in November 1878, capturing the key fortress of Ali Masjid at the head of the pass, then proceeding through the pass to capture Jalalabad. For this action Browne was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. He was promoted to general in 1888 and retired in 1898 aged 74.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 45
Auktion:
Datum:
13.07.2006
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
13 July 2006, London, King Street
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