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Eighteen Years in Uganda & East Africa, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1908, photogravure frontispiece to volume 1, 60 plates from watercolours (4 in colour), folding colour map, 16-page publisher's catalogue, mild spotting to prelims, photogravure, map and page-edges, original blue cloth gilt, extremities very lightly bumped and rubbed, a few trivial marks, volume 2 spine rolled, 8vo, together with Wolseley (Garnet, 1st Viscount), The Story of a Soldier's Life, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1903, photogravure frontispieces, 3 plans (2 folding), title pages in red and black, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original green cloth gilt, extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, 8vo, plus Alexander (Boyd), From the Niger to the Nile, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edward Arnold, 1907, half-tone frontispieces, 42 similar plates, numerous text illustrations, 2 folding maps, light spotting, contemporary newspaper cutting mounted to volume 1 front free endpaper and offset to half-title, a few marginal nicks to volume 1 frontispiece, plate facing p. 2 volume 2 chipped to no loss of image, original red cloth gilt, spines faded, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, spine-ends nicked, 4to, and Mecklenburg (Adolf Friedrich Duke of, & others), From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile, an Account of the German Central African Expedition of 1910-1911, 2 volumes, 1st edition in English, Duckworth & Co., 1913, numerous photographic and other plates, folding map, text-block spotted, bookplates of Ernest E. Testi, endpapers browned, top edges dyed red, original red cloth, a few pale marks, 8vo, and 1 other Wolseley's Story is inscribed on the half-title of the first volume 'Dudley Alexander, with best wishes for the new year, from A J Mounteney Jephson, New Year 1904', with the engraved bookplate of the recipient, Major Dudley Alexander CMG (1863-1931) to front pastedown. Mounteney-Jephson (1859-1908) was a member of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. (10)