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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1966

Rhodesia
Literature
Col. R. S. Baden-Powell : The Matabele Campaign, 1896, Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, published London 1897
Important association copy with ownership signature of Col E.H. Llewellyn of Longford Court, Bristol (great great grandfather of former Prime Minister David Cameron).
The 500pp volume has extensive pen and pencil annotations and comments by Llewellyn throughout the text and illustrations, adding considerable information on opinions expressed by the author. He draws a plan of Fort Usher "I built the present Fort Usher…..", mentions Rhodes, Plumer, Gifford, Weston Jarvis and others.
Corners slightly bumped, inner hinges expertly repaired, lacks pp11-14 and 25-36 of the publisher's catalogue, but a unique volume that further adds to the published accounts of the Campaign

Estimate
£500 to £600