£580
Box of books regarding military campaigns in Africa from the collection of Professor Wilks to include: Brackenbury; 'The Ashanti War', Volume I & II, 1774 and 'Narrative of the Ashanti War', Volume I & II, 1774 by the same author, Major Ricketts; 'Narrative of the Ashantee War' 1831, Reade, Wynward; 'The Story of the Ashantee Campaign' 1874, Butler, Major W.F; 'Akim-Foo the History of a Failure' 1875, Atteridge, Hilliard; 'Wars of the Nineties' 1899, LHodgson, Lady; 'Siege of Kumassi' 1901, Ritchie, Moore; 'Unfinished War' 1940, Armitage, Capt C.H & Montanaro, Lt-Coln A.F; 'Ashanti Campaign of 1900', 1901, 'African Pilot Part 1 1939', Clarke, Peter.B; 'West Africans at War', 'Dilemmas of the Desert War', 'The French Riveira Campaign of August 1944', 'The Conquest of the Western Sudan', 'British Military and Naval Forces in West African History', Dnoeu, Francois; 'Military French', O'Neill; 'War in African and the Far East', 'Empire at War Volume IV Africa', Gorges; 'The Great War in West Africa', 'Ashanti War 1900' advance copy by Herbert Camplow etc.
(B.P. 21% + VAT)
Ricketts 'Ashantee War' appears to be the original 1831 edition but may have been rebound. No evidence of missing pages and all plates and map are present. It is not library stamped.
Both copies of Brackenbury's 'Ashanti War' appear complete with no evidence of missing pages and all maps/frontispiece letter present. The half leather bound editions may have been rebound. They are not library stamped.
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