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Burnaby, Captain Frederick.
On Horseback Through Asia Minor.
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London;
Date of Publication: 1877
Stock Code: 14361
First edition, two volumes. Octavos, pp., xxxii, 352, errata slip, 24 (advertisements); xix, 399. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and three maps of Asia Minor. Publisher’s olive green cloth with gilt titles to upper boards and spines, blocked in black pictorials to spines and upper boards and blind-stamping to lower boards. One leaf unopened (volume 1), bindings slightly shaken. general unobtrusive edge wear to extremities. Small tear (no loss) to map frontis of vol. II. An account of the 1000 miles rode in the harsh winter of 1876, as told by Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby (1842 - 1885). The purpose of such an expedition was to ascertain the probability of Constantinople resisting Tsarist threat. Burnaby was something of a legend in the minds of Victorian Imperialists for his pioneering and adventurous spirit. He served in the British Army for twenty six years, eventually meeting his end in combat at the Battle of Abu Klea. It is theorised that Burnaby is, in part, inspiration for the fictional anti-hero Henry Flashman. £200.00