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SCARCE FIRST EDITION 2 VOLS, ALL PLATES MAPS PRESENT, EX-LIBRARY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spines & front boards, frontispieces with tissue guards, vol 1- xxii + 462pp & x + 499pp, scruffy (heavy cracking/separation to spine of vol 1, some ex-library markings- some to boards, moderate scuffing & chafing to boards with some fraying to cloth, light to moderate foxing & tanning to page edges & prelims/terminals, light foxing to pages of both vols, light water staining to top corner of pgs to vol 1, heavy cracking to gutters of both vols, boards shaky).

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899), by Winston Churchill, is a history of the British imperial involvement in the Sudan and the campaign to reconquer the Sudan following the defeat of the revolt led by the Mahdist leader, Muhammad Ahmad.