Gerard, Montagu Gilbert, (Sir, Lt.-General). - Leaves from the Diaries of a Soldier and Sportsman During Twenty Years' Service in India, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Other Countries 1865-1885.

"Murray's Imperial Library, Standard Works. For Sale In India & The Colonies Only". John Murray. London 1903 1st edition thus. Bound green cloth boards decorated gilt and red map showing Imperial Library wording as noted. 399pp. Illustrated 25 plates, photographic and sketches, by author and W.D. Adams. Teg, fore and lower edges roughcut. Boards and spine show intensive insect depredations, thus unattractive. Several ownership inscriptions to feps. All plates present. Foxing throughout especially to preliminary and end pages, the plates have generally escaped this except by offset from an adjacent page. A sound reading copy This relates to the Author's hunting and military exploits (but contains no references to Africa). An interesting text with much on native life in the area where he travelled. Extremely scarce in the original edition.

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