Author: LT-COL E.W.C. SANDES (SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY REGINALD WINGATE)
Title: The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan
Description: Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in publisher's red cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and with gilt creast to upper cover housed in a Very Good Dust-Jacket which has a few small tape repairs on the underside of the dust-wrapper.Not clipped to the inner flap.This copy has no previous ownership inscriptions present but has been SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Major Reginald Wingate on the Front Endpaper and reads.... '' To Miss C Mauderson with all good wishes from Sir Reginald Wingate July 1938 '' .The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and the dust-wrapper comes well protected in a cover sleeve.Complete with a Reginald Wingate, 8vo (239 x 153mm.) Portrait frontispiece of Kitchener and with many photographic plates plus plans and maps that number 33 and then there are 2 large folding maps of Egypt and the Sudan at the rear of the book.Please also note that Wingate was was a British General and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan.During his long and distinguished career he was awarded many honours including the GBE and the GVCO. He was a cousin to Orde Wingate to referred to him as 'Cousin Rex'.Reginald Wingate served in India and the Sudan becoming director of military intelligence in Sudan in 1892.Large 8vo [xxxii] 571pp First Edition 1937. Very Good+ .

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