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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

[St. Clair-Erskine (J.F.H.), 5th Earl of Rosslyn]

TWICE CAPTURED

Published: William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1900

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A Record of Adventure During the Boer War, 477 pages, folding frontispiece, numerous plates, original blue cloth gilt, presentation inscription on the front free endpaper, a good copy.

Mendelssohn 2:254, pages 253-4. \'The author, in the capacity of a war correspondent of the Daily Mail and the Sphere, was present at the battle of Pieter\'s Hill and the Relief of Ladysmith. Later on he made his way through Basutoland, and crossed the Boer lines near Thaba\' Nchu, but was taken prisoner at Dewetsdorp, and escaping, was recaptured at Reddersburg and imprisoned for nine weeks at Pretoria. He gives his impressions of three Boer prisons and a very graphic account of the state of the capital of the Transvaal during the last days of Boer government before the British occupation’.

The presentation inscription reads: ‘To Cecil Manners from his fellow prisoner, the author, Rosslyn. Oct. 1900.’

  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (210 x 145 mm)
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