Sir Richmond Palmer — The Bornu Sahara and Sudan

London, John Murray , 1936. First edition. Leather. One of 500 copies of Robert Palmer's extensive study of Bornu people, illustrated with plates and a folding map. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Bound in half calf by Period Bookbinders, Bath, with their label to the recto of the rear free endpaper. Bound with the half title. With renewed endpapers. Errata slip bound in following pp. viii.Illustrated with a frontispiece, title page vignette, thirty monochrome plates (one dual spread) and a folding map to the rear. Collated, complete. From English barrister turned colonial supervisor, Richmond Palmer. He served as a lieutenant governor in Nigeria, governor and Commander-in-Chief of The Gambia and governor and Commander-in-Chief of Cyprus.This work is technically a supplementary volume to the author's Sudanese Memoirs, the last volume of which was published in 1928. Both are the result of the author's 26 years spent in various parts of Northern Nigeria, occupied largely by attempts to find data for the completion of a true history of the more important units of ruling races, such as the Fulbe and Kanuri of Borno. In his journey across Africa in 1918, he was able to obtain first-hand information on matters connected with this subject. Bound in half calf by Period Bookbinders, Bath, with their label to the recto of the rear free endpaper. Externally, lovely, with minimal signs of wear or marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with spots to the first and last few leaves, including the folding map to the rear. Near Fine . Ill.: John Swain & Son, Ltd. Near Fine .