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SHERVINTON, Kathleen.
The Shervintons.
Soldiers of Fortune. Shervinton of Madagascar, Shervinton of Salvador and Tom Shervinton, N.N.C.
First Edition. Attractive and far from common family memoir. The majority concerns Charles Robert Shervinton who served with the native infantry in Ekowe, later obtaining a commission in the Cape Mounted Rifles and rising to major, in which rank he served under Carrington in the Basuto War. In 1884 he went to Madagascar becoming commander of the Malagasy army and leading it in its fated campaign against the French Expeditionary Force in 1895. He committed suicide in London in 1898. His brother William Shervinton fought as a freelance for Guetamala in its war against Nicaragua. As often, this is a family copy with a gift inscription from Isabel Shervinton.
Octavo. Original aqua cloth title gilt to the upper board and spine, trophy of African arms in black to the upper board, top edge gilt. others uncut. Portrait frontispiece and 5 other plates, 2 maps. A very good copy, spine a little sunned, small splash mark to the lower board.
