£2,750.00
The British Government’s authoritative official history of the First World War in the Middle East, complete with the scarce and highly collectible map volume documenting operations across Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine.Quarto. Red publisher’s cloth, gilt titles to spines.
Numerous folding and full-page plans, many in colour. Condition: solid, unrestored examples; usual toning and handling to cloth; map case with expected wear consistent with use. Internally clean.
Year: 1928
Edition: Early Edition
Publisher: His Majesty’s Stationery Office
The British Government’s monumental official account of the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War. These volumes document strategy, logistics, command decisions, and battlefield movements across Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine, forming the backbone of modern scholarship on the campaign.
Produced under the authority of the Committee of Imperial Defence, they represent primary-level historiography rather than retrospective interpretation.
The map volume is particularly desirable: operational diagrams, troop movements, and terrain studies were working tools for military professionals and were frequently separated from the books. Survival in complete form materially increases collectability.
Official histories were printed for institutional use, not the collector market. Complete survivals with maps intact are increasingly difficult to assemble.
For collectors of Great War material, imperial history, or Middle Eastern military development, this is core reference material with enduring demand.
