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Condition: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original flat backed camel brown card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. Contains 242 pp + vi pp advertisements, with monochrome illustrations, maps including 2 folding (i): large folding (30'' x 23'') 'Exploration in the South Libyan Desert' by D. Newbold and W. B. K. Shaw (ii): small folding (15½'' x 12½'') 'Nukheila or Merga Oasis' and photographs throughout. In Very Good condition. Sudan Notes and Records was founded in 1918. Until 1952, it was the only regularly published journal in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Early on, the Journal published the ethnographic observations of British district officials, whose interest in social anthropology and ethnology was encouraged by their need to find out about the people that they administered. S. N. & R. also regularly published papers on linguistics, archaeology, agricultural practices, the navigability or rivers (and edibility of their fish), the histories of towns and places, big game hunting, sport and a miscellany of other topics. These papers were written by colonial officials, anthropologists, missionaries, doctors, and others (Wikipedia). Member of the P.B.F.A. NORTH AFRICA [Sudan].…