First Edition, with 7 lithographed plates and a folding diagram, 8vo., pp. xii, 210, [1], v [index], [1] [errata leaf], later half green morocco, a very good rare item.This copy is lacking the 4 folding maps. One of the most detailed reports on Kordofan available up to this time. The arrangement of the report is as follows: Part I. Geography, Topography and Inhabitants. Part II. Soil and Water-Supply. Part III. Products, Resources and Commerce. Part IV. Climate. “...he was second in command to R.E. Colston Bey on a reconnaissance if Kordofan, 1875, and took over command after Colston was invalided at al-Ubaiyad; he then led the expedition into Dar Fur; he made valuable reports on Kordofan and Dar Fur including the results of topographical surveys and astronomical observations; promoted qa’immaqam and transferred to Equatoria, he was governor of that province in 1876 in succession to C.G. Gordon Pasha who was appointed governor-general of the Sudan...” (Richard Hill, A Biographical Dictionary of the Sudan, London, 1967). Hill p. 72.