Travel & Military. A collection of travel and military history books, 19th and early-20th century, including: 1) Sykes (Sir Mark). The Caliphs' Last Heritage. A Short History of the Turkish Empire, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915. 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for (including 3 folding maps in end-pocket), rear inner hinge cracked, 2) Desai (Kanu). Mahatma Gandhi. Sketches in Pen, Pencil and Brush. With an Essay by Verrier Elwin, 1st edition, London: Golden Vista Press, 1932. 4to, original boards, front cover with full-length silhouette portrait of Gandhi, dust jacket, colour plates, 3) Highmore (Anthony). The History of the Honourable Artillery Company, of the City of London, 1st edition, London: for the author, 1802. 8vo, 19th-century pebble-grain cloth, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding plan, folding plate, spine faded and frayed, inner hinges cracked, 4) Hakluyt Society. Missions to the Niger ... Edited by E. W. Bovill, 1st edition, Cambridge: for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1964-6. 4 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, 5) Buick (T. Lindsay). The French at Akaroa. An Adventure in Colonization, 1st edition, Wellington: New Zealand Book Depot, 1928. 8vo, original cloth, plates and maps, 6) Lawrence (Sir Walter Roper). The India We Served, 1st edition, London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1928. 8vo, original cloth, and approx. 50 others similar, including substantial Napoleonic Wars material (qty: 6 boxes). Provenance: John Harold Fawcett CMG (1929-2019), British diplomat, many works containing his armorial bookplate, with the motto 'Non nobis solum sed patriae' ('Not for ourselves alone but for our country') . Fawcett served as ambassador to North Vietnam, 1974-1975, counsellor and head of chancery, Poland, 1975-1978, deputy high commissioner, New Zealand, 1978-1986, and ambassador to Bulgaria, 1986-1989 (six boxes) The lot sold as seen, not subject to return.