Albuquerque by Stephens, H. Morse - 1892

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892. 222p. hardcover, boards mildly scuffed, front hinge re-glued, handwritten marginalia scattered throughout. Ownership inscription is signed "John Le Roy Christian, Major General Staff Corps," dated to August 16 1944 in New Delhi. At the time Christian serving as an American attached to Lord Mountbatten's general staff corps. In the following year Christian was in a landing craft that struck a mine on the Rangoon River, killing him at age 44. Rulers of India, 2. On Alfonso de Albuquerque, the first Duke of Goa under Portuguese colonial rule.