ANDREW BALFOUR (1873-1931) KCMG CB, Sir, schottischer Arzt, Schriftsteller und Rugbyspieler / Scottish Medical Officer who specialised in tropical medicine. Balfour spent twelve years in Khartoum, Sudan and was the Medical Officer of Health in the city.

ANDREW BALFOUR (1873-1931) KCMG CB, Sir, schottischer Arzt, Schriftsteller und Rugbyspieler / Scottish Medical Officer who specialised in tropical medicine. Balfour spent twelve years in Khartoum, Sudan and was the Medical Officer of Health in the city. As well as writing medical publications, Balfour also wrote historical fiction and fantasy novels, the majority of which were published from 1897 to 1903. In his youth Balfour was also a notable sportsman playing rugby union for Cambridge University in the Varsity Match and was selected to represent the Scotland national team.,He irst introduced the dissection of the human body into Scotland

BY STROKE OF SWORD (sein Erstling, über Königin Maria von Schottland / about Mary, Queen of Scots)

London, Methuen and Company, 4. Aufl. 1898, 326 SS. plus Catalogueof Books, gebunden (Hardcover, rotes Oln. kl. 8 to, berieben), kl. Besitzvermerk auf Vorsatz, noch ordentlich erhalten

DAZU :  E.Brief (3 S. kl. 8 to) in Tinte mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift signiert, anschließend nochmal eigenhändige Nachschrift mit Initialsignatur   Edinburgh, Sept. 5, 1907  -  an My dear Wilkinson, erwähnt Sir Henry Littlejohn...