101. [Palestine Content] – Luke, Harry Charles / Bertram, Sir Anton.

Orthodox Patriarchate Of Jerusalem – Jaffa Riots. [With a very interesting and detailed, six-page manuscript memorandum (Notes) by Sir Harry Luke on Palestine and Syria in which Luke breaks down important points he wants to make on the “BD” [Balfour Declaration] and the McMahon Pledge and he also notes Garrison strengths of the Arab Legions, RAF and TJFF / Luke writes about the balance between “Old Jews” and “new immigrants”, Jewish Colonies “Green Crescent”, Palestinian Police etc. etc. / The book includes a few manuscript corrections by Luke in the Memorandum on Financial Affairs].

Proof Copy. [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / Edinburgh / Glasgow, etc. Oxford University Press, 1921. 22,5 cm x 15 cm. VI, 325 pages, 64 pages. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Some foxing to front and rear pastedowns, few stains on boards. Otherwise in good condition.

102. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke].

Scrapbook of articles (newspaper-clippings) written by Harry Charlkes Lukach [later Sir Harry Luke] Clippings during his very first job at the “New York Commercial [Advertiser]”. With manuscript annotation: “H.C.Lukach – Joined “New York Commercial” – Feb. 9th 1903 – Resigned – May 23rd [1903].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. New York, New York Commercial, 1903. 27 cm x 20 cm. [22] pages. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Cockling to pages, rubbing to boards. Otherwise in excellent condition. Harry Luke must have taken this very first job at the New York paper shortly after leaving Eton and prior to joining Trinity College. The New York Commercial was also the first stop for investigative journalist Joseph Lincoln Steffens. Luke’s scrapbook of articles lets us already see his talent in summarizing events and getting to the point ! The job was clearly based on his father’s connections in New York and Luke must have quickly realized it was not for him !

103. [Cyprus / Famagusta / Mudros Content] – [Wemyss, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rosslyn / Governor of Moudros] – Lukach, Harry Charles [later Sir Harry Luke] / [Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss / Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Michael de Robeck].

[Collection of five items of Signed Portrait of Sir Rosslyn Wemyss and Excellent Manuscript-Letter – Exchange with Harry Lukach, later Sir Harry Luke] The collection includes: 1. Original SIGNED Portrait of Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, while Rear Admiral, Senior Officer and Governor of Moudros / Mudros / 2. Together with autographed and signed manuscript-letter by Sir Rosslyn to his friend and subordinate, Harry Lukach [later Sir Harry Luke], who obviously had sent him congratulations when Wemyss was appointed as Admiral Sir Jellicoe’s replacement in December 1917 as First Sea Lord: “My dear Lukach – it was nice of you to send me your telegram but you will realize that I haven’t looked upon my appointment as an object for congratulations, though it is none the less nice that I should receive them from my friends. I had a letter from your father the other day, who told me that he thought it was possible that you decided to get out of your present Job, & that if so I could possibly be [?] for you to do so. If you have any ideas on the subject, do write & let me know, for you may be quite sure that I shall be only too glad to do anything to help you in that direction, for as I have told you before, I think that your powers should be need in some less circumscribed area than where you are at present – All good luck – Believe me – Yours very sincerely (s o) R.E. Wemyss” (dated 5th January, 1918) / 3. Together with Harry Lukach’s answer in a manuscript letter from February 11th, 1918, on Stationery of “Famagusta Club – Cyprus”: “Dear Sir Rosslyn, I am most grateful for your letter of the 5th January, & for your kindness in thinking of me among your many preoccupations. I need scarcely assure you that I am only too anxious to [?] what Service under the Admiralty, if this were possible, as I feel that, although I have recently been given promotion inside Cyprus to the Commissionship of Famagusta, I might perhaps be of more use at present Day in Palestine, the Balkans, or Elsewhere in the Near or Middle East than here. If any Naval Mission in those theatres required someone to do work of a kind for which you thought me fitted, I do not think the CO would think of declining to second me if you were to be good enough to ask for my services, especially as I am known to you personally through having had the privilege of serving on your Staff, Yours very sincerely (so) HCLukach”. / 4. Together with a stunning Typescript-copy of Luke’s application from his post in Famagusta, Cyprus, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on 31 October, 1918, in which Luke lists his many achievements and asks for an administrative or political appointment in Turkey or Persia “if on conclusion of peace any territories in those countries should pass under British administration or control (this typescript is written while Lukach is Commissioner of Famagusta, Cyprus and he mentions the service under Sir Rosslyn Wemyss) – Luke also includes a typescript of C.D. Fenn for the Chief Secretary to Government in the year 1916 in which the Government confirms appreciation of his valuable service in connection with the administration of Mudros. Luke kept all these items together in his collection with the scrapbook-collection of printed Mudros – Orders he received from Wemyss and de Robeck while on Mudros (see below description of item No.5).

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Mudros, Authority, c. 1918. 33,5 cm x 21,5 cm. Size of the Original Photograph Portrait of Sir Rosslyn Wemyss: Image: 14.5 cm wide x 19.5 cm high, signed in ink and mounted on board which measures 17.5 cm wide x 22.7 cm high. / The Volume with official documents counts c. 100 pages. Original Hardcover. The extremely rare photograph of Sir Rosslyn Wemyss in very good condition and beautifully signed and only with some minor signs of wear / The Mudros – Volume of official orders by Wemyss, de Robeck and Lukach with some minor staining to boards, very occasional only some foxing to pages. Otherwise in excellent condition.

104. [Malta Content] – Luke, Harry Charles / Skewes-Cox, Lieut.– Colonel Miles.

Letter to and from Lieut.-Colonel Miles Skewes-Cox.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. 1965. 22,5 cm x 20,5 cm. [6] pages. From Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal library.

105. [Pacific Content] – [Luke, Harry Charles].

[Typescript of Sir Harry Luke’s visit to Noumea in the “Viti” after the fall of France, in August, 1940. [in: The American Mercury / Digest Of World Reading – with several interesting articles, also including an article describing the impression Sir Harry Luke made in the West Pcific in his duty for the British Empire].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. New York, The American Mercury Inc., c. 1941. 20 cm x 14,5 cm. c. 245 pages. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Some spotting on boards, bumping to corners. Otherwise in good condition.

106. [Sierra Leone Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

A Bibliography And Some Reviews.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. [Sierra Leone], Privately Printed, [22nd of December, 1927]. 15,5 cm x 13 cm. 59 pages. Original Softcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Vertical blue/green stain to front board. Otherwise in good condition.

107. [Autobiography Cities and Men] – Luke, Sir Harry [Luke, Harry Charles].

Cities And Men: An Autobiography [Working copy of Sir Harry Luke with original letters and notes included / With manuscript annotations in the chapter on Cyprus “The Enchanted Island”]. Volume I and II in one.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Geoffrey Bles, 1953. 22 cm x 14,5 cm. Volume I: 245 pages / Volume II: 256 pages. Original Hardcover. Sir Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Some rubbing to spine, bumping to boards. Otherwise in good condition.

108. [The Tenth Muse] – Luke, Harry Charles [Colonial Cookery Book Manuscript Notebook].

Manuscript Notebook, Working – copy and printed version of “The Tenth Muse: An unconventional cookery book of recipes from many lands”. [Including Sir Harry Luke’s Manuscript Notebook in which he collected on 96 pages and loosely inserted letters/notes some of his recipes when he was travelling. The notebook comes also with his personal working-copy of the printed book, with sources for recipes / letters / heavily annotated by Luke. The recipe-notebook, written in the 1930s, includes several pages with historical recipes of Food prepared in Cyprus, with special recipes of “Kyrenia Salad”, “Apricot Brandy (Cyprus)”, “Kyrenia Tomato Paste”, Kyrenia Salad”]. Collected and compiled, with an introductory chapter by Sir Harry Luke. With the collaboration of Elizabeth Godfrey.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Putnam, c.1930-1954. 22 cm x 14,5 cm. The Manuscript Notebook includes 96 pages with letters, notes and sclippings included / The working copy with letters and clippings and annotations: 240 pages. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke.

109. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles / Queen of Tonga [Salote Tupou III (born Salote Mafile‘o Pilolevu)]

Islands Of The South Pacific. [With ten (10) letters loosely inserted among which is a wonderful, signed letter to Sir Harry Luke, by the Queen of Tonga, Salote Tupou / (Also included are four (4) items of Ephemera)]. With the printed dedication: “To Leander McCormick-Goodhart – Who knows some of these Islands – Pignus amicitiae per annos LXIII”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / Toronto / Sydney, etc., George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1962. 21,5 cm x 15 cm. 285 pages, 61 illustrations (Many Photographs and some Woodcuts from Robert Gibbings). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With one annotation by Harry Luke. Some tearing to dustjacket, tanning to spine. Otherwise in good condition. See below a full list of manuscript letters and typed letters which were loosely inserted by Sir Harry Luke in this personal copy of his book on the “Islands of the South Pacific”.

110. [Pacific Content / Gardner Island] – Luke, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke / [Gerald Gallagher on Nikumaroro (Gardner Island) / Patrick Jay Hurley – United States Minister to New Zealand].

From a South Seas Diary: 1938-1942. [Personal Working copy Number One without Index / “Review copy” of Sir Harry Luke – with very many annotations, additions and corrections which led to the ultimate finished print (this working copy has no Index yet) / With Three (3) Letters loosely inserted of which one is regarding funds for a bronze plaque for Gerald Gallaghaer’s grave on Nikumaroro (Gardner Island) / With Two (2) manuscript notes loosely inserted / With one handmade and handpainted bookmark signed and gifted Christmas 1941 by Cottrell-Dormer, Cox of the Iririki Hospital (Cottrell-Dormer is also mentioned in the Preface) / With a tipped-in Typescript on page 233, regarding the unannounced visit to Suva by United States Minister to New Zealand, Patrick Jay Hurley, on his way to take office. This typescript was clearly written to be included in the book but, for obvious reasons of diplomatic tact, never made it into the final publication. The typescript includes manuscript annotations by Luke and is a fine character-study of Patrick Hurley and his tendency to greet people with “an ear-piercing Indian war whoop or yell [Choctaw war crie, by Luke wrongly remembered as Osage Indian] / Luke rememberes in the typescript the spring of 1942: “About this time I was asked by Washington to look out for and put up, among many American military and naval notabilities who used to pass through Suva….crossing and recrossing the Pacific….So whenever a Catalina was sighted as being about to alight in Suva Harbour, my A.D.C. would hurry down to meet her…..One afternoon in 1942, Mungo dashed off to meet such an aircraft and did not return empty. Into the drawing-room of Government House strode a tall….flamboyant figure…General Hurley soon gave me to understand that in his private opinion Oklahoma was the only State in the Union that really mattered, an opinion which in the circumstances seemed an entirely proper one for him to cherish”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Nicholson & Watson, 1945. 19 cm x 12,5 cm. 252 pages with 185 photographs by the author. Original Softcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Split hinge, almost detached. Otherwise in fair condition.

111. [Pacific Content / Gardner Island] – Luke, Harry Charles.

From a South Seas Diary: 1938-1942. [Personal Working copy Number Two, now with the added Index and a six-page manuscript notepad for a lecture by Luke in the year 1957 at the British Embassy in Oslo “Islands of the Caribbean” (four of the manuscript-pages on stationery of St.James Club, Piccadilly)] / This second working copy is an actual printed version of the final book but Luke immediately used it as his personal Review copy with some occasional annotations and corrections, for a possible new edition].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Nicholson & Watson, 1945. 19 cm x 12,5 cm. 255 pages, illustrated throughout with 185 photographs by the author. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Tearing to dustjacket, bumping to boards. Otherwise in good condition.

112. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

Britain And The South Seas [Two Volumes ! Comes with Sir Harry Luke’s personal working copy of the text-only-version of this publication, with one annotation].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / New York / Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co., 1949. 18,5 cm x 12 cm. 79 pages, 21 illustrations. Original Softcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Split hinge, almost detached. Otherwise in fair condition.

113. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

The British Pacific Islands. [Sir Harry Luke’s personal working copy (and titled by him as such on the front cover) with a cutout on page 5/6 and some longer annotation on page 24 regarding Pitcairn Island as well as more annotations at the end of the pamphlet].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Oxford University Press, 1943. 18 cm x 12 cm. 31 pages with maps printed on the front pastedown (″The Western Pcific Islands”) and the rear pastedown (″The Pacific Ocean”). Original Softcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal Working copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Some rubbing to covers. Otherwise in good condition. [Oxford Pamphlets On World Affairs, No. 64.].

114. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

British Pacific Islands. (Notes For Lantern Slides / Colonial Empire Marketing Board Collection) / With a manuscript sheet regarding a Lecture on March 12th, 1952 in which Luke wanted to talk about Guadalcanal etc.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Imperial Institute, c.1943. 24 cm x 11,5 cm. 13 pages. Original Softcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Slight wrinkling to covers, a brown spot to front cover. Otherwise in good condition.

115. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

Sammelband / Collection of various editions of publications related to the British Western Pacific which were written by Sir Harry Luke.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Nicholson & Watson, 1945, 19 cm x 13 cm. 252 pages. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With his signature to the endpaper.

116. [Sierra Leone Content] – Luke, Harry Charles / [Professor Edward Blyden III].

Collection of two publications and several letters: A Bibliography of Sierra Leone: Preceded By An Essay On The Origin, Character and Peoples of the Colony and Protectorate. [This publication comes with Luke’s personal copy of Sierra Leone Studies No.IX. – August 1927, in which Luke did not only write the Editorial Introduction but we also see included in this issue as an introduction to the section on “Street and Place Names in and around Freetown” (by Dr.R.H.Kennan), a reprinted letter of R.H.Kennan to Luke (page 9 of this issue). Luke notes on the cover of this issue the main reason why this pamphlet is in his private library: “including an account of our Mount Bintumane ascent” [Luke was part of the Mount Bintumane Expedition: “On the 18th August, 1926, Bintumane, the highest peak of the Lomas, the loftiest mountains in Sierra Leone, was climbed for the first time by an officer administering the Government of the Colony….on a fine misty morning we left our rest camp, situated beside a beautiful white-water face, itself more than 2,500 feet above sea level and, headed by the Acting Governor (Mr.Luke), commenced the Ascent [Sir Ransford Slater, Governor of Sierra Leone, made the ascent only the following year (1927)]. This wonderful collection of two publications also includes several loosely inserted Typescripts, Typed Letters and Manuscript-letters between Sir Harry Luke and Professor Edward Blyden III [Four (4) letters] as well as two (2) letters from Dr.P.E.H.Hair from Fourah Bay College, Freetwown, Sierra Leone [with typescripty of Luke’s answer behind one of the letters]/ Also included a manuscript note from Luke, titled “Description of Photographs from Sierra Leone” in which Luke outlines in detail nine (9) illustrations [possibly for a later edition of the work] and mentions: “A Paramount Chief in Gala costume with wives, children and staff-bearer. The wives holding rattles used in the Dances of the Bundu (Women’s secret Society), Mende Tribe, Railway District, Sierra Leone / A Porro Devil on stilts (a Dancer of the Porro or Men’s secret society) etc. etc.]. With Illustrations And Map.

Second, Enlarged Edition. [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Oxford University Press, 1925. 19 cm x 13 cm. 230 pages, 4 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy.

117. [Autobiography Cities and Men] – Luke, Harry Charles.

[Manuscript Annotations in:] Uncorrected Proof Copy of Cities And Men: An Autobiography. Volume II (1914-1924) / This is the ultimately corrected version with manuscript annotations and corrections by Sir Harry Luke in ballpen and ink. Corrections especially in the chapters “The End of Transcaucasian Independence” and “Jerusalem, 1920 – 1924”. Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Geofrey Bles, 1953. 21,5 cm x 14,5 cm. 256 pages. Original Softcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Cocked and wrinkled spine. Otherwise in good condition.

118. [Miscellaneous Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Harry Charles] Ceram, C. W.

Gods, Graves, And Scholars: The Story of Archaeology. Translated From The German By E. B. Garside.

First Edition, Ninth impression. [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1954. 22,5 cm x 15,5 cm. XII, 433 pages, 32 plates. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With a gift inscription on front free endpaper from Sir Harry Charles Luke, to his grandson and later heir, Harry Luke, son of Peter Luke. Faded spine and boards. Otherwise in good condition.

119. [Mesopotamia / Nineveh / Iraq] – Luke, Harry Charles.

Mosul And Its Minorities [Harry Luke’s personal working copy, identifying it as such also on the endpaper / Manuscript annotations and markings on many pages with corrections and additions, possibly for a second edition].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Martin Hopkinson & Co., Ltd., 1925. 22,5 cm x 15 cm. IX, 161 pages, 16 illustrations on Plates and three (3) small maps printed within the text. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Poor condition of the binding. Spine cracked, almost detached. A few loosely inserted plates. Otherwise in fair condition. From the personal collection of Sir Harry Luke.

120. [Sierra Leone Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

A Bibliography of Sierra Leone: Preceded By An Essay On The Origin, Character and Peoples of the Colony and Protectorate. With Illustrations And Map.

Reprint of the Second, Enlarged Edition from 1925. [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. New York, Negro Universities Press, 1969. 22,5 cm x 15 cm. 230 pages, 4 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Slightly bumped crown and top corners. Otherwise in very good condition.

121. [Sierra Leone Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

A Bibliography of Sierra Leone: With An Introductory Essay On The Origin, Character And Peoples Of The Colony.

First Edition. [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Oxford, At The Clarendon Press, 1910. 23,5 cm x 16 cm. 144 pages, 2 maps. Original Hardcover. Pages unopened/uncut. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy.

122. [Malta Content] – [Luke, Harry Charles] King, Sir Edwin.

The Knights Of St. John In The British Realm. Being the Official History of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. [With Ephemera].

Third Edition Revised and Continued. [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, St. John’s Gate, 1967. 23 cm x 15 cm. XXII, 307 pages, 47 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

123. [Cyprus Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

More Moves On An Eastern Chequerboard.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Lovat Dickson & Thompson Ltd., 1935. 21,5 cm x 14,5 cm. X, 268 pages, [1] page. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Some wormholes. Tearing, bumping and staining to spine and boards. Otherwise in fair condition.

124. [Cyprus Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

[Manuscript Annotations in:] Another uncorrected Proof Copy of “An Eastern Chequerboard” (without illustrations) / This is another, corrected version [see also item 30181 AB] with some very few manuscript annotations and corrections by Sir Harry Luke in pencil in the section on “Mt Athos in Peace and War” and “The Old Seraglio”].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Lovat Dickson Ltd., 1934. 22 cm x 14,5 cm. XI, 286 pages. Original Softcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal Working copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Creasing, cockling to pages and boards. Tearing, splitting to spine. Poor condition.

125. [Cyprus Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

An Eastern Chequerboard [This is Luke’s personal copy]. Illustrated [With thirty-two Plates].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Lovat Dickson Ltd., 1934. 22,5 cm x 15 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 290 pages, [1] page, 32 plates with photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Slight foxing to pages, fraying to dustjacket. Otherwise in very good condition.

126. [Cyprus Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

More Moves On An Eastern Chequerboard. Illustrated.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Lovat Dickson & Thompson Ltd., 1935. 21,5 cm x 14,5 cm. X, 268 pages, [1] page, 28 illustrations. Original Hardcover without dustjacket. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Very good condition.

127. [Cyprus Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

An Eastern Chequerboard. Illustrated.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Lovat Dickson Ltd., 1934. 22 cm x 14,5 cm. XII, 290 pages, [1] page, 32 plates. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Anther working copy with some minor annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Slight foxing to pages. Fraying to boards and spine. Starting hinge. Otherwise in fair condition.

128. [Cyprus Content] – [Luke, Harry Charles] Lukach, Harry Charles / Jardine, Douglas James / Goold-Adams, Sir Hamilton.

The Handbook Of Cyprus: Seventh Issue (1913).

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Edward Stanford, Ltd., 1913. 18,5 cm x 13 cm. XI, 307 pages, 12 illustrations, 5 maps and plans. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Boards and spine cockled. Otherwise in good condition.

129. [Cyprus Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

[Manuscript Annotations in:] Uncorrected Proof Copy of “An Eastern Chequerboard” (without illustrations) / This is the ultimately corrected version with many manuscript annotations and corrections by Sir Harry Luke in pencil throughout [possibly for a second edition of this work which was never published because all these changes did not apply in the first printed edition]. Extensive and detailed corrections and annotations especially in the two Cyprus – Chapters “A Seaport in Cyprus” (Chapter III) and “Le Doux Pays de Chypre” (Chapter IV).

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Lovat Dickson Ltd., 1934. 22 cm x 14,5 cm XII, 290, 1] pages lacking all 23 illustrations due to this book-block being Luke’s working proof-copy. Hardcover (private cloth). Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal working-copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Bumping to corners, fading to boards and spine. Otherwise in good condition.

130. [Palestine Content] – Luke, Harry Charles / Keith-Roach, Edward.

The Handbook Of Palestine And Trans-Jordan [With a manuscript letter signed / autographed letter signed (MLS / ALS) by Sir Edward Keith-Roach to Luke, dated Jerusalem, 13 th of July, 1930: “Dear Harry Charles, I was very sorry to learn of the death of your father for i know how attached you were to him….please accept my sympathy. We are now full steam ahead with the Handbook…I have sent off over 200 copies ….plus copies of the Times criticism ..I hope we shall be able to capture the early market…Ever yours Keith-Roach”]. Edited by Harry Charles Luke and Edward Keith-Roach. With Introductions By Sir John Chancelor And The Right Hon. Sir Herbert Samuel.

Second Edition, with Frontispiece and Map. [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Macmillan And Co., Ltd., 1930. 19 cm x 13,5 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 505 pages, (28) pages. Original Hardcover with gilt Seal of the Government of Palestine stamped to front board of the binding. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Some occasional wormholes to boards and beginning of the book. Slight tearing to front board. Otherwise in fair condition.

131. [Palestine Content] – [Luke, Harry Charles] Keith-Roach, Edward.

The Handbook Of Palestine And Trans-Jordan. With Introductions By Sir John Chancelor And The Right Hon. Sir Herbert Samuel.

Second Edition. [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Macmillan And Co., Ltd., 1930. 19 cm x 13 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 505 pages, (28) pages. Original Hardcover with gilt Seal of the Government of Palestine stamped to front board of the binding. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Fading, staining to boards and spine. Otherwise in good condition.

132. [Palestine Content] – Luke, Harry Charles / Keith-Roach, Edward.

The Handbook of Palestine. Edited by Harry Charles Luke and Edward Keith-Roach. With an Introduction By The Right Hon. Sir Herbert Samuel. Issued under the Authority of the Government of Palestine.

First Edition. [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Macmillan And Co., Ltd., 1922. 19 cm x 13 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 295 pages, (14) pages. With the stunning “Railway Map of Palestine & Transjordania” (64 cm wide x 54 cm high) folded in the pocket to the rear pastedown (stapled to the Map a corrigenda regarding “Kefr Jinnis”). Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Fading to boards and spine. Otherwise in good condition.

133. [Cyprus Content] – [Luke, Harry Charles] Lukach, Harry Charles / Jardine, Douglas James / Goold-Adams, Sir Hamilton.

The Handbook Of Cyprus: Seventh Issue (1913).

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Edward Stanford, Ltd., 1913. 18 cm x 12,5 cm. XI, 307 pages, 12 illustrations, 4 maps and plans. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Some foxing to pages, slight fading to boards and spine. Otherwise in good condition.

134. [Cyprus Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

Cyprus Under The Turks: 1571-1878. A Record based on the Archives of the English Consulate in Cyprus under the Levant Company and After.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, C. Hurst & Company, 1969. 19 cm x 13 cm. Frontispiece, XI, 281 pages, 1 map. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Fading to dustjacket. Otherwise in very good condition.

135. [Miscellaneous Harry Luke] – Luke, Harry Charles.

In The Margin Of History.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., No date. [c.1933]. 20,5 cm x 13,5 cm. XIV, 270 pages, 16 plates, 12 maps and plans. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Exlibris of Giuseppe Catalani to front pastedown. Some rubbing to spine, slight bumping to corners. Otherwise in good condition.

136. [Miscellaneous Harry Luke] – Luke, Harry Charles.

In The Margin Of History.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Lovat Dickson Ltd., 1933. 20 cm x 14 cm. XIV, 270 pages, 16 plates, 12 maps and plans. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Some rubbing, fading to boards and spine. Fraying to dustjacket. Otherwise in good condition.

137. [Cyprus Content] – Luke, Harry Charles / Jardine, Douglas James / Goold-Adams, Sir Hamilton.

The Handbook Of Cyprus: Seventh Issue (1913). [With manuscript letter by Harry Luke on Stationery of Government House, Cyprus]. With Maps and Plans and twelve Illustrations from Photographs by Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Edward Stanford, Ltd., 1913. 19,5 cm x 13,5 cm. XI, 307 pages, 12 illustrations, 5 maps and plans (includes the beautiful, coloured map of Cyprus). Original Hardcover / Privately bound full morocco with gilt ornament to board, gilt lettering to spine and raised bands. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Some rubbing, bumping to boards and spine. Otherwise in good condition.

138. [Cyprus Content] – [Luke, Harry Charles] Hill, Sir George.

A History Of Cyprus: Volume I, II, III and IV. I: To the Conquest by Richard Lion Heart; II: The Frankish Period, 1192-1432; III: The Frankish Period, 1432-1571; IV: The Ottoman Province, The British Colony, 1571-1948. Four volumes (Complete).

Digital Reprint of the Cambridge University Press Edition (1940). [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. 23 cm x 16 cm. Pagination: Volume I: XVIII, 352 pages, 16 plates, 3 maps; Volume II: XL, 496 pages, 6 plates, 7 illustrations; Volume III: VI, 702 pages, 14 plates, 4 illustrations, 2 maps; Volume IV: XXXI, 640 pages, 17 plates, map. Original Hardcover. Two corners bumped on Volume IV front board and some mild signs of foxing to cloth. Otherwise this set is in excellent condition.

139. [Cyprus Content] – [Luke, Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Vintage wedding photograph of Harry Luke and Joyce Evelyn Fremlin (daughter of Henry James Leigh Fremlin and his wife, Maud Evelyn Deane). The wedding photograph was taken in 1918, at Larnaca, shortly after the wedding – ceremony “in the little Anglican Church of S.Helena” (C&M, II, 44). At the time, Luke was still commissioner of Famagusta (1918-1920).

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. [Famagusta], 1918. 23 cm x 17 cm. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

140. [Sierra Leone Content] – [Luke, Harry / Lukach, Harry] Edward, Prince of Wales / Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew.

Vintage Photograph of Harry Luke with Edward, Prince of Wales, 1925, Sierra Leone. [at Municipal Garden Park in Sierra Leone]. Photograph taken by Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Sierra Leone, 1925. 14 cm x 19 cm. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

141. [Sierra Leone Content] – [Luke, Harry / Lukach, Harry] / Probyn, Sir Leslie.

Vintage Photograph of Harry Luke together with Sir Leslie Probyn, Governor of Sierra Leone from 1908-1910 (dated verso “Freetown, 1910”). The photograph shows a very young Harry Luke and was taken during Luke’s tenure as Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp to Sir Leslie Probyn.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1910. Large Octavo. Photograph itself: 14 cm x 19 cm. / Mounted on carton 20 cm x 26,5 cm. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

142. [Pacific Content] – [Luke, Harry / Lukach, Harry / Sir Harry Luke].

Easter Island [Typescript / Manuscript – Proof – Pad of Harry Luke – with his personal note and corrections on the article on Easter Island which he prepared during and after his visit in April and May 1952 for “The Geographical Journal” (published subsequently in Volume CXX, Part 4, 1954)].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. [London], [1952]. Octavo. 32 pages. Stapled. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

143. [Family History of Sir Harry Luke / Zamarski] – [Luke, Harry / Lukach, Harry / Joseph Harry Lukach (from Detroit, Michigan) / Eugenie Zamarski / Ludwig Johann Carl Zamarski (Publisher and Engraver from Vienna)].

Scrapbook with Genealogy / Family History / Large amount of Newspaper – Cuttings from the early days of J.H.Lukach’s marriage to Eugenie Zamarski in Vienna to the time of the move to New York. Including several pages of articles Harry Lukach wrote for a New York Newspaper and a wonderful postcard of the “S.S.Celtic” on which Luke travelled to his first job in New York in 1903. He writes that the Celtic is approaching Queenstown (Cobh) / Including Newspaper cuttings of Harry Luke’s father’s business with the London branch Hanover Fire Insurance Company of New York / Ephemera of The Lawrence Gas Company of Lancashire and Cheshire, Limited / Imuris Mines, Limited – Silver, Copper, Gold / Mining World / Interesting Ephemera like Calling cards and Invitation cards of New York Society extended to the Lukach family (for example calling cards of “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”, “The Manhattan Club” etc.) / Invitation by J.H.Lukach and his wife to the wedding of their daughter Lily Boys / etc. etc.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Wien / London / New York , c.1880 – 1930. Octavo. 100 pages. Hardcover. From the private collection of Eugenie Zamarski and Joseph Harry Lukach and subsequently their son: colonial official, governor, Lieutenant-Governor of Malta, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

144. [Palestine Content] – [Luke, Harry].

Collection of eight (8) manuscript letters Sir Harry Luke received during his appointment as acting High Commissioner to the Government of Palestine (July 1928 – December 1928) from his father (J.H.Luke), mother (Eugenie Luke, nee Zamarski) and close family. Especially his father discussing also political matters that effected Sir Harry Luke during his posting in Jerusalem [in one letter from November 30th, 1928 J.H.Luke lets his son know that ‘I obtained two copies of the White Papers dealing with the Wailing Wall incidents – J.H.Luke asks provokingly: “Who was the Dept. Dir. Comm. ?” [during which the incident happened]. Some of the envelopes include multiple pages, plus several letters from other members of family that were posted to Luke’s appointment in Palestine together in one envelope. The letter from his father is of significance because it reflects the conversations Sir Harry Luke had with his father about the time during his posting as High Commissioner in Palestine.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / Jerusalem, 1928. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

145. [Sierra Leone Content] – [Luke, Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Collection of twentyone (21) letters to Sir Harry Luke during his posting as colonial secretary in Freetown / Sierra Leone (1924 – 1928). Twelve (12) of the letters are from J.H.Luke (Sir Harry’s father) and he discusses with him, as usual very opinionated, not only family matters but also politics, matters relating to the colonial administration. Interestingly J.H.Luke also follows and influences the career of his son Harry by alerting him in a letter from April, 2nd, 1928 of the fact ‘that the Chief Secretaryship of Palestine has become vacant by the appointment of Colonel Symes as Resident at Aden….’ / In another letter from April 13th, 1928, J.H.Luke writes to his son Harry: ‘I am glad you took time to consider the Transjordan post – until you heard of the vacancy in Palestine; / He also informs him that he heard that ‘Guggisberg [that was Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg] was offered the Governorship of British Guiana (before the change in the Constitution) which he declined’. / In another letter he informs his son that ‘The rumours about Guggisberg going to Newfoundland have been contradicted in the Times’ / J.H. Luke also thanks his son for the interesting lecture on Slavery in Sierra Leone. / The other letters contain more poltical talk, society talk (often a mixture of both when for example J.H.Luke talks about the marriage of the former Miss Janet Phillips to a member of the British diplomatic corps, Leander McCormick-Goodhart). Four of the letters are from Luke’s mother one from a friend called Amelie and one from his sister Lily.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / Sierra Leone, 1928. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

146. [Sierra Leone Content] – [Luke, Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Collection of 16 letters (often multipage – letters) from Sir Harry Luke’s employed nanny who looked after the children while Sir Harry and his wife were posted in Sierra Leone. One letter also from Joyce Fremlin (that is Mrs. Luke) back to the Nanny. The letters are filled with extensive reports of the development of Sir Harry Luke’s children, Peter Luke and Michael Luke. / Trips to Alt-Aussee in Austria are talked about / Local situations in London etc./ The children Peter and Michael have included handwritten, often heartbreaking letters to their parents diplomatic posting in Africa while they were left behind in England. An interesting look into the life and often emotional hardship of british diplomats in the foreign / colonial service of the early 20th century. The collection also includes seven private photographs.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Alt-Aussee / London, 1927. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

147. [Cyprus Content] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Vintage Photograph / Original Portrait of a roughly 30 year old Luke, only a few years into his diplomatic career in the British Colonial Service, during his Cyprus – Posting as Private secretary to the new governor, Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams and his subsequent service as interpreter on HM Cruiser ‘Doris’ and “During several extensions of his period on loan as a political officer with the eastern Mediterranean Fleet [in which] Luke was involved [under Rosslyn Wemyss and de Robeck] in the administration of the islands of Mudros and Lemnos during the Gallipoli campaign” (Holland).

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. [London], c.1914. Board: 20 cm wide x 27.8 cm high / Image: 9.5 cm wide x 14.3 cm high. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

148. [Malta Content] – [Luke, Sir Harry / Lukach, Harry].

Correspondance of 10 letters between Sir Harry Luke and Commander J.R. Clay of Clay’s Marine Steering Gear Limited on behalf of his father J.H.Luke, who was a partner in the company and held a patent on Steering Gear used in the ships of the ‘White Star Line’ from which J.H. Luke hoped to get an income. Sir Harry took over the correspondance from his father who fell ill during the year 1930. The collection of letters is very interesting in regard of the company’s relation ot The Stottpool Steamship Company’ – the fate of the company being discussed in the paper as ‘COMPANY WITHOUT CAPITAL’ – Nothing coming in or going out (Owner were: J.H.Luke / Sir A. Henry Mc Mahon / Comm. J.R.Clay / Lord Southborough / Sir Harry receives information from Commander Clay in a letter from July 17th, 1930 regarding the fact that ‘We have not had any further orders for the Gear, but as previously mentioned to you there is another Motor Vessel similar to the ’″Britannic” building in Belfast for the White Star Line, and we should be able to get the order for her’. The correspondance goes into detail: ‘You will note from the pamphlet which i prepared that the new helm order will become law on the 30th of June 1931. When in Belfast on the trials of the “Brittanic” I met one of the Committee of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea…..He represents the Gyro Compass Company in London and i hopeto bring him to see you as I consider he will be able to help us considerably by recommending the adoption of the Steering Gear Device.’ / The correspondance mainly between Liverpool and Sir Harry Luke’s summer – address in Alt-Aussee, Steiermark, Austria. / The correspondance also includes a manuscript letter in which Sir Harry writes about his fathers illness and wonders if it is really worthwhile to renew the patent in light of the fact ‘that for so many years hardly any line except th White Star Line has adopted the Gear’. [The collection also includes a further 8 letters and also the papers of the estate of Sir Harry’s father. Sir Harry corresponds with his families solicitor, Oliver Dayrell Paget Paget-Cooke and besides the technicalities of the estate also encourages him to visit Malta / one page also on stationery of “The Palace – Malta”].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

149. [Pacific Content] – [Luke, Harry Sir / Lukach, Harry] Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton.

Eight – page – Manuscript letter (MLS) to Sir Harry together with a 27-page manuscript-evaluation of local personnell at Government House (Fiji) as well as local politicians and possible agitators in Fiji and the British Western Pacific Territories from Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton, in his capacity as Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the British Western Pacific Territories. This letter and the manuscript evaluations were sent by Richards on July 10th, 1938, on Stationery from Government House (Fiji) in order to inform Luke of the special situation of the posting before Sir Harry would take over the post (from 1938 – 1942). Very intriguing insights into colonial portraiture of possible troublemakers in the colonial service, excellent service men, clerks, and also recommendations for promotions etc. Arthur Richards evaluation of Sir Alport Barker, owner of ‘The Fiji Times & Herald’ is exemplary for the opinionated report to Sir Harry and one of the remarkable reports on ‘European Members of the Legislative Council on Fiji and the British Western Pacific Territories: ‘Aplort Barker – Has been an elected member for about twelve years, ex-mayor of Suva, owns the Fiji Times = Herald – Member of Executive Council / Has a small-minded, narrow outlook partly the result of physical disability. Lame from early days owing to infantile paralysis. Very anxious to get a knighthood. He has an intimate knowledge of local affairs and is often useful. He could be more useful if he were not so petty and spiteful.Very sensitive of slights, real on imaginary. / Apolosi [that was Apolosi Nawai] – Arthur Richards describes him as follows: ‘Apolosi – A man of the people. Fijian agitator & leader. The John the Baptist of a possible future. An ignorant misguided man with a great natural flair for speaking. Can sway words + is to some extent feared by the Chiefs because of his influence. The papers on him are worth reading. He is at present banished to Rotuma but the term expires at the end of 1939, when despite filaria + increasing age (he is well over 50) he will be a man to be watched. / Arthur Richards goes on to report on the ‘Council of Chiefs (Fiji)’’ where matters of interest to the Fijian people are discussed, resolutions are passed and answers are given’ – He informs Sir Harry that ‘The Council has been postponed until Oct. 18th [1938] to enable you to preside. The position of Governor carries immense prestige with the Fijians’. Richards also informs Luke that ‘no ladies, except the Governor’s wife should be present at the opeimus’. In total Arthur Richards talks about c. 32 people in his evaluations and he also gives Sir Harry Luke some information on the Coconut Estates on Fiji, Mines, Suva Yacht Club etc. He goes on to talk about Sir Harry Luke’s arrival and swearing in as governor and taking the oath ‘the whole being relayed over the wireless’ / ‘I assure you that the whole of Fiji + much of the Western Pacific will be listening in, so make a good speech.’ / Magnificent, confidential report between two important representatives of the British Empire during a very sensitive period of world history.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Suva (Fiji), Government House, 1938. Octavo / Quarto From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

150. [Palestine Content] – [Luke, Harry / Lukach, Harry] / Pirie-Gordon, Harry.

Fantastic letter from Harry Pirie-Gordon to Sir Harry Luke’s father, helping him to solve an issue regarding a Napoleon-letter / Correspondence between Professor Jean la Cecilia (Professeur d’Anglais au Lycee de Foix), J.H.Luke, the editor of THE TIMES and subsequently a letter from J.H.Luke reporting the outcome to Sir Harry Luke, regarding an original Napoleon – letter, and Napoleon’s Services to European Peace. Interesting correspondence and newspaper – clipping of the published article as a consequence of the correspondence. With some interesting, patriotic remarks. Also included a wonderful letter from J.H.Luke to his son Harry Luke in Palestine on occasion of Luke regarding the Napoleon-letter-incident Priri-Gordon helped him with and to express his disappointment that Harry and family can not holiday with him because he is succeeding (or standing in for) Lord Plumer [that is Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer] in his role as High Commissioner of the British mandate in Palestine: “The one …i can find in that ‘acting’ for a man like Lord Plumer at the outset will add to your prestige…”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / Cap de la Ville (Foix), 1928. Octavo. Five letters in total. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.