O'KELLY, Franz Freiherrn Mac Nevin

8vo., in original brown morocco ornately lettered and decorated in gilt. Spine ruled, lettered and decorated gilt in compartments. Bevelled edges. All edges gilt, ornate gilt-on-white endpapers (double eagle). 158pp., facsimile letter facing title. 3 tissue protected portraits from photographs. From the “Officiers Bibliothek. Regiment von Milde No 17. K. u. K. Infanterie“ with shelf number to spine, and stamps to half title and title pages. Beautifully bound copy of this scarce book with the interesting provenance of the Von Milde Regiment Library. Edges a little rubbed, library numbers neatly inside and to spine. Portraits of :Oberst Ludwig Prieger, Herzog Wilhelm von Württemberg, Erzherzog Johann Salvator.Franz Wilhelm Mac Nevin O'Kelly von Aughrim (1849 - 1918): Major of the Landwehr in the Imperial Austrian Army, a Gentleman of the Chamber to the Emperor of Austria and owner of Ballynahown (Ireland). Sourced by Wiki Trees from the Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch.IN THE SUMMER OF 1878, the improbably named Franz Mac-Nevin O’Kelly, a twenty-nineyear-old infantry officer of the Austro-Hungarian army, was called for service in theBalkans. On 29 July, feeling like a “pioneer,” he crossed the Sava River that separated the Habsburg monarchy from the Ottoman territory of Bosnia. Subsequently, after several months of unanticipated resistance, the region was “pacified.” Over the next forty years, hundreds of thousands of Austro-Hungarian citizens—troops, civil servants, tourists, colonists, and the Kaiser—crossed the Sava into what were called the occupied lands... (Healy 2020).