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ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart.
An account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies, in Persia, Tartary, and India; comprising a view of the Afghaun nation, and a history of the Dooraunee monarchy.
Richard Bentley, London 1842. New and Revised edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxx, 422; xii, 440pp., 2 hand-coloured lithographed frontispieces, lithographed plate (foxed), large folding engraved map in pocket at end, later calf, covers with gilt fillet border, spines in six compartments, morocco labels to second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands marbled edges, a fine copy.
Elphinstone was appointed ambassador to the Afghan court of Cabul in the middle of 1808. Although unsuccessful as an envoy, he came away stored with information, and already nursing that germ of frontier policy of which he was afterwards to be the fruitful founder and exponent. An Account of the kingdom of Caubul continued to inform British policy on the north-western frontier until the 1840's. (DNB).
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