Travel
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.
Longman, London 1815. First edition. 4to., xxvii, 675pp., 2 maps (1 large folding), 13 hand-coloured aquatint costume plates and 1 uncoloured aquatint view, occasional light foxing and offsetting, modern half calf gilt by Aquarius, red morocco label, an excellent copy.
The Embassy was sent to Caubul out of fear that the French were going to expand the seat of the war to Asia following a French Embassy to Persia. The book contains a wealth of information, topographical, ethnographic and scientific. Abbey Travel 504; Colas 960; Lipperheide 1483.1
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