Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 75

ELPHINSTONE (MOUNTSTUART)
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India; Comprising a View of the Afghan Nation and A History of the Dooraunee Monarchy, FIRST EDITION, Longman, Hurst, 1815

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,500

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

ELPHINSTONE (MOUNTSTUART)

An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India; Comprising a View of the Afghan Nation and A History of the Dooraunee Monarchy, FIRST EDITION, 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates, one uncoloured aquatint plate, 2 engraved maps (one large folding, both hand-coloured in outline), errata slip, occasional spotting, contemporary calf gilt, covers detached with loss to head of spine [Abbey Travel 504; Colas 960; Lipperheide 1483; Yakushi E63], 4to, Longman, Hurst, 1815

Footnotes

Elphinstone's important account of Afghanistan, the Punjab and the north-west, based on his own 1808 mission to Kabul and information provided by other nineteenth century visitors to the region, "continued to inform British policy on the north-western frontier until the 1840s" (ODNB). The fine costume plates, drawn after Robert Grindlay and local Indian artists, are described by Abbey as being "of excellent quality".

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.

Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

CORNELIUS, MATTHEWS, editor. 1817-1889. The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends of the American Indians.

CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. [Dictionarium.] Calepinus Ad librum. Mos est putidas.... Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, January 3, 1509.

HEARN, LAFCADIO. 1850-1904. [Japanese Fairy Tales.] Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith, [But Tokyo: T. Hasegawa,] [c.1931].

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. 1899-1961. PUTNAM, SAMUEL, translator. Kiki's Memoirs. Paris: Sign of the Black Manikin, 1930.