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Author: Elphinstone, Mountstuart
Title: An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies, in Persia, Tartary, and India, a View of the Afgaun Nation, and a History of the Dooraunee Monarchy
Place Published: London
Publisher:Richard Bentley
Date Published: 1842
Description:

2 volumes. xxx, 422; xii, 440 pp. Three engravings, including two hand-colored frontispieces, large folding map in front pocket of first volume. (8vo) original blind-stamped plum cloth, rebacked in burgundy morocco with gilt lettering, new endpapers. Revised Edition.

Elphinstone's important survey of Afghanistan. Elphinstone (1779-1859) was appointed ambassador to the Afghan court of Kabul in 1808, and although his mission of thwarting French ambitions in the region was largely ineffectual, his reflections on his journey there were very influential in the British government: "...Elphinstone penned a masterly state paper, which it is not too much to call the foundation of all but continuous subsequent policy" (DNB, 1888). The map by Lt. John Macartney, " A Map of the Kingom of Caubal, and some of the Neighboring Countries... (24x30") is a monumental achievement in itself, stretching from the Punjab to Persia, and Samarkand in the north to Beloochestan in the south.

Rebacked, endpapers renewed, some soiling to cloth; foxing, some pencil notes in margins; very good.