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[ASIA] - ELPHINSTONE (Mountstuart)
Paris, Nepveu, 1817.
See original version (French)
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[ASIA] - ELPHINSTONE (Mountstuart)
Paris, Nepveu, 1817.
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €800
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Description
[ASIA] - ELPHINSTONE (Mountstuart)
Paris, Nepveu, 1817.
Tableau du Royaume de Caboul et de ses dépendances, dans la Perse, la Tartarie et l'Inde, offrant les mœurs, usages et costumes de cet empire.
3 vol. in-18 (13,3 × 8,6 cm), bradel blue paper-covered boards, red title-piece and gilded tomaison (contemporary boards).
Original French edition, translated by M. Breton from the English original published in 1815.
It is illustrated with 14 stipple-engraved and coloured plates.
Mountstuart Elphinstone, a British diplomat, was sent in 1809 by the government of Calcutta to establish a treaty of defence with Kabul, against Napoleon; beginning with a brief history of Afghanistan which ends with the arrival of the English in 1809, he delivers at once an account of a diplomatic mission, a documentary account and a literary account.
ATTACHED
BERNIER (François). Voyages [...] containing a description of the States of the Great Mogul. Amsterdam, David Paul Marret, 1724[-1723]. 2 vol. in-12 (16 × 9.5 cm), marbled calf, ornate smooth spine, red title-pieces and tan tomaisons, red edges (contemporary binding).
New edition, illustrated with a repeated title-frontispiece, 3 folding maps, 8 plates including 6 folding plates, all engraved on copper.
Volume II, upper spine split, scuffing to second plate with spotting; tear with loss to 3rd map, Sources de Nil, II, p. 343.
Provenance
1. Cl.-J.-B. Huet de Froberville (ex-libris printed 1861).
2. d'Andlau (old manuscript bookplate on the title).
Bibliography
1. Chadenat, no. 822. Lipperheide, no. 1483.
See original version (French)
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