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20091349856PN. New. 2009. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
189530001895. Wood-engraving. 395mm by 295mm sheet. 'A Royal Patient. Nasrullah Khan the Amir's Second Son now on a visit to England having a tooth extracted at his bungalow near Kabul'. From 'The Graphic'.<br /> Related and unrelated text on the reverse. Some light foxing. Light toning on far right hand side of the sheet. unknown
20151358088PN. New. 2015. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
20141357783PN. New. 2014. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
20141357149PN. New. 2014. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
20131355553PN. New. 2013. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
20131356196PN. New. 2013. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
20141358081PN. New. 2014. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1958180912Kabul: Bureau of Afghan Publicity Cultural Relations Office Department of Press and Information 1958. First edition of this guide to Mohammad Zahir Shah's modernizing state with chapters on politics and diplomacy industry mineral deposits and many other topics. In the year of publication Prime Minister Daoud Khan became the first Afghan to address to the US Congress and President Eisenhower made a formal visit in 1959. Octavo. With 24 photographic half-tone plates. Original illustrated card wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in black and with green half-tone illustrations. Occasional contemporary green ink marks in margin. Covers marked contents evenly toned: very good. unknown
2011BN258342Taylor & Francis 2011. 2011. Afghanistan: to 2015 and Beyond Adelphi Text: english <br/><br/>Afghanistan: to 2015 and Beyond Adelphi Text: english Afghanistan / Krieg / Politik / USA - Dodge Toby Taylor & Francis unknown
20101350964PN. New. 2010. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1815222755London.: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown. First edition. 1815. xxi v-viii "Notice regarding the map" & list of plates 675pp errata leaf 2pp large hand coloured folding map mounted on linen and tipped onto a later leaf at rear and full-page map outlined in hand colour opp. p. 83 14 plates 13 hand-coloured: the frontispiece plate XIII bound opposite p 519; contemporary diced-calf boards 29 x 22 cm rebacked spine gilt-ruled in compartments with black title label gilt-lettered original grey endpapers marbled edges maps toned plates in very good condition some offsetting to the text and a couple of leaves creased scant spotting and some marginal staining costume plates unaffected the plate opp. p 376 with a tidemark and rather browned an early inked inscription to the front pastedown "Maria Hudson to Charles George Richardson June 1839" and another early owner "Gertrude Louisa Allen" to the title-page the name of a modern owner inked neatly to the front pastedown a good complete copy of a handsome work. Montstuart Elphinstone 1779 - 1859 was an administrator with the East India Company who in 1808 was sent by the British Indian authorities on a mission to Afghanistan for the purpose of concluding an agreement with the Afghan ruler Shah Shuja Durrani. His landmark account was the first major English study of the region and the fine costume plates offered the first detailed Western classification of Afghan tribes. . Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. hardcover
20111352327PN. New. 2011. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
20101351424PN. New. 2010. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
19362111902160501196same club 1936. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: B5 type printing 85p Northern Arabia map same club paperback
20111353215PN. New. 2011. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
18512047AG1851. London & New York J & F. Tallis 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 33.7 cm x 26 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. John Tallis 7 November 1817 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown
20111351936PN. New. 2011. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
20131356989PN. New. 2013. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
107237London HMSO; Harrison and Sons 1878-1881. . First editions; two volumes containing fifteen works 4to 33 x 21.5 cm; bookplates to pastedowns a occasional small chips to upper margin otherwise internally fine; first volume in half red morocco cloth boards gilt lettering to flat spine minor wear to extremities but otherwise a very good copy; second volume in half blue calf cloth boards gilt spine with gilt morocco lettering piece all edges gilt slight wear a little chipping to head and foot of spine shelf mark to spine otherwise a very good copy; vi 266; ii 27; 17; 37; 6; 9; 87; 14; 8; 31; 4; 14; iv 107; 87; v 165pp.<br /> A collection of fifteen works of government correspondence and dispatches charting the British relationship with Afghanistan and by extension Russia from 1863 to 1881 culminating in the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The 'Central Asian Question' the Great Game saw its denouement play out in the Second Second Anglo-Afghan War and following boundary negotiations in the 1880s and 90s.<br /><br />The letters and despatches contained in these works contain an enormous amount of detail about the politics economics and diplomacy of Britain and Afghanistan in this period in particular the war years of 1879-1881. Important figures such as James Bruce Sir Henry Rawlinson John Lawrence Henry Marion Durand Lord Mayo Robert Napier Edward Bulwer-Lytton Granville Leveson-Gower and Spencer Cavendish all penned or put their name to the letters and despatches in these volumes and reveal the attitudes of the British government at the time. What perhaps stands out the most is the fragility of the British temperament in regards to either real or imagined Russian influence in Afghanistan and the constant shuffling of Amirs in a vain attempt to turn Afghanistan into a puppet state. Although the military actions of the Second Anglo-Afghan War were considered successful by the British Government deposing Yaqub Khan and his brother Ayub Khan from the throne it was also vastly expensive to the tune of nearly 20 million pounds and did not result in any territorial gains or subjugation of the region.<br /><br />The owner who bound the first volume titled the spine 'Afghanistan Betrayed by Lord Beaconsfield to Russia'. This is a strong statement considering Afghanistan preserved its independence and status as a buffer zone following the evacuation of Kandahar and Afghanistan by the British Army. It is an even stronger statement given that the trigger of the conflict Britain's retaliation to Afghanistan hospitality to Russian envoys is widely understood to have been the Viceroy of India Lord Lytton's doing and in direct opposition to orders from Disraeli himself. Perhaps the accusation speaks most to the accentuated fears around Russia and the decline of the influence of the British Empire.<br /> London, HMSO; Harrison and Sons, 1878-1881. hardcover
20022090502113716531Not Available 2002. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
195686306Kabul; Munic: Royal Afghan Ministry of Education; Afghan Cultural Board 1956. Paperback. Octavo in orange-red wrappaers; b&w illus maps ports.; 95 pp. 21 cm.; very good copy; spine is sunned; wrappers are lightly to moderately worn; some soil and creases from handling; leaves are very lightly bumped at the bottom open corner; o/w pages are clean bright and free of marks and creases; a solid handsome copy. Scarce. In English. Royal Afghan Ministry of Education; Afghan Cultural Board paperback
19692092902143901399Gifu University Afghanistan Research Team 1969. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Gifu University Afghanistan Research Team paperback
19692092902143801383Gifu University Afghanistan Research Team 1969. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Gifu University Afghanistan Research Team paperback
20091350222PN. New. 2009. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
