Arabie

11 pages, including a full-page sketch map. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a riveting account of French Expedition through Afghanistan containing valuable information on the geography, the ethnography, ancient monuments, and the influence of human races on the country, accompanied by a full-age sketch route map and amazing photographic plates depicting the entrance to Afghanistan at Islam Kala, the Bala Hissar in Herat, Bulalah near Bamiyan, the Bamiyan valley, and Turkomans. The expedition party commenced its journey from Islam Kala, entering Herat, then proceeded to Kabul by the southern road, passing almost entirely through purely "Afghan" country, through Farah, Girishk, Kandahar, and Ghazni. Among many ancient monuments and places visited some include: the monuments of Herat, Shah Rukh Tomb, Tomb of Abu Ismail Khwaja Ansari at the great pilgrimage center of Gazarga, the mausoleum of Dost Muhammad Khan - the Great Amir of Afghanistan, remain of Ghaznavid, monument at Kala-i-Bist,and Bamiyan archaeological site. With fascinating remarks on Afghan dances, Durrani tribes, Muslim and Ghaznavid art, Buddhist occupation of Bamiyan and Mongol invasion of Bamiyan.