The Costumes Of The Various Tribes Portraits Of Ladies Of Rank Celebrated Princes And Chiefs Views

by James Rattray Lieutenant

$36,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Contemporary full red morocco, gilt decoration on front and rear boards with gilt title on front, spine gilt in six compartments, gilt title in second compartment, marble endpapers. The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan and an important colour-plate book issued in the early days of the Great Game, in a magnificent contemporary morocco binding. Published in London between 1847 and 1848, this important work was one of the first texts to chronicle the British

• Binding: Leather

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