Chitral. The story of a minor siege

by George Robertson

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 2 , 368; frontispiece and 32 plates, many after photographs, 5 maps 2 folding ; publisher's red cloth gilt; spine a little sunned and headband worn, text clean and sound, very good. The siege of Chitral was an event at the tail end of the Great Game, in which the death of a local ruler triggered a cascade of assassinations and power struggle, concluding with a one-month siege on Chitral

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