Lot 85
  • 85

Hart, Captain Lockyer Willis.

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Character and Costumes of Afghaunistan. London: Henry Graves and Company, 1843
first edition, folio (542 x 365mm.), hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title, lithographed dedication with coloured map of Sinde and Afghanistan on verso, letterpress description of the plates, 26 hand-coloured lithographed plates, most heightened with gum arabic, publisher's advertisement leaf at end, original green morocco-backed cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, some light spotting or stains to blanks or margins, a few margins of plates or interleaving blanks chipped, extremities a very little rubbed

Literature

Abbey, Travel 511; Colas 1380; Yakushi (1994) A291

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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Catalogue Note

a very good copy. This work includes views of mountain scenery, gorges, passes, portraits and fortresses drawn by Atkinson during the first Afghan war.