Captain Lockyer Willis Hart | Character and Costumes of Afghaunistan, 1843

Captain Lockyer Willis Hart

Character and Costumes of Afghaunistan. London: Henry Graves and Company, 1843

FIRST EDITION, folio (538 x 370mm.), tinted lithographed pictorial title, dedication with map of Sinde and Afghanistan on verso, letterpress description of the plates, 26 tinted lithographed plates, publisher's advertisement leaf at end, original green cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, collector’s folding cloth case, some light spotting, a few margins of plates or interleaving blanks chipped, neatly rebacked in green cloth, modern endpapers, corners slightly rubbed

This work was published as a companion volume to Atkinson's Sketches in Afghaunistan, 1842 (see lot 14), which explains why the letterpress is headed "Second Series".

PROVENANCE:

Robert and Maria Travis, book label, sale in these rooms, 26 May 2005, lot 149