2 vol., first edition, 19 lithographed portraits, all on india paper and mounted, some with foxing (mostly marginal), frontispiece in vol.1 lightly offset on title, near contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper, bookplate of Christopher Tower and book-label of Mikhail Baskhanov, contemporary tan calf, gilt, spines gilt, marbled edges, spines a little rubbed and faded but a good copy, [Yakushi L18], 8vo, 1846. *** The author accompanied Alexander Burnes on his mission to Bokhara in 1832 and later served as his political assistant during Burnes's fateful mission to Kabul in 1838.
2 vol., first edition, 19 lithographed portraits, all on india paper and mounted, some with foxing (mostly marginal), frontispiece in vol.1 lightly offset on title, near contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper, bookplate of Christopher Tower and book-label of Mikhail Baskhanov, contemporary tan calf, gilt, spines gilt, marbled edges, spines a little rubbed and faded but a good copy, [Yakushi L18], 8vo, 1846. *** The author accompanied Alexander Burnes on his mission to Bokhara in 1832 and later served as his political assistant during Burnes's fateful mission to Kabul in 1838.
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