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History of the War in Afghanistan.

A history of the First Anglo-Afghan War: the British campaigns against Doost Mohammad Khan, the insurrection and fall of Kabul, etc. John Clark Marshman called it 'the most interesting of all works which have hitherto appeared on British Indian history'.

Sir John William Kaye (1814-1876) served in the British Army in India before returning to Britain and serving in the India Office while producing several great works of contemporary British Indian history of which this was the first.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm); armorial bookplates to pastedowns, discreet booksellers ticket to pastedowns; nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards spine in six compartments with gilt morocco lettering piece, all edges speckled, touch of rubbing, a near-fine set; xii, 660; vi, 690pp.

Ghani p201; Yakushi K38.
$34,131.51

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History of the War in Afghanistan.—

$113,771.69

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A history of the First Anglo-Afghan War: the British campaigns against Doost Mohammad Khan, the insurrection and fall of Kabul, etc. John Clark Marshman called it 'the most interesting of all works which have hitherto appeared on British Indian history'.

Sir John William Kaye (1814-1876) served in the British Army in India before returning to Britain and serving in the India Office while producing several great works of contemporary British Indian history of which this was the first.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm); armorial bookplates to pastedowns, discreet booksellers ticket to pastedowns; nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards spine in six compartments with gilt morocco lettering piece, all edges speckled, touch of rubbing, a near-fine set; xii, 660; vi, 690pp.

Ghani p201; Yakushi K38.