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Hardcover. 8vo. pp 229. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's black cloth with red lettering at spine. ISBN: 9780252036514 Fine in fine dust jacket.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Folio. [6 = frontispiece, title, dedication], 18, 16pp. Hand-tinted (green and yellow-ochre) lithographic frontispiece; hand-tinted lithographic title; 23 unnumbered hand-tinted lithographic scenes (one tint) with captions; 1 text engraving (minarets at Ghuznee). Later full forest green pebbled morocco over wooden boards, with floral motifs elaborately tooled in gilt; recessed diamond lozenge at both boards; gilt-tooled spine; gilt dentelles; light blue paper endleaves with gilt stars; edges gilt and gauffered; green silk ribbon marker. Light to moderate foxing throughout (more so at text leaves and at margins; most plates largely unaffected). A good or better copy, very handsomely bound. A collection of 23-hand colored lithographic plates based on sketches made during the opening campaign of the First Anglo-Afghan War by Sir Keith Alexander Jackson, a captain in the British Fourth Light Dragoons. The accompanying text prepared by Jackson is divided into fifteen sections which reference to the chief cities of the campaign, along with several important structures and the Bolan Pass region (present-day Pakistan). In his notes Jackson provides historical and topographical information in addition to details of the campaign. The British objective was to replace the current Afghan amir, Dost Mohammed Khan, who was thought too succeptible to Russian influence, with the more friendly Shah Shuja. The hand-colored frontispiece is descibed as a "Fac-simile of a drawing in colours found in the women's Anderoon [Pers. = harem apartments] at Ghuznee. just after the storming of that Fortress, supposed to be the Portrait of an Affghaun Exquisite [i.e., a dandy]." Following the lithographed dedication by Joseph Fowell Walton to the chairman and directors of the East India Company, the work opens with the detailed "Map of the Route of the Army of the Indus. 1839." After setting out from British India in December 1838, the British forces reached Quetta (Kwettah) in late March 1839 and proceeded through the Bolan Pass into Afghanistan. Kandahar fell on April 25, 1839, and the great fortress of Ghazni (Ghuznee) was captured on July 23 of that year. Beginning with Kabul (Caubul), the order of the lithographs and text reverses that of the campaign (excepting the views of Quetta, which appear just before those of Kandahar). The final view depicts a notable antiquity in the environs of Thatta (Tatta), a town near the mouth of the Indus River where the campaign began: surrounded by a compliment of Afghan guards, Sir Keith Alexander Jackson is seated in a folding chair as he sketches the ruins of the medieval tomb before him. An intreaguing melange of imperial propaganda and travelogue, the spirit of the enterprise is well expressed in Jackson's observation on the forifications at Kelat: "The citadel, though presenting a formidable appearance, from its towering height, offered but a fruitless resistance to the science with which it was assailed." Notes on the plates: Close inspection of the two digitized copies available via the Library of Congress (LC) and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) reveal several interesting points regarding the compliment of plates when compared with the detailed descriptions which appear in J. R. Abbey's standard reference, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. Apart from the map (listed separately), Abbey lists 27 lithographic plates. Including the frontispiece and title, our copy contains 25 plates, some of which cannot with certainty by matched with those in Abbey (see below). The order of plates differs significantly from Abbey, as well: the first twelve scenic plates in our copy correspond to Abbey nos. 16-27. As it turns out, like our copy, the copies in LC and BSB also contain 25 lithographs, with the same sequence of scenes, arranged in the same order. However, seven of the scenes in the BSB copy -- Ruined Tower on the River at Maidaum, Army Marching [Abbey 19]; Abdool Rahmun's Fort, after the Mines Were S.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Allom; Boys; Mackenzie and Walton (illustrator). An excellent and exceptionally scarce first edition imprint of this profusely illustrated work regarding the first Afghan War, presented in the original silk moire boards and complete with highly informative tinted lithograph illustrations. Very scarce. Folio. Collated complete with a hand coloured frontispiece, title page vignette, lithograph dedication to The East India Company, engraved map, vignette illustration to page twelve and twenty five tinted lithographed plates by Allom, Boys, Mackenzie & Walton. Plates printed using Hullmandel's patented Lithotint process. An extremely scarce imprint of the first edition, not found on Copac or in Abbey travel. Only two known records of this work at auction. Expertly rebacked in quarter morocco with original silk moire boards. It is extremely common for this particular work to be rebacked. The original decorative and desirable silk moire boards are still present. Sir Keith Alexander Jackson was a British officer, notably fighting in the First Anglo-Afghan War where he served as a Captain in the 4th Light Dragoons, integral to the campaign to replace pro-Russian Emir of Kabul with the pro-British Shah Shuja. This work 'Views in Affghaunistan' is considered Jackson's Magnum Opus.The work was published during the height of British successes in Afghanistan; prior to their withdrawal from the country and following on from this successful campaign. Jackson was granted a leave of absence, during which he was able to arrange the publication of this work. The work is highly regarded for the depth of historical and topographical information it provides, but it is the extremely detailed lithographic illustrations for which the work is most widely praised. The plates include not only pictorial information regarding the military campaigns in the area, but also a wider understanding of the Afghan culture and people. The work offered a previously unseen snapshot into the topography, culture and people of Afghanistan, as well as a firsthand account of the military campaign, including specific military engagements and the occasional lithograph of British officers. The work is not only beautifully illustrated, but an integral first hand account of a decisive military campaign, with this particular copy complete with fine plates. An exceptional copy of a firsthand account of significant historical value, complete with fine lithographic plates and presented in the original highly desirable moire silk boards. Expertly rebacked in quarter morocco with original silk moire boards. Externally smart with slight rubbing, resulting in some slight loss to the silk and to the morocco on the spine. Very light area of damp staining to lower extremity of front board. Marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just minor sunning to the extremities and the very occasion spot. Sunning to frontispiece. Evidence of professional repair to margin of frontispiece. Neat repair to extremity of text page entitled 'Ghuznee'. Very small closed tear to extremity of page three. The plates are in fine condition. Very Good Indeed. book.