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Anbieter: Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V., Amsterdam, Niederlande
London, 1987. 523 pp. Boards,d/j.Reprint of the 1895 edition.
London 1895, Bentley. Black cloth, very good, 523p.,6 illus- trations, bookplate, head and spine tail worn, chipped, damp stain to ca. 1/2 inch of each plate; illustration unaffected no loss,lower portion of front cover & corner bit blistered. Bookplate, leading edge of covers cloth rubbed. An as is copy only. Covers on the road to Kabul, arrival, reception, Afghan hospitals, dwellings, bazaars, ethics, surgeons and physicans. The march to Turkestan, the Amir, life in Turke- estan, inhabitants of Afghanistan, birth of Prince Mahomed Omer, Amir's conversion, first sitting,Amir as an art critic the levee on New Year's day, young princes, return journey to Kabul, life in Kabul, Amir's illness, royal patients, Ka- bul winter, Spring, on leave, cholera &. A fascinating insi- de look at real life written by the Amir Abdurrahman of Afghanistan's personal English physician. Always a R A R E book!.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1895
Anbieter: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Very good. 1895, London, Richard Bentley and Son, ppxvi + 523, black and white illustrations and plates complete, half red morocco over marbled boards. Rebound by Mudie, so without the trophy of arms on the upper cover.
Verlag: London Bentley, 1895
Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition. 8vo, xvii, 523pp., portrait frontispiece, title-page vignette, 3 plates, original green pictorial cloth gilt, short tear to head of spine, joints cracked but firm, a very good copy. A British doctor, Gray served as surgeon to Abdur Rahman Khan, ruler of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901. He was one of a number of men recruited in England to provide advice and services to the Khan as part of his push to modernise Afghanistan. Wilber 812.