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SALE, Florentia, Lady. A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2, London: John Murray, 1843. 12° (200 x 120mm). 2 lithographed plans, one folding, advertisement slip tipped in at the beginning and with the final 6 advertisement leaves. (Folding plan with short repaired tears, some spotting). Original pictorial cloth gilt (rebacked with original spine laid down, new endpapers). FIRST EDITION of Lady Sale's eye-witness account of the first Afghan war and a long description of her captivity by the Afghans.
With 4 other works in 7 volumes, J. W. B. Money's Java; or How to Manage a Colony (London, 1861, 2 vols.), Major Snodgrass's Narrative of the Burmese War (London, 1827), Albert Fytche's Burma Past and Present (London, 1878, 2 vols.), Leitch Ritchie's The British World in the East (London, 1846, 2 vols.). (8)
With 4 other works in 7 volumes, J. W. B. Money's Java; or How to Manage a Colony (London, 1861, 2 vols.), Major Snodgrass's Narrative of the Burmese War (London, 1827), Albert Fytche's Burma Past and Present (London, 1878, 2 vols.), Leitch Ritchie's The British World in the East (London, 1846, 2 vols.). (8)
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