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THE HON. ELPHINSTONE MOUNTSTUART (1779-1859)
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India. London: A. Strahan for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown and J. Murray, 1815 (plates watermarked 1812). 4° (286 x 216mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 13 aquatint plates, all but one hand-coloured, 2 engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, including one large folding map, 3-line errata. (Occasional light soiling and spotting, tear and offsetting to large folding map, light browning to smaller map, small crease to outer margin causing tiny tear to about 15 pages.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, extremities restored, scuffed). Provenance: Sir Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff, K.C.M.G. (1863-1926, ownership inscription, Copenhagen, 1898) -- Sir Clive Milnes-Coates of Helperby (1879-1971, ownership inscription and book label).
FIRST EDITION OF AN HISTORICAL WORK ON AFGHANISTAN with fine hand-coloured aquatint plates. Mountstuart Elphinstone was appointed ambassador to the Afghan court of Kabul in the middle of 1808. Although unsuccessful as an envoy, he came away 'stored with information, and already nursing that germ of frontier policy of which he was afterwards to be the fruitful founder and exponent'; he 'continued to inform British policy on the north-western frontier until the 1840s' (ODNB). The present copy belonged to Sir Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff who was the senior British diplomat in Tehran during the Persian Constitutional Revolution in 1905-7. Abbey Travel 504; Colas 960; Lipperheide 1483; Tooley 209.
An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India. London: A. Strahan for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown and J. Murray, 1815 (plates watermarked 1812). 4° (286 x 216mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 13 aquatint plates, all but one hand-coloured, 2 engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, including one large folding map, 3-line errata. (Occasional light soiling and spotting, tear and offsetting to large folding map, light browning to smaller map, small crease to outer margin causing tiny tear to about 15 pages.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, extremities restored, scuffed). Provenance: Sir Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff, K.C.M.G. (1863-1926, ownership inscription, Copenhagen, 1898) -- Sir Clive Milnes-Coates of Helperby (1879-1971, ownership inscription and book label).
FIRST EDITION OF AN HISTORICAL WORK ON AFGHANISTAN with fine hand-coloured aquatint plates. Mountstuart Elphinstone was appointed ambassador to the Afghan court of Kabul in the middle of 1808. Although unsuccessful as an envoy, he came away 'stored with information, and already nursing that germ of frontier policy of which he was afterwards to be the fruitful founder and exponent'; he 'continued to inform British policy on the north-western frontier until the 1840s' (ODNB). The present copy belonged to Sir Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff who was the senior British diplomat in Tehran during the Persian Constitutional Revolution in 1905-7. Abbey Travel 504; Colas 960; Lipperheide 1483; Tooley 209.
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