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Sketches in Afghaunistan. London: Henry Graves & Co., and W.H. Allen & Co., [1842]. Folio (54 x 37cm). Letterpress title printed in blue incorporating list of plates, tinted lithographic title, dedication leaf, and 25 tinted plates, by Louis and Charles Haghe. (Small spot to blank margin of 5th plate, 16th plate slightly loose.) Publisher's green half morocco, lettered in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed).
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JAMES ATKINSON (1780-1852)
Sketches in Afghaunistan. London: Henry Graves & Co., and W.H. Allen & Co., [1842]. Folio (54 x 37cm). Letterpress title printed in blue incorporating list of plates, tinted lithographic title, dedication leaf, and 25 tinted plates, by Louis and Charles Haghe. (Small spot to blank margin of 5th plate, 16th plate slightly loose.) Publisher's green half morocco, lettered in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed).
One of the earlist collections of views of Afghanistan. Atkinson, the celebrated translator of Firdausi's Shh Nmeh and one of the first Europeans to explore Afghanistan, was one of the pioneers of oriental studies. The lithographers Louis and Charles Haghe were involved in a number of important publications in the 1840s and '50s and are celebrated for the particular high quality of their work. Abbey Travel 508; Tooley (1954) 73; Colas 173; Lipperheide 1493.
Sketches in Afghaunistan. London: Henry Graves & Co., and W.H. Allen & Co., [1842]. Folio (54 x 37cm). Letterpress title printed in blue incorporating list of plates, tinted lithographic title, dedication leaf, and 25 tinted plates, by Louis and Charles Haghe. (Small spot to blank margin of 5th plate, 16th plate slightly loose.) Publisher's green half morocco, lettered in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed).
One of the earlist collections of views of Afghanistan. Atkinson, the celebrated translator of Firdausi's Shh Nmeh and one of the first Europeans to explore Afghanistan, was one of the pioneers of oriental studies. The lithographers Louis and Charles Haghe were involved in a number of important publications in the 1840s and '50s and are celebrated for the particular high quality of their work. Abbey Travel 508; Tooley (1954) 73; Colas 173; Lipperheide 1493.