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James Atkinson (1780-1852)
Sketches in Afghaunistan. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842.
2° (535 x 360mm). Tinted lithographic title and 25 plates after Atkinson, lithographic dedication, printed list of plates and final advertisement leaf. (Some leaves slightly spotted, some discolouration.) Contemporary morocco-backed cloth (rubbed).
Atkinson, a doctor by training and an accomplished Persian scholar, had accompanied the army of the Indus on its march to Kabul and returned to Bengal in 1841 before the massacre of the army of occupation. These illustrations were to accompany his narrative of the journey into what was then a little-known country. Abbey Travel 508.
Sketches in Afghaunistan. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1842.
2° (535 x 360mm). Tinted lithographic title and 25 plates after Atkinson, lithographic dedication, printed list of plates and final advertisement leaf. (Some leaves slightly spotted, some discolouration.) Contemporary morocco-backed cloth (rubbed).
Atkinson, a doctor by training and an accomplished Persian scholar, had accompanied the army of the Indus on its march to Kabul and returned to Bengal in 1841 before the massacre of the army of occupation. These illustrations were to accompany his narrative of the journey into what was then a little-known country. Abbey Travel 508.