At the Court of the Amir

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A Narrative.
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GRAY, John Alfred.

At the Court of the Amir

At the Court of the Amir

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A Narrative.

Stock Code 86374

London, Bentley, 1895

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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.

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.

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