KAYE, John William.
History of the War in Afghanistan.
History of the War in Afghanistan.
From the unpublished letters and journals of political and military officers employed in Afghanistan throughout the entire period of British connexion with that country.
Stock Code 120772
London, Bentley, 1851.
Sir John William Kaye (1814-1876) served in the British Army in India before returning to Britain and serving in the India Office while producing several great works of contemporary British Indian history of which this was the first.
First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm); armorial bookplates to pastedowns, discreet booksellers ticket to pastedowns; nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards spine in six compartments with gilt morocco lettering piece, all edges speckled, touch of rubbing, a near-fine set; xii, 660; vi, 690pp.
Ghani p201; Yakushi K38.
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