The Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan

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of Kabul... including the victory and disasters of the British army in Afghanistan.
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MOHAN LAL.

The Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan

The Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan

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of Kabul... including the victory and disasters of the British army in Afghanistan.

Stock Code 111769

London, Longman, 1846.

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Mohan Lal, Kashmiri writer and diplomat, accompanied Sir Alexander Burnes on his mission to Bokhara in 1832 and later served as his political assistant during Burnes' fateful mission to Kabul in 1838.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; 19 lithograph portraits on india paper, light foxing to endpapers, first blank, portrait of Queen Victoria, occasionally elsewhere; contemporary prize binding calf, red and green morocco labels, spines richly gilt, binding lightly rubbed, a very good copy; xviii, [i], 399; vii, [i], 498 pp.

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