CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO PERSIA AND AFGHANISTAN.
PALMERSTON, Viscount.
Published by London J. Harrison & Son, 1839
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FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM 1839. 8vo, approximately 220 x 140 mm, 8¾ x 5 inches, pages: xi, 524, bound in full modern green morocco, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, floral gilt decoration with gilt dividing rules and blind scroll to borders of covers, new endpapers, housed in a plain green cloth slipcase. Some occasional light foxing otherwise a very good handsome copy. Originally published as Parliamentary Papers. First part has no number: Correspondence relating to Persia and Afghanistan; followed by No.1, Indian Papers, Copy of the Treaty with Runjeet Sing and Shah Shooja-Ool-Moolk, concluded at Lahore, 26 June 1838; No.2, Indian Papers. Treaties; No.3, Indian Papers. Expedition of Shah Shooja-Ool-Moolk into Afghanistan, and treaty between the Shah and Runjeet Sing; No.4, Indian Papers. Correspondence relating to Afghanistan; No.5, Indian Papers. Correspondence relating to Afghanistan; No.6, Correspondence relating to Afghanistan; No.7, Indian Papers, correspondence relating to the occupation of Karrak; Unnumbered: Court of Directors of the East India company to the Governor-General of India, in Council. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 47812
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Title: CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO PERSIA AND ...
Publisher: London J. Harrison & Son
Publication Date: 1839
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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Correspondence Relating to Persia and Affghanistan [ Afghanistan ]
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Seller: Dendera, London, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Recent gilt-titled brown library cloth 15 x 22cm. xi + 524pp. Ex-university library copy with paper label to spine, and stamps to endpapers and title page (including "Discard" stamp). Covers otherwise near fine with bump to top edge of lower board. Interiors mostly near fine except for marks to some margins, and part of first section a little loose. "Correspondence Relating to Persia and Affghanistan is a compilation of documents concerning British policy toward these two countries, published in London at the time of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42). The volume includes, for example, dispatches sent to the British foreign secretary, Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), by British diplomats in Saint Petersburg and Teheran; Palmerston's replies; the texts of treaties concluded by the East India Company with the shah of Persia, the amirs of Sind, and other parties; correspondence between Dost Mohammad Khan (1793-1863), ruler of Afghanistan, and the governor-general of India; and reports concerning Afghanistan by Sir Alexander Burnes, political officer in India and Afghanistan, to Governor-General of India Lord Auckland. One section of the book documents the expedition of Shah Shuja (1785-1842), ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809, into Afghanistan in 1833-34 and his attempt to reclaim the throne in collaboration with Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ruler of the Punjab. Shah Shuja was defeated by Afghan forces at Kandahar under Dost Mohammad Khan. The First Anglo-Afghan War began four years later, when the British sent an Anglo-Indian army into Afghanistan in order to install Shah Shuja, who they perceived as more sympathetic to their interests than Dost Mohammad Khan, as ruler of the country. The documents provide a detailed look at the secret diplomacy that preceded the First Anglo-Afghan War" (Library of Congress / World Digital Library). Seller Inventory # 4100
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