Elphinstone, Mountstuart

TABLEAU DU ROYAUME DE CABOUL, ET DE SES DÉPENDANCES, DANS LA PERSE, LA TARTARIE ET L'INDE, OFFRANT LES MOEURS, USAGES ET COSTUMES DE CET EMPIRE [THREE VOLUMES]

Paris: Nepveu, 1817. 12mos. 3 volumes; G; bound in contemporary calf, gilt emblem within gilt borders to covers, spine worn, with gilt, two missing labels per spine; moderate rubbing and wear to bindings, tail of spine of volume 2 missing; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; with half-titles; illustrated with 14 colored copper plate engravings, tissue guards; foxing to interiors;

bookplate of the Comte de Moüy to the sfep, verso of ffep with ink note from the Comte de Moüy in French, dated 1860, saying that these volumes were given to his mother in 1828 by the old Count of Erlach, former Swiss Guard to Louis XVI; Robert MacKenzie Waggaman bookplate to front pastedowns; text in French;

shelved case 9.

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Price: $800

NOTES

Charles Louis Stanislas Comte de Moüy (1834-1922) was the French Ambassador to Greece.;

Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. In 1808 he was appointed the first British envoy to the court of Kabul, Afghanistan, with the object of securing a friendly alliance with the Afghans against Napoleon's planned advance on India. He wrote 'Account of the Kingdom of Cabul and its Dependencies in Persia and India,' published in 1815, and here translated.;