The races of Afghanistan, being a brief account of the principal nations inhabiting that country
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, and Co.; London: Trubner and Co.; W. Thacker and Co., 1880. First edition, 8vo, [3], 6-124, [2], 38 (Thacker, Spink ads dated May 1880); original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in black and gilt on upper cover and spine, in black only on lower cover; small break at the top of the spine, bookplate of the Boston-Library Society (marked 'cancelled'), and their perforated stamp on the title page (also cancelled), otherwise a near fine, bright, sound and clean copy with no external markings. A preliminary study and the basis for his later An Enquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan (1891). "The author was a medical officer of the East India Company and was employed almost exclusively on the NW-frontier of India, in Kashmir and Afghanistan. In 1857 he was a member of Lumsden's mission to Kandahar, a member of F. Pollock's mission to Sistan in SE. Persia in 1871-72, and finally of Douglas Forsyth's mission to Yarkand in 1873" (Yakushi). Yakushi B271. Item #67455
Price: $750.00
