Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 1779-1859, An account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India , 1815
- Title(s):
- An account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India : comprising a view of the Afghaun nation, and a history of the Dooraunee monarchy / by the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone.
- Published/Created:
- London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 675 p., [16] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col. ill., maps ; 29 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsDS352 .E47 1815+ Copy 1 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]Rare Books and ManuscriptsDS352 .E47 1815+ Copy 2 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/5404612
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- With aquatint engravings. Some aquatints after Lieut. Robert Melville Grindlay.
Printed by A. Strahan, New-Street-Square, London.
Hiler, H. Bibliography of costume, p. 269
Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, 960
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 504
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in half-calf with marbled boards. Bookplate: Clinton. Copy 2 bound in half black morocco and original (?) brown boards. Includes publisher's advertisements ([4] leaves) tipped in at front. - Subject Terms:
- Afghanistan -- Description and travel.Afghanistan -- History.Afghanistan -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.Clinton -- Bookplate.Clothing and dress -- Afghanistan.Costume -- Afghanistan -- Pictorial works.Kābol (Afghanistan : Province) -- History.Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown -- Publisher.Strahan, A. -- Printer.
- Form/Genre:
- Publisher's advertisements.
Aquatints -- 1815.
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1815. - Export:
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- Contents of the plates: The Chaous Baushee in his dress of Office
- Dooraunee shepherds
- A Hindkee in the winter dress of Peshawer
- An Eusofzye
- An Afghaun of Damaun
- Tope of Maunikyaula
- A Dooraunee villager with his arms
- A Dooraunee gentleman
- A Taujik in the summer dress of Caubul
- A Khawtee, Ghiljie in his summer dress
- A Khojeh of Uzbek Tartary
- A man of the Tymunee Eimauk
- A Hazaurch
- The Umla Baushee in his dress of office
- Caubul [map]
- Kingdom of Caubul [map]
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