Lot 85: Hart, Captain Lockyer Willis. , Character and Costumes of Afghaunistan. London: Henry Graves and Company, 1843

first edition, folio (542 x 365mm.), hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title, lithographed dedication with coloured map of Sinde and Afghanistan on verso, letterpress description of the plates, 26 hand-coloured lithographed plates, most heightened with gum arabic, publisher's advertisement leaf at end, original green morocco-backed cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, some light spotting or stains to blanks or margins, a few margins of plates or interleaving blanks chipped, extremities a very little rubbed

Abbey, Travel 511; Colas 1380; Yakushi (1994) A291

a very good copy. This work includes views of mountain scenery, gorges, passes, portraits and fortresses drawn by Atkinson during the first Afghan war.