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 /
par M. Mountstuart Elphinstone, ambassadeur d'Angleterre à la cour de Caboul ; traduit et abrégé de l'anglais, par M. Breton ; trois vol. in-18, ornés des quatorze planches gravées au pointillé.

Description

Main Author

Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 1779-1859

Related Names

Breton, (Jean Baptiste Joseph), M., translator.
Imprimerie de Le Normant

Language(s)

French

Published

[Paris] : Imprimerie de Le Normant, rue de Seine, no. 8
Paris : Nepveu, Lib., passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1817.

Subjects

Travel.
Clothing and dress > Clothing and dress / Afghanistan.
Afghanistan > Afghanistan / Kabul (Province)
Afghanistan.
Kabul (Afghanistan : Province) > Kabul (Afghanistan : Province) / History.
Afghanistan > Afghanistan / Description and travel.
Afghanistan > Afghanistan / History.
Hand coloring > Hand coloring / France > Hand coloring / France / 19th century.
Stipple engravings (prints) > Stipple engravings (prints) / France > Stipple engravings (prints) / France / 19th century.
History.

Note

The illustrations are hand colored stipple engravings.
Pagination, v. 1: xliv, 189, [2] pages, [4] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 222, [2] pages, [4] leaves of plates; [4], 223, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates.
Printer from verso of half title page.

Physical Description

3 volumes : color illustrations (engravings) ; 14 cm

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