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JACKSON, Sir Keith A.
Views in Affghaunistaun.
In 1839 the Army of the Indus, including Sir Keith Jackson (1798-1843) of the 4th Light Dragoons, sought to replace the pro-Russian Emir of Kabul, Dost Mohammad Khan, with the pro-British Shah Shuja. The Khyber Pass was deemed too dangerous as a means of entering Afghanistan, so the Bolan Pass was occupied with the objective of capturing both Kandahar and Ghazni en route to Kabul (where Shah Shuja was to be installed at the palace of Bala Hissar). Following the completion of the Battle of Ghazni, Jackson, a Captain in the 4th Light Dragoons, was granted leave to return to Britain and was able to arrange for the publication of this work. The text contains historical information and topographical description with various lithographed views of Afghanistan and its people.
- Published
- London: W.H. Allen & Co., [1841].
- References
- Abbey Travel II 506; Bobins 259.
- Plates
- 25
- Binding/Size
- L=FOLIO
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: W.H. Allen & Co., [1841].
- Ref
- 5110
FIRST EDITION. Quarto. Hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, tinted lithographed pictorial title with hand-coloured vignette, lithographed dedication, 25 hand -coloured tinted lithographed plates - all loose, as issued, and mounted on card, (lacking map-Route of the Army of the Indus, and plates 9, 10.) 17 II. text, modern wrappers, preserved in a large folio 1/4 brown morocco portfolio with gilt, cloth sides, morocco label to upper cover, and silk ties. Hinges rubbed and worn. Plates of views in and around Cabul and also towards Jellabad. Coloured plates in order: 1. Portrait of an Affghaun. 2. Lithographed title page. 3-4. Kondye, Bolan Pass. 5. Daour. 6. Fort of Bukkur from Roree. 7. Hajee Ka Tau, an Island just above the Fort of Bukkur, on the Indus. 8. Fort of Bukkur, Roree from Sukkur. 9-10. [plates missing]. 11. Island on the Indus, just below Bukkur. 12. Ruined Gateway of the Ancient Fortress of Sehwaun. 13. Tombs at the burying-ground Workee on the Ghoorla River. 14. Tomb near Tatta. 15. Caubul. 16. North Gate of the Fort of Bukkur. 17. Bala Nissar and palace of the Schah Shoojah-ool-Moulk, Caubul. 18. Part of Jubbur Khan's House, near Caubul. 19. Ruined Tower on the River at Maidaum - army marching. 20. Fort of Ghuznee, from the Candahar Side. 21. Storming of Ghuznee, the Caubul Gate. 22. Abdool Rahmauns Fort. 23. Abdool Rahmauns Fort, after the mines were sprung. 24. Kwettah. 25. Quettah, Candahar Gate. 26. Kandahar, from the South. 27. Kandahar Gate, Kelaat.
