SCOTT, George Batley. Afghan and Pathan. A Sketch. London, The Mitre Press, [1929].
Small 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered and priced in gilt; illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 188, frontispiece and folding map; a few flaws to head and tail of spine of the rarely preserved wrappers, light offsetting from endpapers; otherwise very good.
Very rare first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on half-title of one of the best-informed books on Afghanistan of the time. Scott had entered the Survey of India Department in in 1863, worked in the N.W. Province and Oudh, and served in the Afghan War. This book is based on life-long experience.
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