Lot 08135

EYRE, Lt. Vincent, “The Military Operations at Cabul, which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British army, January 1842. With a journal of imprisonment in Afghanistan”, London, John Murray, 1843.

8vo, pp. xx,[3], 4-330, [4]. Fold-out frontispiece map. Green cloth with gold and blank impressing. Short tears along the folds of the folding plan, otherwise clean and fine inside. Extensive rubbing and soiling of covers and spine, short split on upper part of the front cover joint. The dramatic incidents of the First Afghan War of 1839-42, described by the eye witness and member of the British forces Lieutenant Vincent Eyre.