ELPHINSTONE, Hon. Mountstuart

"3 vol. in-8vo, xvi, 304 pp ; [viii], 232 pp ; [viii], 331 pp, lacking pp. 305-316 of vol. 1 (supplied in xerox). Engraved title-vignette (Veelwaard). Folding map at the end of vol. 3. Stiff blue-gray paper boards. Dutch translation of Elphinstone's account of his Mission to the Court of Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk, King of Kabul, the first full description of Afghanistan and it's people. Elphinstone was appointed British ambassador to the Afghan court in 1808. We add: J. MacDONALD & W. SOLTAU. Reize door Schotland en de Schotsche Eilanden. Leeuwarden, wed. J.P. de Boij, 1812. 2 vol. in-8vo, Dutch translation from the German. Stiff blue wrappers. (5)"